June is chock full of all sorts of exciting events. From the 8th until the 12 I will be out in Apple-ville for the 2008 World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC). It was a blast last year and I am sure...

Check Software Update or go to the Apple Download Page for the latest Mac OSX Update and Raw Support for the following digital cameras in AP2 and iPhoto 08: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/Kiss Digital x2/450D Epson R-D1 Leaf AFi...

One of those things I view as a necessary evil, is making cards with some of my images on them. It’s such a great idea on the surface to showcase your photography by having cards that you use to send...

Since Aperture opened itself to more, and specialized, editing capabilities, as sampled by Apple’s Dodge & Burn plug-in, almost all of the promised 3rd-party software have now been delivered. We can now download, install and use NIK Software’s Viveza, Tiffen’s...

If you haven't discovered some of the hidden layout options yet in Aperture 2.1, I'll show you where they are. Once discovered, you'll look at this program in a new light. It's like having an application within an application.

As digital photography begins to mature as a medium, metadata that can be transferred easily and reliably from person to person and application to application becomes increasingly important. Most photographers these days have heard of the ‘IPTC’ and ‘XMP’ standards...

At the end of last week’s post, I mentioned that I would be talking this week about my efforts to organize and archive my collection of original film masters. Well, since then I ended up writing an introduction to...

Further to the "What the Aperture 2 Training Book Cover Means To You" contest, I was finally able to track down the artist Kent Oberheu. He was thrilled by the variety of interpretations and said it was "uncanny that every...

It’s often the little things that can make a big difference in your workflow, and a bunch of little changes can make a profound change in the way you process your images. The “customizability” of A2.1 can really increase your...

When working with digital photography, there are a few very important decisions that you need to make early on. What camera, what computer, and what monitor. The camera's largely personal preference, and the computer is easy--a Mac with Aperture. The...

Before the idea of Aperture’s ”all-in-one“ post-production methodology came along, a lot of the things we wanted to do with our digital images required a somewhat inordinate amount of time, expertise and effort to process. The steps to prepare the...

Every time a new version Aperture or LightRoom gets released/announced you always have a big flurry of 'which application should I choose?' posts on all the digital photography forums, and the release of the LR2 beta has been no exception.

I'm recording a Lynda.com Aperture title this week, and I thought it would be fun to include your favorite Aperture 2.1 tip. I'll even give you credit :) Check out the details in this post.

Location, location, location... This mantra holds true when it comes to computers too. For the past five years or so I have been glued to a 15” Apple laptop. It has always been my format of choice and I...

I recently got my mitts on the new Apple Pro Training Series book: Aperture 2 - Professionally Manage Digital Photographs by Ben Long, Richard Harrington and Orlando Luna. I’ve been waiting for it, since this is the book that Apple...

I am excited that the amazing U Point technology of Nik Software’s Viveza, in the form of an easy-to-use editing plug-in, is now available to photographers using Aperture 2.1. My first encounter with the U Point technology was through...

I’ve been working on a video tutorial series for Aperture and in the course of creating each tutorial I often rediscover some of the little and not so little gems that make Aperture so outstanding. It’s easy to become complacent...

When Aperture 1.0 came out and I was fiddling around with it, I came across the Light Table feature, played around with it for awhile and thought ‘neat!’, and then didn’t touch it for two years...

For the last couple of weeks I have been searching for the perfect street camera. I have been comparing three “point and shoot” cameras that could potentially fit the bill. I’ve been trying to make a decision as to which...

Nik Software released Viveza for Aperture yesterday. This is a plug-in that you’re going to want to give a test drive. It’s really pretty amazing software when you put it through its paces. I first saw a demo of Viveza...

I’ve been shooting for a very long time, and my enthusiasm for photography has only increased since picking up a camera at the age of 12 and somehow convincing my parents I can use the second bathroom as a darkroom...

I've shooting lately in very rough lighting conditions. From shooting kiteboarders in black wetsuits, towards the west, over water, around 1-3pm in hazy conditions to shooting them against the setting sun, it's been one exposure challenge after another. As I've...

Drab and gray? Flat? No highlights? It can happen. Maybe you're on location, and it's getting late and the light is fading fast. Or, you're in the studio and there's not enough strobes for the kind of setup you...

Aperture’s virtual filing/organisational structure can be quite intimidating when you first experience it, but as new as this seemed when Aperture first came out nearly two and a half years ago, it was firmly rooted in existing Apple software and concepts - iTunes (and to some extent, the Finder).

You may have missed that the "Save as PDF" button has changed to a PDF pop-up menu in the Print dialog box for the Book tool. There are a few things going on here, many of which I'll cover...