Comments on: Aperture 2 Quick Tip – Highlights and Shadows

By: RB

RB — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:26:29 +0000

To all those that asked via email…

Yes I did also apply a vignette. Anything else no. Highlight recovery, H&S, vignette. That is it. There is still the ringer out there I will give you a hint it’s number three.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:30:27 +0000

RB,
Re New Look
I think it’s excellent, with the sole exception of Type Size.
I’m viewing it on a 17″ MBP with native resolution of 1200 x 1920 so it may be my problem.
2 clicks of the “make it bigger” button in Safari and I’m fine. Just FYI

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:54:51 +0000

Marek,
I have had those same problems and I use a Mac Pro with 11 GB Ram & an 8800GT.
At RB’s suggestion I’ve left sharpening to the end of the workflow and followed his advice on managing previews, and it has helped a great deal.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:47:17 +0000

Robert,
I love the article. It is exactly the kind of thing we need more of, in addition I like the organization of the articles. Because they are relatively short and to the point, it makes an easy reference for specific actions.
I also love the HDR comparison,while I’ve seen some subtle HDR stuff that is breathtakingly beautiful, most seems way overdone to my eye.
I’d like to see you pursue the topic further, perhaps even looking at Aperture plug ins like Hydra.

By: Marek

Marek — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:25:34 +0000

Robert,
Another great article. I did mess with this brick before but never got any great results. Maybe because I never used the advanced sliders. Unfortunately, after applying even the slightest adjustment in H&S the loupe becomes almost unusable. When panning it jumps around the picture with a 2 second lag instead of moving smoothly. Same applies when panning in the zoom view. Somebody suggested it may be due to my iMac’s configuration. However, recently I tired this on a Mac Pro in my local apple shop and the result was identical. This machine was equipped with 8GB ram and GeForce 8800 GT. Just wondering has any of you guys experienced anything similar.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:13:18 +0000

I love the tag cloud maybe a little bigger though.

Craig

By: RB

RB — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:23:02 +0000

Craig,

ooops almost forgot – sorry you could not find it, maybe my little tag cloud at the bottom is cool looking but not real user friendly for those actually looking for something.

Just do a search on NEF and you should get there to the couple that are out there.

By: RB

RB — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:05:55 +0000

Hey you regulars –

One other thing – I was expecting some kind of “I hate this new look” or “Cool” or “The navigation sucks where did my tags go” on the new layout. Strange. Maybe it looks too much like it did before?

Ps. I do have a cool new navigation thing following along it’s just more work than I anticipated.

By: RB

RB — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:43:06 +0000

Pedro,

As always – great to hear from you and great suggestion regarding the levels with “extras” vs. curves. Give me a bit to think about how to articulate it in a meaningful way.

Would love to see what you come up with when you play with my crappy image. Always fun and educational to let others screw with your stuff in post – I wonder why we don’t see more of it? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could see everyone’s stuff (or at least some of it) before it were washed, ironed, and dried!

By: RB

RB — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:39:32 +0000

Richard,

Cool – I was hoping that somebody would find it useful. I actually revised this post about 45 times cutting out a ton of blabbering regarding the advanced sliders and going for the HDR-like demonstration with a tiny little bit on the halos instead. I was actually expecting a bunch of questions like – “what the f*** you didn’t say much about each of the advanced sliders – what the heck do they do?”

and…

I feel your pain on the lack of word on Aperture but look at it this way, the only reason we feel this way is that there are a couple of really cool things in LR2 so us Aperture leaning people can’t look down at the LR crowd so much right now. Sort of like Nikon folk prior to the D3/D700 we were sure our stuff was cool – heck we make great photos with it but… there was the little bit of “I want something that is obviously way cooler than your stuff feeling” Don’t worry – it will come – for now just do good work and make cool images with what you got!