Anybody that cares to offer an opinion or vote please do so. i just put up another test on YouTube. The question I have is if the 720p quality at full screen is “good enough” to see what is going on in the screen cast video for mini Aperture tutorials? The other question I had is the pacing – I am trying to go slow enough so that you can see what is going on but not too too slow. I set this one to a song so that...
An Aperture user over on the Apple discussion board wanted a way to print out “crops” of a single picture so that you you could print them out on 4×6 inch paper and paste them together to make a big picture. I interpreted this as an “art” project so I suggested the Aperture Book tool. Instead of explaining it I just did a little tiny video. Actually if I were doing this I would probably zoom the images a bit and skew them as well just so when I...
I am extremely selective in the previews that I have Aperture generate. For the most part it consists of my top rated images and maybe some other stuff that I use regularly. If you have read some of my work-flow posts or file management eBooks you should know how to control Aperture previews in a lot of different ways. I thought I would share something that I found obvious but surprised a friend of mine the other day when he saw me doing it. The first thing is that...
Here is the big news. I will be offering a new service to help readers that need a little more specific or intensive assistance than a blog comment or an email. A dozen or so people have asked me for this kind of assistance and I have been hesitant to provide it. Actually I have provided it for free. Rather than doing it on a hit or miss basis, trying to schedule it around my “real” business I have decided to offer it as a service integrated into my...
Yep, The site is white. It’s not you – you did not die and this is some ghostly experience. Something big is coming and it’s coming tomorrow. Am I talking about Aperture 3? Well maybe we’ll get Aperture 3 tomorrow but this is not quite that big and it is coming tomorrow. It may not be big to you but it is big for me. It is a commitment from me to offer a couple of services that are very related to Aperture as well as some other topics...
I just went through an exercise with a reader that was doing all his RAW NEF conversions in Capture One Pro prior to importing into Aperture because the RAW conversion was so much “better”. The reality is that Aperture RAW processing is really really good. It just is neutral/flat out of the camera and juiced way way up by default without doing anything “out of the box” with Capture One Pro. Really. Personally I think the default Capture One Pro settings for “film curve” and the default sharpening and...
Okay – so I have been like a whining baby that last few days. Let me say a couple of positive things about Apple Aperture as we are winding the week down. The first thing that I want to say is that in my opinion it is still the best photographic tool in it’s class by a large margin. This doesn’t mean that it cannot stand some room for improvement. It can but… Aperture blows the living crap out of anything else out there in terms of an organizational...
Well, I guess we might still see it soon. Maybe? Not today. I will keep plugging away at my old Aperture. I will have to buy one of the tablets just to console myself. Maybe it will out by the time the tablets are actually available. Who knows but this is getting ridiculous. Well, it’s really not so bad – it could be way worse, like if I had to use Lightroom or something. That is still a fate that I do not want to befall us all. Don’t...
Based on super secret research of my own and jumping to a lot of conclusions I really really think Aperture 3 is here – or will be maybe tomorrow. Here is the scoop. As many of you know I am about the only Aperture guy that actually participates in the Apple forums in any regular or frequent way. The other guys are mercenary and will not help anyone if they are not getting paid. Forget that for a moment, I don’t want to rant too much. Anyway – over...
While we are anxiously waiting to see if Aperture 3 will pop out somewhere in the midst of all the iTablet hoopla this week, I thought I would offer a small tip for your current Aperture workflow. This is one that is obvious once you hear it but can be extremely frustrating if you “expect” Aperture to work differently than it actually does. As long time users know one of the secrets to using Aperture effectively is taking full advantage of the way Aperture stacks, albums, and album picks...
