A few weeks ago a question from a new Aperture users came up on the Apple Aperture Support forums. The question – “Is there any way to keep notes for a project as a whole” – sort of like meta data for the whole project. My instant reaction was no but another user posted an idea to use a web journal as a way to keep notes about the project. This is a great idea and I refined it a little bit and posted another response – How about...
Sorry for the long time away from the site, one of those busy weeks. Well on with the show. I received way more feedback and questions on my last Aperture quick tip regarding using books for project notes than I would have ever expected. A lot of the feed back was related to using Aperture books for services other than Apple’s book printing service. After responding to a bunch of very specific questions in email I thought it might be useful to provide a more general overview of how...
WARNING – This tip is not for the feint of heart, it’s more for those that like to tinker with things and are not satisfied with the state of affairs with the Aperture Books feature. I have received so many emails regarding a couple of the Aperture book articles that I have posted recently that I decided to publish a work-around for changing the fonts that I use all the time. I actually like some of the predefined book themes that Aperture ships with but… hate the default fonts....
A couple of questions that I received from loyal readers regarding the article on using Aperture books with other printing services has highlighted an unforgivable, gross, glaring omission on my part. Please accept my apologies I skipped a critical piece of information that is pretty obvious considering it’s part of my own PDF rendering scripts that I use with various printing services including blurb.com. I will get right to the point on what that omission is. In the PDF rendering script that I instructed readers to prepare in the...
About every seven minutes a question comes up on the Apple Aperture support forum that boils down to “How do I put text on images using Aperture”. If I happen to see it I usually will try to walk the poor hapless victim through using the Aperture book feature to do it. I felt it might be useful for me to do that here for a couple of reasons. The first being – putting text on images with Aperture, the second and probably more important is perhaps getting people...
Just wanted to share a tidbit regarding Aperture hardcover book titles that another reader and I worked on via email last week. I took a couple of guesses about the strange and opaque process that happens after clicking “buy book” and my new online buddy Florian came up with a work-around for his issue that I thought was really cool.
A long long time ago I put up a couple of posts about a couple of ways to use Aperture’s easy to use but completely undocumented book layout tool for just about any book printing service. I guess all of a sudden these services have become far more popular and hence I have receive a bunch of questions specifically related to blurb.com and Aperture. Instead of trying to recap all of the information exchanged I am just going to give a couple of guidelines to help point people interested...
I cannot believe that this subject is so popular. I also cannot believe that so many people are so paranoid of an sRGB output. I guess I am glad to see a lot of interest in printing and I think both Apple books and Blurb.com are a fantastic way to showcase your work – far better than just jamming them up on the web. Let me get to the point – I have made blurb books from Aperture and I am pretty certain based on my experience with a...
Been doing a lot of correspondence lately with some poor souls that are lost in the evil wilderness between color management hocus-pocus, the bizarre alternate reality that is Aperture printing behavior, and Blurb.com. I hope that I didn’t come off sounding dismissive of good color management practices or someone that thinks sRGB is the end all be all. I am not and have been dealing with end to end color management since the dark ages when it was “hard”. Most of the time color management should be easy nowadays...
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...
