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Aperture 3 – Flags and Labels

One of the features introduced with Aperture 3 that I pretty much ignored was flags and labels. I ignored them because I’ve been there and done that with a pile of other software since the beginning of time. Not that there is anything inherently bad or wrong with these two devices, it’s just that I developed better ways of doing things since I started using Aperture – way way back in ancient times. By and large I “flag” and “label” things in my work-flow by grouping them together in...

06 August 2010 | Apple Aperture | , , , , , | 5 Comments
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Random Photography Thoughts of The Week

You may know that I don’t gush over equipment often. In fact I know I have too much “stuff” so even though there are a few lust items – mostly ridiculous things that I have wanted since my youth like that giant ParaFB. Take it seriously when I say that there is a lens I have come across that has my attencion. The image at the top was made by a friend of mine, you can tell because it is outside and not 10 feet away from my front...

16 July 2010 | General Photography | , , , , , | 22 Comments
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Aperture 3 – Labels

There were three things on the enormous Aperture 3 feature list that caused me some excitement at first glance. they are probably not what you are thinking, they were color labels along with the ability to read and write IPTC metadata to image masters. This probably does not sound too too exciting but for me it was, and it should have been to a lot of others. After using Aperture 3 for quite some time, actually almost immediately my excitement waned somewhat. It is sort of a glass is...

08 July 2010 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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Aperture – Renaming Files After You Import

A lot of photographers out there depend on a file naming convention for their work-flow. They also depend on version names in Aperture tying back to that unique file name of the master image. Don’t ask me why this is such a big big deal for some photographers work-flow. I don’t really get it but accept it as necessary for some Aperture users. Some Aperture users have this all figured out and they have their work-flow down and wrapped up. Others don’t and have a “big issue” with Aperture...

26 December 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment
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Aperture – Fun With Metadata

If you have been diligently adding your keywords, captions, location information, and other metadata using Aperture (or Lightroom, or Photo Mechanic, or any other photo browser for that matter) as you know it can be very useful for finding images fast. Even if you haven’t been so disciplined adding your own metadata there are still some interesting and fun things you can do with Aperture on a crappy Saturday afternoon if you are not inspired to go out and shoot. Let’s assume that you have not been that diligent...

02 June 2009 | Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , | 3 Comments
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The Next Aperture?

I have resisted writing a post like this for quite a while. Mostly due to the fact that there are plenty of sources of complaints, wishlists, and prognostications about Aperture’s features, what it needs, and how it should or shouldn’t work. Somehow I feel like the sole Aperture cheerleader out there and am feeling a little lonely. Today I am going to vent a bit about what I feel Aperture needs. I am not going to do this from a how can we sell more copies perspective or repeat...

25 May 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , | 9 Comments
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Aperture Quick Tip – File Status

In response to a couple of questions that I received regarding the Aperture File Management post from a week or so back I thought that I would share a quick tip for those struggling to get their Aperture libraries beaten into submission. If you have more than a couple of images Aperture’s search tools are a god send. One of the concepts that I mentioned briefly in the File Management post was that you could use any criteria that you would like to create a selection to subsequently use...

15 February 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment
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Aperture Quick Tip – Lift and Stamp

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...

08 February 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , | 5 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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Aperture 2 vs. Lightroom 2 – Keywords

After much clamoring from loyal readers here is another installment of Aperture v. Lightroom round 9.7. I will try to tackle key-wording (is that a word now?) as quickly and painlessly as possible. First off some quick bottom line kinds of things and then some details. Both applications are so far and away better than older tools that we won’t even bother to compare them. If you are using either of these and not tagging your images with keywords you should be ashamed of yourself or something. Aperture introduced...

25 November 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Aperture vs Lightroom | , , , , , , , | 8 Comments
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