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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 3 – New Screencast – Faces

Okay – so here is something that might surprise you. I am actually using Faces – not to the extent that Matthew Bergsma is – check him out but I am using it none the less. I still thing Apple has a lot of work to do with the UI but here are my suggestions on some of the ways to use Faces most effectively. I did this screencast the same day that I did stacks and albums – I decided to release it a little later because I...

26 March 2010 | Apple Aperture, Site News | , , , , , | 1 Comment
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Aperture 3 – Show In Project

It’s a little thing but a big time saver for me. If you haven’t used it yet you should definitely check out the new “Show In Project” function that Aperture 3 has added. It shows up in the right click context menu and the File menu when you are looking at an image anywhere but in the project where it lives. It saves me so much time that I made a shortcut key for it. Even if I know what project an image belongs to it is so much...

19 February 2010 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , | 5 Comments
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Aperture 3 – Tip Search By Album Name

While taking in all of the new Aperture 3 juicy goodness – and there is a lot of it – there are a few things that some of you might be scratching your heads about. Not in confusion of how it works – that is easy – but more like “why bother”. One of the new features – the search box in the project inspector is fantastic and the “why” is obvious if you have more than a couple of projects. Some of the other “little” features by comparison...

16 February 2010 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , | 2 Comments
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Aperture 3 – New Project Import Export And Merging

I am going to assume people that need this can find the menu items themselves so I am not going to repeat the documentation. I am also not going to walk through every combination of possible work-flow and connect all the dots that can be connected. I will leave that for the Aperture 3 File Management eBook update. Instead I am going to give a couple observations that maybe helpful after beating Aperture 3 over the head with some of my work-flows. In a nut shell the new functionality...

13 February 2010 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , , , , | 12 Comments
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Aperture 3 RAW+JPG Part Deux

The other day I was complaining about some of the new Aperture 3 “features”. One of those being the changes to the way Aperture handles RAW+JPG. I wanted to post an update to the old workflow suggestion that I had with the Aperture 3 equivalent. I also wanted to clarify some of my earlier comments as they were terse and not fully articulated. I think the new import options are fantastic. Having the option to import them together, together but as separate masters, or even just the JPEGs and...

11 February 2010 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , | 5 Comments
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Aperture Tip – Zoom vs Loupe

Until we see Aperture 3 I am going to try to get all you Aperture fans “ready” by trying to give you some useful stuff that you may not know or may not have thought about in the version that we all have right now. For some of you it might be a whole lot like getting a new version. This is a quick one covering something obvious but there are a couple of little hints in here that even you experts might have missed. As you know I...

02 February 2010 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , , | 17 Comments
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Aperture Tip – Previews

I am extremely selective in the previews that I have Aperture generate. For the most part it consists of my top rated images and maybe some other stuff that I use regularly. If you have read some of my work-flow posts or file management eBooks you should know how to control Aperture previews in a lot of different ways. I thought I would share something that I found obvious but surprised a friend of mine the other day when he saw me doing it. The first thing is that...

31 January 2010 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments
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Aperture – Something Nice To Say

Okay – so I have been like a whining baby that last few days. Let me say a couple of positive things about Apple Aperture as we are winding the week down. The first thing that I want to say is that in my opinion it is still the best photographic tool in it’s class by a large margin. This doesn’t mean that it cannot stand some room for improvement. It can but… Aperture blows the living crap out of anything else out there in terms of an organizational...

28 January 2010 | Apple Aperture, Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , , | 29 Comments
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Aperture Workflow Tip – Album Picks

While we are anxiously waiting to see if Aperture 3 will pop out somewhere in the midst of all the iTablet hoopla this week, I thought I would offer a small tip for your current Aperture workflow. This is one that is obvious once you hear it but can be extremely frustrating if you “expect” Aperture to work differently than it actually does. As long time users know one of the secrets to using Aperture effectively is taking full advantage of the way Aperture stacks, albums, and album picks...

26 January 2010 | Apple Aperture, Articles | , , , , , , , | 0 Comments
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