There are a lot of great and powerful preferences to be set in Aperture, but here’s a little tip to help insure the security of your images posted in webpages and webjournals you create. In the Preferences "Export" setting, you...

I'm going to cover two things today, the first of which is the All Projects view. If you're like me, you have a lot of projects in your Aperture library, and sometimes it's tough to remember exactly what is in...

Exporting large amounts of files to multiple folders can be time consuming in Aperture. But I just realized that you can actually export more than one folder at a time. For instance, in my case, I typically have 8-10 smart...

Aperture is now version 2.1.1. Apple released the update yesterday. One of the most noticeable changes in the interface is the appearance of the cloud logo and the name "MobileMe Gallery" section in the project panel for galleries that...

As your Aperture Library grows in size, the ability to search for images becomes more and more important...

If your new camera doesn't appear on the Digital camera RAW formats supported Knowledgebase document, that doesn't necessarily mean that you can't add its Raw files to your existing Aperture library. Thanks to baseline DNG support in the current version...

With a title like that, I better get out of the way and show you what I mean. Some words of wisdom found on the very cool site photoquotes.com. Add your favorites. "There are no rules for good photographs, there...

Fundamentally, photography is all about painting with light. Often it’s the lighting more than the subject itself, that makes an image extraordinary rather than just “nice.” And because of that, photographers pay a lot of attention to both the quality...

You want to free up some hard disk space in your main drive. You can easily do that by turning managed master files into referenced images. You can, of course, export individual projects out of your main drive, and...

Being an application with a very varied user base, I though it would be interesting to see which features I don’t get much use out of...

Last week I wrote about a new edit plugin for Aperture called Silver Efex Pro from Nik Software. I am still having a great time using this plugin. I read some of your comments and am trying to find out...

The times that I’ve seen great photographic masters work up close, Henri Cartier Bresson for example, I noticed that some of the iconic images weren’t as sharp as I had expected. Of course early work from photographers using larger formats...

In Aperture 1, the Browser had only two different modes, Grid view and List view. Aperture 2 adds a new mode called Filmstrip. List view is pretty distinct (it's a table of your images), but Grid and Filmstrip are easy...

As you go through your photographs in Aperture, there might be instances when you want to quickly review information about the images that are on display. There are several ways to do it, but the easiest, and the fastest,...

Another one of those questions that re-appear endlessly on the various forums is managed files v. referenced files. As with a lot of Aperture questions, there isn’t a right or a wrong answer...

It’s Saturday afternoon and I am having a blast experimenting with the new edit plugin from Nik Software called Silver Efex Pro. I downloaded the trial as soon as I heard it was available and it is really addictive....

Last week I talked about recovering highlight areas from your RAW files, this week we move to the dark side with shadows and black point. I’m a firm believer that black is beautiful in many photographs. When there are rich,...

When you see a shot of lightning, or a great sports shot that captured just the right action at just the right moment, or a seemingly once-in-a-lifetime shot, it’s tempting to comment, “Wow you were lucky!” And in reality...

I post some of my pictures from Aperture to Flickr. I've been using the FlickrExport plug-in for fast, easy and convenient upload. When Aperture 2 was introduced, the FlickrExport plug-in (now currently version 1.0.9), which worked so well with...

Between Vaults, Time Machine and any other backup and archiving solutions you use (you DO backup, don’t you?), your Aperture Library should be securely backed up. However, accidents can happen...

In 2.1, there are many ways to adjust your image to bring out its best qualities and get it close to the way you saw it through the viewfinder. The Auto Exposure button in Aperture (only available in 2.1) is...

Over the past few years, I've found that the more keyboard shortcuts for Aperture I learn, the faster I become. But there are some shortcuts that drive me nuts. For example, I often hit the Return key, intending to confirm...

There are several ways to look and compare your images in Aperture's Main Viewer. By default, it is set to Show Multiple. Whenever you select one or several images from the Browser, it will be shown in the Viewer. You...