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...

iPhoto 7 and Aperture work really well together. In iPhoto you can drag in any image from your Aperture library using the Show Aperture Library feature in the File menu. You can also add images directly from Aperture simply by...

Traveling with your camera is a secret dream of many of us. There's no question when you're in a new and interesting place, all your senses are stimulated particularly your visual sense and it almost feels like pointing your camera...

Last week, a coworker of mine asked two great keyword questions, which have inspired this week's blog post. The first is that he's ended up with a number of identical-yet-different keywords, such as "bob," "Bob," "BOb," etc.. He was wondering...

When I started my wedding photography business a little over a year ago, the volume of my digital images shot up over a hundred percent. No longer post-processing an occasional 50 or so family or street photography images from...

I had the weirdest thing start happening recently: every time I connected a camera or card reader, Canon's CameraWindow would lanuch. It was driving me crazy. I thought Aperture controlled this function. Well, the culprit was iPhoto '08. It had...

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...

I am currently on vacation. On Wednesday, I took a ferry from my home in Dominica to Guadeloupe, a French island just to our north. The trip was really nice. We left around 8 pm and it took about two...

I've said it before, my travel fantasy is to be all packed and ready, looking at my watch to see if it's time to mosey on over to the airport and check-in. But the reality is always a bad case...

When Aperture v1.5 was first released, I was sure that I wanted to generate previews for all my images. Being able to generate high res JPEGS for slide shows and share them with other iLife applications made sense and seemed...

In June, Steve Simon and I had the good fortune to teach a two week photography class to the photo students at the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute. Celebrating its thirtieth year, OSAI is a two week arts camp for 14...

In Aperture, I want to make my time at the laptop as efficient as possible. To do this, I want to be able to import quickly, with as much information as possible, as well as add as many relevant keywords...

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...

There's been a bit of talk on here lately about hard drives, and once in a while someone will mention the word "backup." I think that backups are incredibly important, yet very few people have a good backup solution. As...

While Aperture includes a fairly robust printing architecture, there will still be times when you want to print images in your Aperture library from Photoshop. Whether this is because you want to print using driver-generated color, (something Aperture doesn't allow)...

Nothing like a midday August wedding to strike fear into the heart of this digital photographer. Harsh sun, sparse shade, black suits, white gowns, black skin, white skin -- often all in the same shot. This is a situation where...

Do you ever feel like technology is just running away from you? With the release of iLife and iWork '08 I have to say, I am a little overwhelmed! Before Aperture I had never been a big fan of...

I've had fun exploring some of the new features in iPhoto '08, but I've also noticed what's missing. And the big thing that jumps out at me is that iPhoto still makes a copy of your file when you edit...

It was a surprise to read Derek's post about his new OWC bus-powered drive. Only because just a day earlier, inspired by some of your comments on my last post of "How Fast Is Fast Enough"--your Aperture/Hard Drive performance experiences...

Every photographer knows how important it is to have backups of your digital files. I have an external RAID system that I've used for a couple of years to store my image files and important documents. When I saw that...

Aperture's Web Gallery feature is very nice, and extremely functional. That said, it's hard not to look a little enviously at the cool Flash-based galleries that can be exported from Lightroom. However, while Aperture may lack built-in Flash support, it...

I'm an laptop-on-the-go photographer who likes to have a big library of images with me at all times. When I land at my studio or my office at O'Reilly, I immediately hook up to big FireWire drives and back up...

As you may have noticed I have been a little behind on my weekly blog submission. Well, I have a pretty good excuse. In the past couple of weeks I have had some serious computer problems. The fans on...

Next week I will be on my way back to Africa, specifically, South Africa, Angola and Mozambique--so I thought I would talk about my preparation for this six-week trip. The last time I was on assignment in Africa for that...

&otThis past weekend, I was shooting the Big Air Windjam kiteboarding competition in San Francisco. To help try and drum up some support, I stayed up late Saturday eve putting together a small promotional gallery that I posted to some...