When I last asked what confused people the most about Aperture, many people commented that folders, albums, and projects were confusing. This week, we're going to take a few minutes to review this fundamental but potentially confusing topic. Projects are...

On a recent fashion shoot, I found myself getting involved beyond the usual shoot-and-deliver mode. My working relationship with the client, and my role in the project, has evolved from just being a part of the campaign's pictorial to being...

I’ve worked with hundreds of talented photographers, video editors, and designers over the years, helping them solve technical problems or accomplish whatever creative task might be at hand. One trend that I see over and over is that there’s never...

Here are my top ten resolutions for 2009... 1. Organize and consolidate my Aperture Libraries. My archive is a bit scattered. So with my recent purchase of big hard drives with lots of space, I plan on organizing and moving...

My best wishes to all of you for holidays filled with joy that lasts throughout the year. Remember to photograph the moments that capture the essence of your holidays - not just the expected shots that you think you should...

Whenever Apple introduces a new anything, whether a new new thing or a major update to any existing products and services, it becomes publicly and magically available as a fully formed matter on their website. We of course know that...

World peace, goodwill to all men... oh wait, this is the season of instant gratification... ;-) A Canon 5D2. A next-generation MacBook Pro with two FW ports. A 30" Cinema Display. A projector. A version of Aperture with: Non-destructive local...

Next semester I have agreed to work for the Photographic and Electronic Media department's computer lab. I will be tasked with general oversight of the lab, and will be offering a series of short workshops for the students in my...

Mac OS X 10.5.6 is the update of the operating system that became available a couple of days ago, with “graphics improvements for iChat, Cover Flow, APERTURE, and iTunes”. Though details were not specific, speculation is that improvements have been...

This week, we're going to do something different. Let's have a discussion instead of a monologue. Way back when, when we were all first starting to shoot digitally or to organize film scans, I'm betting you were like me and...

It was a stroke of luck that my Aperture library was in an external hard drive when my laptop's internal drive failed. It was therefore just a (somewhat inconvenient) matter of replacing the internal drive or buying a new...

A bit of a miscellany this week, and a day late to boot... :-(

Next week is the last week of classes for my first semester at the Maryland Institute College of Art. For those of you who don’t know, I started working towards an MFA in Photographic and Electronic Media this Fall. It...

Photo Copyright Steve Simon Wikipedia: A double-click is the act of pressing a computer mouse button (or track pad) twice quickly without moving the mouse. Double-clicking allows two different actions to be associated with the same mouse button. Often,...

Usually I’m quite methodical when I’m out in the field. I often have a lot of expensive gear along and tend to create routines so that I can quickly and efficiently pack up everything and move along. It helps...

This morning, I was told that I needed to directly fax an invoice to the client's accounting department. The DVDs of the completed project have been delivered to the project manager a day before, but it was necessary to...

Recently I've been selling off the remnants of a rather large collection of old Games Workshop SF & fantasy models on eBay and, of course, using Aperture as part of that process. ;-) Being the automation fanatic that I am,...

With the introduction of the new D3X and its $8k price tag, a line is clearly being drawn in the sand. I’m amazed at some of the online comments out there, so much negativity, even anger, over the perceived high...

Over the past few months, a number of us have written about the individual Nik Software plugins for Aperture. Ellen wrote about the Dfine noise reduction tool here, Micah wrote about Sharpener Pro here and Silver Efex Pro (for converting...

Last year, Steve Jobs uncharacteristically hinted at things to come when he publicly disclosed in an open letter (published in Apple's website), that the company plans to eliminate mercury in its LCD technology and arsenic in its glass casing by...

Nikon just announced their new D3X 24.5MP camera, and no doubt we'll see the standard 'but why doesn't Aperture support my new camera?' threads appearing in the various Aperture and photography forums some time soon...