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Aperture Tip – Autostack

Autostack is probably one of the least used features but one that can save you an immense amount of time. If you happen to shoot digital and have the image capture date embedded in all your images for you autostack is an extremely precise tool that you can use at the beginning of your workflow. It doesn’t really matter if you shoot sports, portraits, fashion or landscapes. Unless you are very very different from the rest of us human beings your shots of the same subject with the same...

16 December 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , | 4 Comments
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Aperture 2 Cropping Images

I have explained this technique to speed up your work-flow about a million times over on the Aperture support forums as well as via email. I thought I would post it here hoping it may be helpful to a few readers as well as saving my time from having to re-re-re-rewrite it over and over again. Let’s say you have a project with a bunch of images that you need to crop to a specific aspect ratio. There is a really fast and easy way to do this without...

31 May 2009 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , , , | 4 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 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 Quick Tip – Custom Image Sequence

This tip is really quick and I assume obvious but I still get dozens of questions that somehow are connected to the sequence or order that Aperture displays in the image browser. I mention in the PDF Aperture Organization Guide that it’s easy to use any order that you want for images in the browser, not just the preset orders provided in the drop down list but literally any order that you want. If you have ever used the sort order drop down in the upper left corner of...

28 October 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , | 4 Comments
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Aperture 2 Quick Tip – Workflow Recipie

A quick description of my personal work-flow using Apple Aperture 2. One of the great things about Aperture is it’s flexibility, also a liability when learning how to use it effectively and efficiently. Aperture’s do anything, anywhere, anytime philosophy can also allow you to make a big mess real quick. Here is the front end of my work-flow for every single thing I shoot. The back end is a whole lot different.

28 October 2008 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments
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Aperture2 vs. Lightroom2 – Stacks

Stacks in Aperture2 and Lightroom2 are about the only feature that share some functionality and have the same name. Stacks are a way of grouping similar images together. The images can be various versions of the same image taken in the camera, virtual copies (as termed in LR), versions (same thing but Aperture term), or versions that were modified with an external editor/plug-in. Stacks have the same basic functionality in both applications and can more or less do similar jobs. The magic of stacks comes from their interaction with...

04 October 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Aperture vs Lightroom | , , , , , , , , | 0 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