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...

An update on two troubleshooting-themed posts from the last few weeks: First, a strange bug that popped up after the erase and install I performed last week. Everything went fairly smoothly, however there are always surprises when you do a...

I spent a good part of the day yesterday troubleshooting a stubborn Aperture issue for which I found very little online documentation. I thought I’d share my experience here with hopes that any other users with a similar issue might...

When I initially heard that Leopard was incorporating Cover Flow, I was less than impressed since, like Ben, it's a feature I never use in iTunes. But it turns out that it's a great feature for Aperture users, especially combined...

Back in the days of slides we all judiciously created little stick on labels with identifying information about an image as well as our contact information, and then carefully applied them to every slide before we sent them out. We...

At an Aperture class I taught last weekend, one of my students was considering using Aperture as a tool to organize his large scanned image library. He had already scanned thousands of photos and organized them into folders within folders...

When I started my wedding photography business a little over a year ago, the volume of my digital images shot up over a hundred percent. No longer post-processing an occasional 50 or so family or street photography images from...

For photographers with large libraries, one of the trickiest things about contemplating a move to Aperture is simply figuring out how to handle the importing of all of your legacy files. If you're a raw shooter who's making the move...

I shoot almost exclusively with a digital SLR. I have a few different point-and-shoot cameras around at one time or another, mostly loaners for book or magazine projects, but I just can't stand using an LCD screen as a viewfinder....

With Lightroom looming on the horizon, we're going to see more and more comparison articles pitting Aperture head-to-head with Adobe's offering. Lightroom certainly has some very nice features, but it currently lacks one enabling technology that gives Aperture an advantage...

With the ability to import referenced files, Aperture 1.5 makes it much easier to manage a large archive of images than it was under version 1. However, depending upon your storage strategy, you're probably also using the internal, managed library...

Before I even start with this post I must make a disclaimer: The process I'm about to describe works great for me and I have had no problems as a result of using this process. ...however I do not guarantee...

One of the first things Aperture 1.5 users will have to decide is whether or not they want to use the new image previews

With Aperture 1.5's ability to import files as references, you can easily keep your images on a portable, external drive. If you regularly move between a laptop and desktop computer, this is the easiest way to quickly move data back...