Inside Aperture

For the last couple of weeks I have been searching for the perfect street camera. I have been comparing three “point and shoot” cameras that could potentially fit the bill. I’ve been trying to make a decision as to which...

Nik Software released Viveza for Aperture yesterday. This is a plug-in that you’re going to want to give a test drive. It’s really pretty amazing software when you put it through its paces. I first saw a demo of Viveza...

I’ve been shooting for a very long time, and my enthusiasm for photography has only increased since picking up a camera at the age of 12 and somehow convincing my parents I can use the second bathroom as a darkroom...

I've shooting lately in very rough lighting conditions. From shooting kiteboarders in black wetsuits, towards the west, over water, around 1-3pm in hazy conditions to shooting them against the setting sun, it's been one exposure challenge after another. As I've...

Drab and gray? Flat? No highlights? It can happen. Maybe you're on location, and it's getting late and the light is fading fast. Or, you're in the studio and there's not enough strobes for the kind of setup you...

Aperture’s virtual filing/organisational structure can be quite intimidating when you first experience it, but as new as this seemed when Aperture first came out nearly two and a half years ago, it was firmly rooted in existing Apple software and concepts - iTunes (and to some extent, the Finder).

You may have missed that the "Save as PDF" button has changed to a PDF pop-up menu in the Print dialog box for the Book tool. There are a few things going on here, many of which I'll cover...

The Aperture Adjustments sliders give you a wide range of control for fixing most images well within the range of the slider. It doesn’t happen very often, but there are times when you’ve moved the slider to the far left...

Although Aperture has offered stacks all along, it’s a feature that I personally haven’t used a lot. But last week I was doing a lot of spring flower photography and experimenting with narrow depth of fields. In some cases I...

While a lot of interest and excitement is now focused on the awesome capabilities of new editing plug-ins for Aperture, particularly with the recent introduction of Apple's Dodge & Burn, DFT's Power Stroke, Ozone and Lights!, as well as...