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Aperture 3 Free HDR Preset
Aperture 3 – Ansel Adams Preset
So where is the download button? Not quite yet. I knew this was going to happen. For you web aware people – look at what searches are really popular. So now we have the Aperture preset market. Yea – I have put a couple of them up for download. Do I charge money for them? But hey traffic=money.
Give people the magic solution they are looking for + a couple bucks + bullshit = income. I should just give up on this and go over to the dark side. I am absolutely sure I could publish a preset every day and get at least $1000 in sales out of it. I am sure – so are other people. Here is the question – should I?
For my own soul’s sake my answer is no. I tried to warn you guys/gals but it seems to be of no avail.
RB
Ps. I have been busy doing things that actually help people – yes I charge money to do it. I have been helping a lot of friends and customers with Aperture 3 conversions. Only one person made the decision to go back to Aperture 2 so far. As soon as I can compose myself I will offer my observations on conversions and doing real intensive work with Aperture 3.
I wiil be happy to have the Ansel presets
Frank,
I honestly hope you are joking – you are, aren’t you?
RB
I have to admit, I’ve downloaded some presets. But they have been free. I have been getting a kick out of some of the BW presets out there that are simply Aperture 3 BW settings with hardly a tweak, then given a fancy old school film-type name or even something more pretentious like “Midnight Moonlight on the Caribbean”….huh?
I want the Edward Weston preset, please. And after that, the Carlton Watkins one. And then maybe Atget…
Oh my god – I was working on the Avedon preset. Sorry let me switch.
RB
Oh yeah, Daguerreotype…
Come on, man, hop to it!
RB,
There might also be a market for images on which to apply the presets thus saving the time & energy needed go go out and make one’s own. A KIT so to speak.
But that stuff aside, I have just spent tha last week or so attempting to get Aperture 3 running on my 2 machines.
It worked firat shot on my MacPro, and was an utter disaster on my MBP. I have tried every suggested solution and still can only get it to run successfully in 32 bit mode on the MBP.
In a moment of frustration, I googled “Aperture 3 Disaster” and was greeted with MANY pages of responses.
Apple seriously dropped the ball here.
I’m sure we will see a v.3.0.1 that fixes the issues that affected so many people. But who tested this release?
So rather than the Ansel Adams preset, I would love to see some of the ways that you have helped people resolve the Aperture issues here on these pages. Because once we get beyond these install or library issues, there seems to be a great deal to be excited about in A3.
I’d also suggest a place where we could post issues for your consideration as topics for a post:
For example they seem to have changed their file naming convention with respect to versions.
If I have a project and import 1 file, Aperture has always displayed a “null version” representing the unedited master.
If I edit that image Aperture would always create Version 2 indicating that it was changed. Then V 3, Very helpful.
A3 now calls the unedited one version 2 and makes the changed one the “Null version” ???
Why on earth would they do that and ruin the perfect analogy to the darkroom where your Negative (Master) was inviolet and you could make as many different Versions as you like.
Is it possible to go back to the old way?
Or with A3′s new capabilities what changes in workflow have become possible, and which do you recommend ??
No one seems to know Aperture better than you do, and I really think your insights would be very much appreciated.
Thanks, Michael
Damn. You mean I can’t just buy a $499.99 plugin from ShamzRUs and have all of my photos come out like Ansel Adams? And here I thought Aperture 3 was powerful! Maybe I should go back to MS Paint!
In all seriousness, though, RB, have you received a decent enough sampling of D90 NEF files to take a stab at that platform? If not, what kind of photos are most helpful to help out? Thanks!
RB,
Income is where you find it. Check out Rockwell’s site. That’s internet photography for profit and that ain’t you.
I could really care less about presets, although I would experiment with one for a D700 if you made one available.
I agree with Michael in that there are bigger tasks to tackle and you really are the best at doing just that. It’s what led me to your site, what keeps me here, and why I’m enthusiastic about supporting it in whatever way that I can.
They’ll be plenty of presets all over the internet, but there will be few places for real answers.
Whether you charge or not, I am very grateful for your D200 presets. I am actually not that huge of fan of the Nikon “look” but I am very grateful to have it as an option.
More to the point, I want to play with what you have done with the color controls – a subject about which I know nothing.
And having a lot of 30 year old Agfa slides, I need to start learning.
Thank you again!
I say, be your own hero.
RB, I understand your point of view, and I’d be willing to pay a price for your presets just like I do for plenty of other stuff (cs actions, LR presets http://www.cubagallery.co.nz/ ..etc)… price range is important but I guess the point is to always give back
Contact me if you are willing to sell ansel presets(previews would be appreciated before )
regards
In follow up to Paul K’s post I have plenty of D90 NEFs. I would be happy to add some to the collection if needed. Lots of ones of Water sports and loads from SE Asia in the summer.
Ashley.
I’m having such an awful time going from Aperture 2 to 3
Fuck you, asshole, as your arrorgant fucking attitude.
Rick,
Sort of an inside joke that has been running here for about 2 years. Sorry you are offended I really didn’t mean to offend anyone but seems like it got under your skin. Sorry ’bout that.
Well actually I am not really sorry it is more of a multiple choice:
A) If you are a purveyor of such worthless nonsense then fuck you scammer.
B) If you are in search of magic fairy dust and are offended by me calling it out – fuck you as well.
C)If for some reason you took offense for some other reason that has nothing to do with Aperture and LR “presets” having NO value that take NO work to develop or crank out – then I truly did not mean to offend you and I am sorry.
RB