If you have a camera that writes a RAW file that is currently unsupported by Aperture, you may not be entirely out of luck. First, it is very likely that the team at Apple is busy trying to come...

It’s American Thanksgiving Day-- time to give thanks to all the creative geniuses that have given us our Aperture Software, and the amazing technology from auto-focus to digital sensors packed with megapixels that don’t need much light, which make it...

It's easy to get accustomed to taking the various features and tools within Aperture at face value without really thinking any further about what they might have to offer. But if you're willing to think outside the box a tad, you may discover a lot of untapped potential. For example, on the surface, the Book tool in Aperture exists to let you create books from your images. As you know, there are options for various layouts, with and without text. You can opt to have Apple generate the books (and by the way, their quality is now quite impressive) or generate a PDF to send to the printer of your choice. But did you realize that you can use the Book tool to create posters or text slides for use in a slideshow?

Last week, I picked up a new 15-inch unibody MacBook Pro. When it was first introduced a few weeks ago, and despite the temptation, I actually decided not to upgrade. I told myself to wait it out until at...

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Last night I took delivery of a brand new Panasonic LUMIX LX-3. I am really excited about this little beast of a camera. It sort of represents a whole new type of shooting that I have been really wanting...

It has been a mantra of mine, always carry a camera with you because you never know when a great photo will present itself. That being said, there have not been too many times when that mantra has yielded great...

How many of you have heard of Cinerama? You can read about it on Wikipedia here, but the short story is that it's an obsolete film technology that used 3 35mm projectors to create a widescreen image. Mainly used during...

To a photographer whose work depends largely on flawlessly running Macs, any manner of hardware failure can qualify as a major disaster, perhaps leading to quiet panic and maybe even desperation. The idea of losing everything can elicit a hopelessly...

I've always been happy to tell people how they should have multiple backups of all their important files, in multiple places - but I've never been quite as strict about it doing it myself as I should have been...

I received quite a few comments on my post last week regarding my short list of wishes for Aperture 3.0. There were a number of similarities, but one aspect of the comments struck me as sort of odd. It seems,...

Here’s a great power-user tip that could save you lots of time and speed up your work flow. Lift & Stamp and Batch changing of metadata are powerful ways to quickly make changes to large numbers of images in one...

As you use the Adjustment Panel you'll find that there is some overlap among some of the controls in Aperture. In the Exposure brick there are options to set the overall exposure, as well as the Black point, Recovery and...

As GPS2Aperture Pro just went into public beta testing, it seemed like a good idea to talk about geotagging and Aperture...

I am sitting here in my apartment in Brooklyn, speculating about what the hive-mind in Cupertino could come up with for the next generation of Aperture. Aperture seems to have grown into something very good. I use it every day,...

A little while ago, Angel Island, an island in the middle of the San Francisco bay, caught fire. It started at about 9:30 and burned through the next day. I found out about it around 11pm, and it seemed like...

Obviously, if you're reading this you already know about one of the main places to read about Aperture, but there are some great resources scattered across the net, not all of which are easy to find...

Digital Camera Raw Compatibility 2.3 "This update extends RAW file compatibility for Aperture 2 and iPhoto ’08 for the following cameras: Canon EOS 50D Nikon D90 Sony DSLR-A900 Nikon Coolpix P6000 It also addresses issues related to specific cameras and...