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Aperture Quick Tip – Project Recovery

I really should title this tip something more like “Quick and Dirty Project Recovery When You Are In a Bind” or something like that. If you ever find yourself in the unenviable position of being on a tight deadline for a wedding, story, commercial client, whatever and you have a problem accessing your Aperture library you only have a few options that are supported by Apple. Option one – recover your entire library from a vault, time machine backup, or other backup if you have one (and you should).

09 November 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , | 8 Comments
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Aperture Quick Tip – Blue Folders and Projects

If you create a folder while clicked on the library (or another blue folder) you get a blue folder. You can group projects together inside a blue folder as well as other blue folders. That’s pretty evident but one of the other things that you can do is create other things like smart albums inside a blue folder that are not inside any one project. The really cool thing about smart albums in a blue folder is that the search criteria is restricted to only the projects that are...

19 September 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , | 5 Comments
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Aperture Quick Tip – Stack Mode

As I have mentioned in a couple of my PDF’s on Aperture, I make extensive use of stacks. Not just for Album picks or multiple takes on the same image as discussed in my previous quick tip but to help get to my “selects” when I have shot many variations of the same subject. Here is how Apertures stack mode helps me do that.

17 September 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , | 7 Comments
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Aperture 2 Organization Tip – More On Stacks and Albums

One of the concepts that I emphasize in the organization eBook is how useful the simple album is in combination with stacks due to the capability of each and every album to have it’s very own album pick that behaves as the only image version in the stack when the stack is closed. I gave two quick examples of creating an album for 8×10 crops and another for black and white conversions. In my Aperture workflow I almost always group similar images into a stack, then make the best...

16 September 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , | 0 Comments