Chris Breen and I sat down to chat about Beijing, photography, and Aperture in the Main Press Center at the Olympics. It's a great conversation with an old friend, and there are plently of links to other goodies too. You...

I'm here blogging on the last day of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, and I'm running to the Xcel Center to get ready for the final night when John McCain makes his historic speech accepting the nomination...

One great feature about using a Mac is that Mac developers often go the extra mile to make their app integrate into the system. For example, Keynote (as well as a number of other apps) has a media browser that...

When Lightroom 2.0 emerged out of beta, not a few Aperture users might have felt exactly the same thing that some Lightroom users may have felt when Aperture 2.0 was released. It's a feeling, a sensation, a nagging suspicion that,...

Inside Aperture reader Alfred Lanctot sent me a "cool" tip that I think you'll find useful. When you're working with the "Highlight Hot & Cold Areas" display on in Aperture 2.1, you can temporarily disable it by clicking and holding...

I’ve been reading through some of the Olympics blog posts from Derrick Story and David Schloss, and it strikes me how much the ‘speed’ of an application can be subjective.

Before I begin I have to say thanks to one of my favorite blogs on the block for pointing this out. Photoshelter’s Shoot! The Blog is my morning coffee reading material. I check it out every day, and sometimes...

There's been some interesting conversation, bordering on FUD, about Aperture's Edit Plug-In architecture, saying that it really provides no advantages over using an external editor. Micah Walter, whom you may recognize as a contributor to this blog, has published a...

For those of you who are relatively new to Aperture 2, or who feel like you’re not taking full advantage of all its features, I want to call your attention to a new Aperture 2 training series of videos...

There are now more than 70 editing plug-ins available for Aperture since version 2.0 was introduced. Some of these editing plug-ins are designed to output only a single, specific result, and then there are some that offer multiple editing...

I’ve just got back from three weeks on the road, traveling to and from a big meet-up of panoramic photographers in Prague. But I’ll write about that another time... By one of those strange coincidences that sometimes happen, the evening...

Before we all “went digital” we were constantly jotting things down in notebooks. It was the old fashioned paper and pencil approach that some of us obsessed over and some of us completely ignored. But, if you wanted to...

I don’t yet geotag my photos but I plan on doing it soon since I don’t really see a downside to being able to pinpoint exact locations where images were shot and easily find them on Google Maps. It makes...

Working on the road is fun thanks to my portable MacBook and Aperture 2.1. Here's how I keep up the daily posting pace in Beijing.

It's amazing when you go shooting how easy it is to ignore pain. We'll happily contort our bodies into odd positions that would make a yoga master proud, trying to get just the right angle on something. And usually once...

Of the many third party editing plug-ins that was announced as "in development" when Aperture 2.0 was first introduced, PictureCode is probably one of the last to deliver with its very popular and much anticipated plug-in, Noise Ninja. Originally...

I have an admission to make. I have one very bad habit in my workflow that I just can’t seem to shake loose. There is a project in my workflow called “Import” that has been sitting there since I first...

I'm enjoying helping photographers solve their problems, and even more so, watching my teammates here do the same. As a result, I've learned some good tips and thought I'd pass one along right now. One of the big challenges shooters...

I'm working in the photographer's area of the Main Press Center at the Beijing Olympics. As you can imagine, I'm seeing some beautiful images on Apple 30" Cinema Displays. That's right, Apple has 50 workstations set up with MacPros and...

One of the more powerful features in Aperture is its ability to render JPEG previews of raw images that can be used in a variety of practical and powerful ways. These previews represent the original raw files and are rendered...

Noise Ninja 2.0 was just released for Aperture 2.1 as a plug-in. This is a welcome addition since Noise Ninja enjoys a reputation as being one of the better noise removal products in the industry. I gave it a test...

I just learned a sweet little UI tweak in the latest Aperture update. As you already know, when you're working in Quick Preview mode, you can't do any image editing. Sometimes people forget they're in Quick Preview, try to edit,...

We want to work as fast as we can in Aperture, while at the same, keep our focus on the images. There are numerous keyboard shortcuts that allows us to do this. Some are single letters that are quick...

I don’t use the feature very often, but when I do, it’s invaluable.

Next month I will be embarking on a two year long journey to obtain my Masters of Fine Arts in Electronic and Photographic Media. This is sure to be an interesting chapter in my life, and I am immensely excited...

This coming Monday I board a plane to Beijing to help Kodak and Apple in the Olympic Media Center. In addition to the excitement that comes with my first visit to China, not to mention my first media pass for...