On a gray and snowy winter day, Chicago's skyline looks decidedly drab and featureless. Despite the impressive assemblage of towering buildings, including three of America's tallest skycrapers (Sears Tower, John Hancock Center, and Aon Center), the urban skyline doesn't seem...

I was working with a client recently who had been struggling with getting consistent color from his photos in Aperture. Like many other digital photography enthusiasts I’ve talk to over the years, he was mystified by color management, and had...

Aperture has a real advantage to the photographer in that you can set up your own customized work environment. Not only can you change the way Aperture’s layout is set up, you can also change your surround. If you...

I've written before in this blog about the importance of calibrating your monitor. The general message of those articles is: The calibration tool that you use is less important than the act of calibration itself. In fact, the only way...