I spent a good part of the day yesterday troubleshooting a stubborn Aperture issue for which I found very little online documentation. I thought I’d share my experience here with hopes that any other users with a similar issue might...

Apple has made it really easy to upload your Aperture images into your iWeb albums and galleries. Any image in your Aperture library that has a preview will appear in the Media Manager in iWeb and can be dragged onto...

Looking at the Aperture interface for the first time, with all the many different panes and buttons spread menacingly across the monitor screen, can be intimidating. That's how I actually felt the first time I saw it. It seems unwieldy...

I recently taught an Aperture workshop in Boston for my friends over at the Aperture Users Professional Network. It was a great event, and about 20 Aperture users — both experienced and new users — trudged through the snow to...

On a gray and snowy winter day, Chicago's skyline looks decidedly drab and featureless. Despite the impressive assemblage of towering buildings, including three of America's tallest skycrapers (Sears Tower, John Hancock Center, and Aon Center), the urban skyline doesn't seem...

Over the last several weeks I have been really busy working on the launch of the website for Mardi Gras 2008 - 360 Degrees. Ok, so what exactly is Mardi Gras 360 Degrees? Well, it?s part photo workshop and part...

Last week, I received an email from a wedding photographer, asking for some Aperture help. She's found that after she works in Aperture for a while, each adjustment she makes takes longer and longer (sometimes on the order of 10...

I am in Chicago this week, doing a photo shoot for the campaign of Fusion. Fusion is a new yoga school partly owned and operated by my good friend, a yoga master and instructor, Juanita Monaghan. The past two months,...

Every software program that I’m familiar with includes some automatic adjustments, and without fail, until recently, I’ve been opposed to using them. The reason is that any auto adjustment is a software engineer’s best guess of what adjustments usually work...

I've been using Aperture since it shipped in Nov. 2005 -- more than two years of building projects, adding metadata, and organizing images. There have been many little rewards along the way, such as being able to quickly locate this...

On Friday, Apple unveiled the new West 14th Street store, its largest store in Manhattan. I had a chance to check out the store yesterday and though at this point we expect Apple stores to be impressive, this one really...

Almost a year ago, Ben Long wrote a pretty nice article about how to move away from Aperture. He outlined a plan that would ensure that you would be able to preserve much of the work you have done in...

I often do presentations and I find that one of the most effective and entertaining way for you and your audience to digest a large number of images in a short time is to put your images to music. Generallly,...

Aperture allows you to keep multiple library files, by simply changing the Library setting in Aperture's Preferences dialog box. Many people use this as a way to get around the fact that Aperture limits the size of an individual Library...

You probably saw that Apple released a new version of Mac OS X, Leopard, about a month ago. Yet one announcement that didn't get too much attention was about a public beta of a new, Leopard-only image editing tool called...

I'm feeling a little nostalgic. It's probably because I am thinking forward, and anticipating the annual MacWorld Expo & Conference happening in January '08. In any case, come with me and let's stroll down memory lane. We have time, believe...

I recently rediscovered a useful feature of Aperture that slipped my mind a long time ago: the Edit AutoFill List menu command. A few months ago, I imported a bunch of photos from a business trip to Chicago and in...

Lately, I've been getting a lot of questions about using the Vault with referenced images. Because a lot of people still seem a little confused by the question of backup when choosing between managed or referenced images, I thought I'd...