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Why Shoot RAW

I have received a bunch of feedback on a couple of articles regarding NEF processing in Aperture. More than a few were questioning the value of shooting RAW files at all if the camera does such a good job processing JPG files with in camera settings. I thought that I would share a couple of my thoughts on this along with a contrived example for the non-believers out there. With storage costs being so idiotically inexpensive and generally huge when compared with real world numbers of still images that...

18 January 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , | 14 Comments
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Aperture 2 Quick Tip – Shooting RAW+JPG

This little tidbit is probably available in a bunch of different places but I thought I would post it here because it comes up in the Apple support forums so often, I get asked about it a bunch, and as someone highlighted the Apple Aperture documentation is extremely esoteric on the matter. If you have a Canon or Nikon DSLR you probably have the option to shoot RAW+JPG. This is pretty cool given that you can have your cake and eat it to. RAWs for post processing and a...

14 January 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , | 12 Comments
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Aperture Book Tricks

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...

13 January 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , | 0 Comments
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Aperture – The Seven Deadly Sins

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...

10 January 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles, Lighting, Site News | , , , , , , | 6 Comments
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Aperture 2 Quick Tip – Highlights and Shadows

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...

07 January 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , | 18 Comments
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Aperture 2 Quick Tip – Managing Previews

Previews are one of the most misunderstood and notoriously undocumented things in Aperture. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about what you can and cannot do when you have referenced masters that are off-line, as in all of your masters are on external drives and your library with previews happens to be on your laptop while you are away. Previews make some of the functionality that I mentioned possible. Understanding how to manage previews within Aperture is essential to effectively managing storage, performance, and functionality. Unfortunately...

03 January 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , | 22 Comments
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Aperture 2 Quick Tip – Album Picks and Image Versions

As I have mentioned on about a thousand or so occasions Aperture’s ability to have a different image or image version show up on top of a stack for each and every album that you create is a huge benefit to developing an efficient work-flow. For those of you that are unfamiliar with albums and album picks you may want to take a look at the organization PDF. One of the features that I use all the time is the fact that new versions created in the context of...

27 December 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , | 6 Comments
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Aperture 2 and NEF RAW Recipies

A quick follow up to the NEF matching post from a few days ago. Even though there were about 700 (exaggeration) downloads of the NEF files that I posted only one person shared their recipe and it was pretty close. As promised here is my recipe for the D2H/s. The recipe that follows will vary a little based on the light temperature that you shoot with, your camera’s white balace setting and obviously the specific Nikon that you shoot with as well as your in camera settings/picture control settings....

24 December 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , | 19 Comments
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Aperture 2 Quick Tip – Books With Any Service Update

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...

20 December 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , | 10 Comments
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Aperture 2 Quick Tip – Referenced Masters and Previews

If you have been using Aperture for more than a little while, especially on a laptop you may be struggling with storage space issues. Referenced masters to the rescue – sort of. For the readers not familiar with referenced masters a brief review is in order. With Aperture there are two options for storing the image files that you import. Option one – the default – is called managed masters. Using managed masters Aperture copies your precious original image files into it’s mysterious secret abyss never to be seen...

14 December 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments
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