This is for our friend Paul. He asked for some starting points for the D2H in Aperture so here are a few to get started. Just as a note – the D2H has perennially been one of the most difficult NEF files to dial-in due to continuous bizarre but subtle white balance issues in Aperture. This has been true since Aperture V1 but has improved over time. I have to say somewhere in the last few updates I could swear it got better but why? I think myself and...
After some pestering and cajoling from persistent readers and iBuddysâ„¢ about doing some Aperture related product reviews I finally will give it a whirl. I thought why not start with the hardest, Nik Color EFX Pro. It’s not hard to use, hard to understand, or hard to copy and paste a list of all of the stuff it does from another source. Heck it’s not even hard to make example images for each and every one of its filters. I guess the hard thing for me is to figure...
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...
Well, not really seven, it’s just a title that I like to use pertaining to a couple of things that you can do that really bog down Aperture’s performance. After some encouragement from a new found iFriend Michael I have decided to wade into the murky and treacherous waters of managing performance in Aperture. To kick things off I thought that I would highlight the obvious (or not). Just one little “your mileage may vary” type of disclaimer first – remember that this kind of stuff is highly variable...
As anybody that reads this blog knows I rarely post any articles that relate to image adjustments. The reason for this is that I feel the web is chock full of how-to sites regarding image manipulation. Some good and some not so good. While I will continue to post mainly work-flow related articles I wanted to depart just a little bit and post something on a set of adjustment features contained in Aperture that I feel is superior and far more accessible than other products. Not only that but...
