Aperture 1.0 had some pretty good web tools with nice templates, the automatic addition of metadata, Smart Web pages etc. However, that was a bit under three years ago - a long time in Web years...

Having come up through the newspaper ranks, I’m no stranger to having my images cropped. There was a time when I would even encourage it, cropping out a distracting element or make the picture better by eliminating part of the...

As you may have discovered, when you choose File >Print Image there are a lot of parameters to set. Most of them are obvious but there are a few key points I want to emphasize that will help you make...

You can use the Zoom tool and the Loupe tool when finely assessing and evaluating image quality in Aperture. You may want to use one or the other, or both (even at the same time). To call up the Zoom...

A slightly tangential post this week... I do quite a lot of traveling, either on commission or going to conferences, and am a notoriously heavy packer. So, what do I pack and why? And what’s this got to do with...

I’m pretty sure it has been over 5 years since I shot any film. Seriously, I don’t think I have exposed any since the day I bought my first digital SLR. I certainly have never shot a professional assignment...

Do you peek too much? I sometimes do. One of the amazing luxuries of photography in the digital age is the instant gratification we get by immediately viewing the shot you just took on the back of the cameras’ preview...

As we all know, Aperture provides more than a few tools to adjust an image. But for new users--and especially people new to digital photography--it's tough to know how to start adjusting an image. There are literally books on the...

Every time you launch Aperture, a window with a welcome message and a list of quick options will pop up. This is the default setting. It's as if Aperture is saying, "Hello, how are you--how may I help you today?"...

Drew over at Red River Paper Company just sent me a link to summary of ink cost by print size for the Espon R2400 and R1900 printers. It's a cool (and somewhat sobering) study where I learned that a full-coverage...

One of the features that LightRoom users miss in Aperture is image presets. Aperture has it's 'per brick' presets which are quite handy, but LightRoom will save pretty well all types of adjustment as a single preset that can be...

Many of us use the arrow keys to move around our browser from image to image, but the arrow keys can also come in handy when adjusting your images. Here’s a little tip for those who like to keep their...

A few weeks ago I mentioned that I was working on a video tutorial series for Aperture - and because of that I occasionally come across some features of Aperture that I really hadn’t paid much attention to or was...

Most of us are familiar with three ways of starting up Aperture. We can, and we usually do, any one of the following: Double-clicking on the Aperture icon from inside the Applications window. Single-clicking on the Aperture icon that have...

One of the biggest benefits of the new generation of photo workflow apps such as Aperture and LightRoom is the speed of turnaround. Where we might, before, have been using half a dozen different applications in our workflows, these days...

A friend in the advertising world sent me a link to this new Canon Rebel XSi commercial. It's a beautiful commercial, using still images instead of video to tell a story - and to sell a camera. I thought it...

Last night I had a minor Aperture meltdown. This doesn’t happen too often, as the way in which I use Aperture seems to keep things in check most of the time. However, I still have a really large pile of...

A couple of things happened this week that prompted this post. First, while editing in Aperture with several hard drives hooked up to my laptop, my battery died. I had not noticed that the laptop wasn’t connected to the outlet,...

In case you haven't noticed, there are a plethora of third-party plug-ins being released for Aperture now that Apple has provided an image editing software development kit (SDK). However, if you have an idea for a plugin but don't know...

Do you want a fast and easy way to “hemispherically” straighten things up? You can now do it inside Aperture with the Fisheye-Hemi plug-in from Image Trends. At a single click of a radio button, the Fisheye-Hemi “automatically remaps...

I use a lot of custom metadata fields, in fact I’d find it hard to use any organisation tool that didn’t have them... So what do I use them for? Status A lot of my images or merely ‘source material’...