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.
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Don’t do many galleries here or for that matter anywhere else. I am experimenting with flickr and flickr integration with WordPress. The last thing I feel like doing is maintaining 62 photo galleries all over the web-o-chaos in addition to real paying jobs so I thought I would share a weird little side project that I have been working on and may actually finish sooner or later.
