Last week I talked about persevering with your projects. Continuing last week's post, after getting a flurry of rejection letters from publishers about my proposed book, Empty Sky: The Pilgrimage To Ground Zero, I tried a different way of...

With the Aperture 1.5 update came an additional feature within the Loupe tool called "Centered Loupe". The original Aperture Loupe tool was, and still is an excellent way to check focus and detail on images of any size, including thumbnails,...

In no particular order; Five things that I think Apple could do to improve Aperture...

A week and a half ago, Derrick mentioned that he was testing out a SmartDisk FireLite 120GB hard drive with Aperture. Since I do so much of my photography and processing with Aperture on-location at events, it's important to me...

Before I even start with this post I must make a disclaimer: The process I'm about to describe works great for me and I have had no problems as a result of using this process. ...however I do not guarantee...

Okay, I know this site is all about Aperture. I also know that Aperture is nothing without its images. These next two posts are about images and faith. Faith is an element of my photography that continues to surface, from...

In my last post, I detailed some ways that you can rename your master image files from within Aperture (I also ranted and raved about why you don't really need to to this if you're an Aperture user, and got...

One of the first things Aperture 1.5 users will have to decide is whether or not they want to use the new image previews

Aperture manages my main catalog of images, but I like to use iPhoto 6 too. iPhoto is much easier on my older computers -- plus it has some great output options, and I like its casual workflow. You can tap...

If you use Aperture, you probably really care about your photographs. You might be a pro with a library that ranges into the 100's of GBs, or you might be an amateur with 20GB of data, but you care enough...

I have a great lineup of Inside Aperture Podcasts slated, and I wanted to answer a few recent questions from readers about the show. First, you can subscribe to the show via iTunes Music Store. You can either power...

In my last post I talked about getting your images into Aperture and applying basic adjustments and edits to your images. Now I want to move on to getting your images out of Aperture and getting them in front of...

I've been using the SmartDisk FireLite 120 GB hard drive to store my Aperture library for the MacBook Pro 17" I take on the road. I was down to 1 GB on my previous 80 GB LaCie drive, and...

I think the features that grab me most about Aperture, are the ones that nod to the pre-digital era. The times when you spilled your negs or slides onto a light-table, grabbed a good loupe and in magnified glory, saw...

Every time I give a talk or class on Aperture, someone asks this question: "is there any way to get Aperture to rename my referenced master files when I import?" The short answer is: there's no built-in way to do...

Aperture has a 10,000 image limit per project. This does NOT mean that you can't have more than 10,000 images in Aperture. Just that you need them in more than one project. If you create a folder in the...

One of the many delightful surprises in the latest version of Aperture is tabbed browsing. That's right, you can have multiple albums, projects, web galleries, etc. open at once, then switch among them just like you can with multiple web...

I've been asked many times recently what my equipment setup looks like behind the scenes when I shoot a conference, such as last week's Web 2.0 Summit. I've been able to take a few people backstage and show them in...

In my post entitled "Digital Workflow of a Semi-Pro Part 2" I stated that after I get all my images into Aperture, that I "...select all the remaining images and apply the Edge Sharpen (CTL-S) command with the default...

In the past, I really liked the white balance presets in Adobe Camera Raw. Trying different options from the pop-up window in ACR let me preview different temperature/tint combinations for my Raw images. I'd been expecting to see similar functionality...

Like many in the photo community, I have made the pilgrimage to New York City's annual photo-tradeshow, PhotoPlus Expo, many times. As I made my way around the show floor, I reaffirmed my view: It is a great time to...

I just spent three fantastic days at the PhotoPlus Expo in New York City (November 2-4). I've been going to the show for more than ten years and this was the second year that Apple Computer has had a booth...

Photographers who have been shooting raw for a while know that there's no standard, accepted raw format. While Adobe has offered the Digital Negative Specification in an attempt to establish a single, open-source raw format, camera vendors have not jumped...

In my previous post I got all my shots imported into Aperture, now we pick up where we left off. So now I have all the day's shots in Aperture, this is where the fun begins. The first thing I'll...

Aperture's RAW preference pane in the Inspector allows you to adjust the amount of auto sharpen applied on import. I suggest that you keep this number as low as possible since Aperture doesn't allow selective sharpening. If your image contains large areas of sky or water or other subjects that are in the background, you probably don't want them sharpened. So use Aperture's new Edge Sharpen to avoid creating digital noise or save the sharpening for your roundtrip to Photoshop or some other third-party sharpening application for best results.

When I got home a week ago after shooting the Ajax Experience in Boston, and C4 in Chicago before it, I went through my now-normal ritual of migrating the Aperture project for the shows from my laptop to my trusty...

After a recent chat with AppleScript guru Sal Soghoian (who is also the Automation Product Manager for Apple), I learned that using scripts to enhance the Aperture workflow has been a concept embraced by the engineers from the get-go. Sal...

I've found that I use two different kinds of workflow in Aperture: the kind that I maintain for my permanent library; and the kind that I use on-location. The reason for using two distinct workflows is that the demands of...

With Aperture 1.5's ability to import files as references, you can easily keep your images on a portable, external drive. If you regularly move between a laptop and desktop computer, this is the easiest way to quickly move data back...

Pay close attention to the graphics card and RAM, and you'll end up with a superb computer for Aperture.

It was an important lesson that would stick with me and help make me a better photographer. During the many years that I worked as a photojournalist, I developed the habit of taking time at the end of the year...

As this is my first blog entry on the Inside Aperture, blog I'd like to use this first paragraph to let you know who I am and what I'm all about. My name is Allen Rockwell, I'm 43 years old...