Archives / 2009 / February

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Aperture Quick Tip – File Status

In response to a couple of questions that I received regarding the Aperture File Management post from a week or so back I thought that I would share a quick tip for those struggling to get their Aperture libraries beaten into submission. If you have more than a couple of images Aperture’s search tools are a god send. One of the concepts that I mentioned briefly in the File Management post was that you could use any criteria that you would like to create a selection to subsequently use...

15 February 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment
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Aperture Quick Tip – Lift and Stamp

A real quick tip for those of you that have not used the lift and stamp tools a lot. As everyone probably knows lift allows you to lift adjustments and metadata from one image and then stamp it to one or more images that you select after doing the “lift”. I thought a brief discussion on some of the more subtle behaviors of this tool might be valuable if you haven’t yet explored beyond and all or nothing approach to lifting and stamping. First off realize that you do...

08 February 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , | 5 Comments
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Lions and Tigers and Bears

My oh my. For the first time ever the email volume of questions, suggestions, requests, and reprisals has outstripped my capacity to answer them in a timely manner. What shall I do, I guess I will work hard this weekend to get through them. I thought work-flow and organization and efficiency was a boring topic. I thought that simple things were simple. I tried to stay away from the “how to make a flat image pop” but here in the back corner of the internet there does seem to...

07 February 2009 | Site News | , , , | 3 Comments
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Free Plugin Alert – Picasa

I am not a big user of google picasa but if you are you may be interested in this brand spanking new plugin. The best news it’s free. Farily similar to the free version of the Flickr upload plugin for Aperture. Without further adieu the download is here I cannot really vouch for it’s flexibility or utility as I have not had much experience with it yet. I believe it came into existance about two days ago and I have just downloaded it and played with it today. Enjoy...

03 February 2009 | Site News | , , , | 0 Comments