Yesterday, while browsing in my local Apple store, I decided to purchase the updated version of Aperture, but instead of purchasing the registration key for the trail version of Aperture 2.0, downloaded from Apple, I decided to purchase the box...

A question I get over and over again has to do with managing referenced masters. A really typical scenario is this: “I have a whole bunch of masters on a disk, that belong to a variety of projects, which I...

One of the great new features that make the whole post-process and organizing in Aperture 2.0 so much better is the "All Projects" view. I am in a perpetual state of organization. Like many of us, I want to be...

The theme of this entry is randomness, as in two completely unrelated, random tips that I've found while using Aperture 2 over the past few weeks. The first is related to file importing, and the second is about hotkeys and...

Vignette is one of the new editing tools in Aperture 2.0 that made me (and I suppose a whole lot of other photographers as well) really happy. This tool has been in my "wish list" for the longest time (and...

Aperture 2 includes a new Tethering HUD that provides in-program tethering - a much better solution than the AppleScript-based tethering offered in previous versions. To use the tethering feature, you must connect your camera to your Mac via a USB...

I just signed up to attend the Aperture World Tour event in San Francisco, CA. I think it's going to be great fun. Hopefully, one of the tour stops will be near you, so you can attend too.

One of my favorite new additions in Aperture 2.0 has to be the Vignette tool. Back in the days of darkroom printing I would always find myself burning down the corners of my prints to make them “pop” a little....

The current thinking of exposing to the right of the histogram means if you overexpose just a little, you’ll be able to recover highlights, and have more detail and less noise in the shadow areas. There are so many reasons...

One of my favorite features in Aperture is the ability to generate emails containing selected images containing customized watermarks, with just a single click on the email icon. To set this up, first go to Preferences >Export, choose your mail...

With the introduction of Aperture 2.0, Apple made sure that a lot of really useful and up-to-date information about this new release are immediately available from the official Aperture 2.0 site. I must admit, one of the things that...

Apple has made an important interface change in Aperture 2.0, that you may not notice right away: the Primary Select control is gone. In its place is a new control for quickly changing to a Primary Only viewer mode. To understand exactly what this button does, let's re-cap.

When you activate the new Quick Preview option, Aperture displays previews much more quickly. In Quick Preview mode, Aperture stops generating new previews and uses whatever JPEG file it can find.

If you haven't soaked up enough Aperture 2.0 yet, go over to Lynda.com and watch 6 free movies on what's new with this upgrade. And yes, one of the freebies is on Quick Preview, and another is on creating your own custom keyboard shortcuts.

It has been a long time coming and I am thrilled that I can now bring my D300 files into their Aperture Home, and a newly renovated home it is. With all the new stuff in Aperture 2.0, I figure...

Yesterday, I described a lot of the changes in the adjustment tools found in the Adjustment Panel. One key tip that I omitted is that to reset any slider to its default position just double click on the slider. That’s...

Wow, Aperture 2 is amazingly fast. I feel like someone snuck a new CPU into my machine while I was installing the Aperture 2 preview. It loads 20+ MB, 21MP 1Ds Mark III RAW files in just a few seconds...

The Aperture Users Professional Network (AUPN) has an incredible resource of information regarding Aperture 2.0. If you haven't been there yet, run, don't walk, to your nearest internet cafe and spend some time absorbing all you can. David Schloss and...

By now I suspect most people are aware that the trial numbers people received early this morning don't work. If you're receiving the "invalid" error message, go back to the webpage and request a trial serial number again. The new...

Aperture 2.0 features some major interface changes that make for a much more streamlined, fluid experience than previous versions of the program. Apple has redesigned Aperture's main window, and added some new keyboard shortcuts that make navigation much easier. If...

Okay, not sure if this is just me, my system or my little dark Charlie Brown cloud that is following me around, but when I ask Apple to send me a serial number to open my freshly downloaded Aperture 2.0...

If you have been constantly using Aperture through the years, and if along the way you've developed an intuitive degree of mastery over it, you will begin to experience what a really awesome tool it is. This has been my...

I have thousands of pictures in Aperture 1.5, so I'm going to ease in to the version 2 upgrade. Here's the path I took for becoming familiar with the new Aperture release.

I feel like a kid in a candy store! I’m so excited to be using Aperture v2 on my Canon 1DsMKIII images - as well as images from my older bodies! But it’s not just the built in support for...

Just a quick note if you've been frustrated by having a camera with an unsupported RAW format, like a Canon EOS 1Ds MkIII, Powershot G9, or a Nikon D3. Open up System Preferences > Software Update and click "Check for...

One of the things I have always liked about Aperture is the way you can kind of do things in any order you want. Because Aperture uses a non-destructive approach to image editing, adjustments, crops, and other changes can be...

For the longest time, I've wanted to figure out the best way to add keywords to my extensive library. I know in theory how to do it, but I have never actually made a concentrated effort to use this very...

One of the most common questions people ask when trying to decide on a new camera is the resolution size of the files. There is an implicit assumption that bigger is better and that in order to make large prints,...

We want to get things done fast. We can't afford to waste time. Anything we do, we want to do it right away, and we want results now. We live in a time when we actually almost always bend...

Traveling light is one of my favorite things about technology these days. And when I can carry an entire class project on an USB keychain, I'm a happy guy.

As many of you already know, I am currently living deep in the West Indies on a small island called Dominica. I am living here with my girlfriend who goes to the medical school on the island. It is a...