I checked out AUPN’s event at the Apple SoHo Store last night. Aperture trainer Jenny McCormack gave a presentation on Aperture for the videographer, focusing on an introduction to Aperture and highlighting the similarities between it and Final Cut Pro....

For photographers with large libraries, one of the trickiest things about contemplating a move to Aperture is simply figuring out how to handle the importing of all of your legacy files. If you're a raw shooter who's making the move...

Coming from the Photoshop world, "Save As" is a familiar term. It often translated into a desk stacked high with hard drives, and if you were like me, multiple, identical versions of photos that made organizing and finding them a...

Computers are like pets or infants in some ways. When something is wrong they rarely calmly deliver a message that explicitly states what's wrong. You know, something on the order of, "Attention your hard drive in Bay C is going...

Apple has scheduled a series of lectures led by some of the best sports photographers in the business. Aperture in Action connects you with these shooters so you can learn how they use Aperture to organize their field-to-studio workflows and...

I am planning to construct a one day workshop for young photographers. This workshop, will take place on a small tropical island in the West Indies sometime in July, and will feature myself as a guest speaker. The cost...

Printing a Light Table is a great way to knock out a quick printed proof of a layout idea or presentation. Just select File > Print Light Table and the contents of the current Light Table will be printed to...

Software Entrepreneur, Aaron Morse, out of Anchorage, Alaska, recently posted in the the Flickr.com Aperture group (which I frequent on a regular basis) a request for the types of plug-ins Aperture users would like to make their life easier. As...

Today is a happy day for Aperture users with the following cameras: Panasonic DMC-LX1, Panasonic DMC-LX2, Leica M8, Leica D-LUX 2, Leica D-LUX 3, Fuji S5 Pro, Nikon D40x, and Canon EOS 1D Mk III. The lastest Mac OS X...

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....

I like to edit quickly. Heck, a few weeks ago, I posted tips for editing quickly. It even used to bug me that in Aperture, it always took an extra step to move a rejected image from my library to...

I've changed my philosophy about rating images over the last year. When I first started using Aperture, I would try to precisely evaluate each image and try to give it an appropriate star rating. But I've discovered that this approach...

Since I'm a .Mac user, I clicked over to see the new site design. First you have to get there. Login is now located under the "Mac" tab at Apple.com. Look for the login link in the left nav bar....

One of the ways I have increased my speed and efficiency working with Aperture was to learn a few layout shortcuts that kicked my workflow into high gear. This is particularly important if you're an Aperture laptop user, which many,...

The Aperture Light Table is much easier to work with if you learn to drive it using its mouse and keyboard shortcuts. (Note: Wondering if the Light Table is even worth investing time in? Take a look at my previous...

Sooner or later it happens to almost all digital photographers - at least all those who shoot a lot. You check some of the images in camera and they look good. You load the memory card into the reader and...

If you haven't already noticed, Aperture Plugged In has a new look and feel. I have been working really hard to bring a better design to the site and create a better user experience. The new site will have lots...

I enjoyed the Steve Jobs keynote today at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco. I listened to the 10 new Leopard features with a photographer's ear, and here are three of my favorites. One of the best...

Most Aperture users I know don't pay a lot of attention to the Light Table. I was this way once. I thought it was a silly feature for Apple to have devoted engineering resources to, when they could have been...

I'm still in the process of moving my archives over to Aperture. I'm taking my time, pre-organizing and story-boarding my collection to maximize efficiency. I love that I can create a new folder in Aperture and under File Menu >...

If you are going to be in the San Frnacisco area next week, and you are interested in Aperture plugins, you won't want to miss this event. AUPN and a few members of the Aperture product team will be hosting...

Something very exciting happened Tuesday morning for Aperture users looking to buy a new laptop--Apple introduced new MacBook Pros (MBPs). As you'd probably expect, the new machines are faster (they're available with up to a 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2...

One of my most lucrative images is also one of my most boring images. In 2004 I was assigned to shoot a hearing on Capitol Hill. The assignment was to cover a hearing of the Indian Affairs Committee. Many times...

Apple is offering a series of Test Drives and Workshops for Wedding and Event Photographers. These are free events led by Aperture experts and photography professionals. It's a great opportunity for you to learn more about Aperture firsthand, or...

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...

Next to attaching keywords to digital photos, rating them in any digital management program is a necessary hassle. And it doesn't make the process any easier when you have hundreds or thousands of images to rate on a regular basis....