In teaching various workshops, one of the key points I try to get across to students is to move around when determining the compostion. Everytime I remind them, I also remind myself. It’s natural to shoot from a “comfort zone”,...

After my last blog, several people asked for information about using the Tint Wheels. The Tint Wheels can be very helpful to either introduce or remove color casts. They differ from the White Balance tools in that the latter alter...

I follow a simple, straightforward and consistent workflow. And it goes like this: after selecting my best shots and after applying enhancements using Aperture, I bring them one by one to Adobe Photoshop CS3 for localized editing, and then save...

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...

In my workflow I like to keep most of my Master images files on a network attached storage device. In fact I have my entire image library sitting on a number of USB attached hard drives that are connected...

I have to admit, one of the apps I’m having most fun with in Leopard is iChat. With all the new features Leopard brings to applications like Safari and Mail, iChat’s 24 new features outnumbers all others. With the new...

A while ago, I posted a blog about previews, discussing when they're useful and how to turn them off. A friend of mine, Ralph Hill, recently told me about a potential problem when you disable previews, and it's worth sharing...

The first time I heard and paid attention to the term "pain points" was at an Aperture conference held in Cambodia. I was part of a group of hand-picked professional photographers from different Asian countries. We were selected to attend...

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...

The Good News: Apple has added more supported camera formats to Aperture via Software Update 10.4.11. The Bad News: the Canon PowerShot G9 is not among them. Rats! I was happy to read Ben's post about additional Raw support...

With the release of Leopard, Apple added raw support for a number of new cameras, leaving Tiger-based Aperture users wondering if they would be forced to upgrade to the new operating system in order to gain support for the new...

I’ve written in previous posts a bit about Amazon’s S3 storage service. So far I have been pretty happy with the service, however, the interface has left a little to be desired. I tried using JungleDisk and a backup program...

Generally, when my raw files are well exposed, the White Balance control is the first step I take toward squeezing the best image out of my raw file, and to get the overall color close to where I want it....

Recently someone was asking if it mattered whether you use the Exposure control or Levels or both to adjust an image and whether there was any difference in the results. So this week I’m going to review some basic adjustment...

Much of the talk last week and this week focused on Apple's iPhone. Only a few days ago, and with a software update of 1.1.2, it became officially available in Europe. This is the first time that the mobile device...

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...

I’m in Washington D.C. right now, finishing up a two day shoot for a PR firm. The assignment was to cover a trilateral summit of the three main patent offices in the world. Everything went according to plan. Thursday evening...

I haven’t used List View in Aperture so much, because List View seemed to be one long boring list of text. But List View is full of suprises. List View can be transformed with a simple slide of the Thumbnails...

In Leopard, and with the latest version of Aperture, it is easier and faster than ever to email photos that are inside Aperture. You don't even need to open Aperture to do it. You can email photos from your Aperrture...

In case you haven't noticed, part one of my article on backing up with Aperture is now posted on Inside Aperture. Part two will cover online solutions, but I received an email yesterday about a solution I didn't cover in...

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,...

A lesser-hyped feature of Leopard is its inclusion of a number of new raw formats. This page shows a complete list of all of the raw formats now supported in Leopard. A quick peak shows that Apple has snuck in...

I was surprised to see the results of a survey conducted by Info Trends and posted on the blog of Adobe’s own John Nack. The survey, (which I wasn’t able to find at the InfoTrends website) claims that out of...

Further to the Time/Machine backup issue, Inside Aperture viewer Bill Cheeseman is on top of this issue for us, commenting on my last post about new information that Apple has posted. You no doubt saw the warning that “Running Time...