Ahh, to be organized. Everything in it’s place. The minimalist life. An uncluttered office makes for an uncluttered mind. Well, that’s not my life as much as I constantly try to make it so. There is however, an often overlooked...

If you’re a US citizen there can be major benefits to registering your images with the Copyright office. Basically if you discover someone using your images without paying for them, and you’ve registered them, you are in a much better...

Deciding to use only Aperture to organize your photographs is not a "limiting choice." With Apple's elegantly designed integration, pictures from your Aperture library will show up, and can be used, in iLife, iWork and several other Mac and 3rd-party...

Aperture has a few different options for the order that images appear in the Browser pane, but some of them aren't immediately visible.

As I mentioned in my last post, I have been in Brooklyn all week working on a short multimedia project for school. At first I was a little concerned that the project lacked direction and focus. But after putting together...

I've become a big fan of having two machines. I have a wonderful, 8-core Mac Pro on my desk with lots of Firewire devices and RAID arrays for Aperture. I also have an aging MacBook Pro, which is nice and...

Do you know what Aperture is doing other than what you are doing? Most likely, not. Unless you are keeping an eye at the activity status from the Control Bar. But what if your control bar is hidden? And...

Apple has just released Aperture 2.1.2, a minor update recommended for all Aperture 2 users, which "improves the printing quality of books, cards and calendars ordered through the Aperture printing service". The books function in 2.1 is extremely powerful and...

This week I am up in Brooklyn, New York collecting the content I need for a multimedia project I am working on as part of my MFA program. I have been gravitating towards working in multimedia for a long...

My rev. A MacBook Pro is approaching the point where it will be replaced - or in this case, added to so that my wife has a notebook again. This brings up something of a dilemma - I love the design of the new MBP model but I'm not quite convinced by the glossy screens.

Okay, I want one, and you probably do too. Yes the new MacBook Pro, with two graphics chips must be a dream for us Aperturites. I’ve been busy trying to find out how much better the new machines will work...

If you're coming out to New York next week for PhotoPlus Expo, you may want to stop by for my Saturday class, Aperture Best Practices. I'll focus on tips to help you build a smooth flow so you can work...

As a nature photographer, I travel a lot and depend on Aperture and my MacBook Pro while on the road. There’s no doubt in my mind that using Aperture is the most efficient way to manage my images - both...

Last week, between my location shoot at Princeton University and three different areas in Manhattan, I've shot more than 3,000 RAW images. That's a lot of images from two shooting days. As soon as I fill up a CF card...

Aperture has a very flexible approach to the layout of it's working areas, although there are a couple of bits where it could do with improvement. Even better, almost all of it can be changed with keyboard shortcuts.

After a series of unsuccessful attempts to recover the contents of my laptop’s internal hard drive I realized it was necessary to replace it and start fresh. Once I was finished installing Leopard and going through a series of software...

I suspect that if you’re reading this blog, your use of Photoshop has gone way, way down. Like the friend that moved away, you just don’t get to visit as often and Aperture's growing list of features and plug-in options...

Most of the time I don’t have a lot of noise in my images. Partially that’s because of the cameras I use, and partially it’s because I try to make sure not to underexpose images. I rarely use ISOs higher...

Last week, I finally gave up on a long-time personal policy that neatly divided my entire collection of images between professional photographs and personal pictures, between Aperture and iPhoto. I've decided to move everything and merge my entire collection into...

I have office space in Sebastopol and Santa Rosa, but just as important, I have a 17" MacBook Pro and a couple of hard drives with me all of the time. Effectively, this means I have my work with me...

This year I took the plunge and updated most of my websites to Drupal, an open source content management system (CMS) in an attempt to make them easier to manage and update - the idea being that easy updates would prompt me to actually update them.

Quick Time-Lapse From My Window from Micah Walter on Vimeo. Following up on last week’s post, I decided to try my hand at some more time-lapse style photography. I am sort of doing research for an upcoming project that...

The customizing shortcuts feature is a powerful way to personalize and speed through your workflow and it’s easy to do. Many of the main features and functions within Aperture already have keyboard shortcuts assigned, but you can change them to...

All throughout Aperture, there are Action menu buttons with some great goodies underneath. These little buttons, with gear-like icons, reveal menus that have commands you won't find under the menu bar and are sometimes hard to find under context menus....