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Bill Frakes and AUPN at the Apple Store SoHo
I attended a presentation by sports photographer Bill Frakes last night at the Apple Store SoHo in New York City. The event was presented by the Aperture Users Professional Network (AUPN), a user association and advocate group that supports photographers... read more
A Very Portable Digital Portfolio
One of the best things about digital photography is that it's made distributing our photos so much easier. Print at home with no chemicals needed; post on the Web; burn to DVD. How about carrying your entire portfolio with you... read more
Pro Labs at the West 14th Street Apple Store
December 10 2007
On Friday, Apple unveiled the new West 14th Street store, its largest store in Manhattan. I had a chance to check out the store yesterday and though at this point we expect Apple stores to be impressive, this one really... read moreDecember 03 2007
I recently rediscovered a useful feature of Aperture that slipped my mind a long time ago: the Edit AutoFill List menu command. A few months ago, I imported a bunch of photos from a business trip to Chicago and in... read moreNovember 26 2007
Here’s a tip for all the Aperture users who have iPhones: when you find a snapshot of a friend or colleague in your photo library, take a quick second to add it to their contact card in Address Book. Then... read moreNovember 19 2007
One scenario where I still regularly make trips from Aperture to Photoshop is when I need to use Photoshop’s Healing Brush tool. Aperture’s Spot and Patch tool does a fine job of removing unwanted dust and imperfections from photographs, but... read moreiMovie 08 for Video Slideshows
November 12 2007
I’ve been really enjoying using my Aperture library to create video slideshows with iMovie 08. I wrote about using the previous version of iMovie for this back in July, but I’ve finally gotten around to spending more time with the... read moreFull Screen Mode + Spaces = Amazing
November 05 2007
Prior to Leopard, when I needed to switch between Aperture and another application, I always used a variation on basically the same technique: Launch Aperture. When I needed to switch to another app, press Command-H to hide Aperture. If necessary,... read moreExtending Aperture with iLife and iWork Presentation
November 01 2007
Just a quick shameless self-promotion: I'll be leading a free presentation entitled "Extending Aperture with iLife '08 and iWork '08" at the Apple Store SoHo on Thursday night, November 1 at 6:30 p.m. If you're in the New York City... read moreBlack-and-white with Aperture and the Epson 3800
October 29 2007
Last week, I had a chance to sit down and chat with fellow Aperture trainer and Apple certified Color Management consultant Peter Stroumtsos. Peter has been making some really nice black and white prints using Aperture and his Epson Stylus... read moreOctober 22 2007
Derrick wrote a nice tip on his personal site about using Adobe Camera Raw to correct mixed lighting and it reminded me that I’ve been meaning to share a tip about how to deal with this issue in Aperture. Whether... read moreOctober 15 2007
I was working with a client recently who had been struggling with getting consistent color from his photos in Aperture. Like many other digital photography enthusiasts I’ve talk to over the years, he was mystified by color management, and had... read moreRestoring Back to Aperture's Default Preferences
October 08 2007
I frequently teach Aperture workshops and I often end up running my presentation and demos from the same MacBook Pro that I use as my everyday workstation. This makes it easy to prepare for workshops, but it can introduce some... read moreImage Tooltips and an External Editor Refresher
September 22 2007
I’ve been teaching introductory Aperture courses lately, so I thought I’d share some tips based on questions I’ve been hearing again and again. Last weekend at an AUPN workshop in Dallas I had three students ask the same question: how... read moreSeptember 14 2007
There was some exciting Pro App news from Apple this week: after almost 3 years, Logic Pro has been updated to version 8. Among the feature updates in this version is what Apple calls a “Next Generation Interface”. This is... read moreSeptember 08 2007
Over the last few months, I’ve written several posts about Aperture’s seamless integration with iLife and iWork via the iLife Media Browser. A few weeks ago I posted about using your Aperture photos with iWork’s Pages to create print layouts... read moreImporting Folders of Images from the Finder
August 31 2007
At an Aperture class I taught last weekend, one of my students was considering using Aperture as a tool to organize his large scanned image library. He had already scanned thousands of photos and organized them into folders within folders... read moreUsing Pages to Do More with Your Photos
August 24 2007
With the recent release of iLife 08 and iWork 08, I thought I’d spend a little time sharing how I use Pages to create layouts with my photographs. I’ve been using Pages as my full-time word processor for a long... read moreAugust 16 2007
I just returned to New York after a great trip traveling in and around Santiago, Chile. Whenever I’ve traveled abroad before, I’ve always taken photos and processed them in Aperture upon my return home. For this trip however, I wanted... read moreAugust 16 2007
I just returned to New York after a great trip traveling in and around Santiago, Chile. Whenever I’ve traveled abroad before, I’ve always taken photos and processed them in Aperture upon my return home. For this trip however, I wanted... read moreAperture Seminars: Both Online and In Person
July 28 2007
Last week while hunting for some info on Apple.com, I stumbled upon Apple’s online seminars website. This is a great resource of high-quality overviews, seminars, and demos, available as streaming Quicktime videos that can be watched anytime. And the best... read moreExperimenting with Video Slideshows in iMovie
July 20 2007
I don’t shoot much digital video. In fact, I don’t own a camcorder, so any video I shoot gets captured as an .avi file on my Canon point-and-shoot. So it may seem surprising that I have any use for iMovie.... read moreTimeature for Modifying the Image Date Field
July 13 2007
Aperture is great for adding metadata to digital photos, but I recently discovered a shortcoming while trying to modify some metadata on a series of images. Last week, after importing photos from two cameras into Aperture, I realized that the... read moreJuly 06 2007
In my first post about my new iPhone, I wrote that I wasn’t interested in uploading its photos to Aperture. Now that I’ve had a few days to explore my new gadget, I’ve started using its camera, so I decided... read moreAperture to Picasa for our Windows Friends
June 20 2007
Great news this week for Aperture users who use Google’s Picasa Web Albums for sharing photos online. Übermind has released Aperture to Picasa Web Albums, an Aperture plug-in that enables uploading of photos to Picasa from within the Aperture environment.... read moreAperture to Picasa for our Windows Friends
June 20 2007
Great news this week for Aperture users who use Google’s Picasa Web Albums for sharing photos online. Übermind has released Aperture to Picasa Web Albums, an Aperture plug-in that enables uploading of photos to Picasa from within the Aperture environment.... read moreCreative Effects with Adjustment Presets
June 02 2007
Late last year, when Apple was showing off the great new features of Aperture 1.5, I was lucky enough to work the Aperture booth at the PhotoPlus Expo in New York City. There were about 20 Macs running Aperture and... read moreHow to Control Emailing from Aperture
May 25 2007
Today I want to follow Derrick’s lead and share a few tips about emailing from Aperture. I was working with a photographer recently who had been struggling to figure out how to take control of emailing photos from Aperture using... read moreVideo Slideshows with Aperture and Final Cut Pro
May 21 2007
You can create slideshows from Aperture using iMovie, Keynote, even iPhoto. So why use Final Cut Pro? Well for me it’s about control. Final Cut allows you to control your slideshow at a much more granular level than anything else... read moreDigital SLR Update, Plus the "Tabbed Browser Split"
May 11 2007
First, a quick “thank you” to everyone who offered suggestions and encouragement to my post last week, Buying a Digital SLR. I was very pleased with the amount of information everyone provided and it really helped me focus my search... read moreMay 04 2007
So I have a confession to make: I’ve never owned a digital SLR. I’ve been teaching Aperture for more than a year and a half now, talking with photographers, answering questions, and troubleshooting software and workflow issues. I’ve fashioned myself... read moreApril 27 2007
If you’re an Aperture user, there’s a good chance that you haven’t taken a look at iPhoto in a while. Why go back to iPhoto when Aperture’s tool set is so powerful? Three reasons in particular: books, cards, and calendars.... read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
