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...

One of those things I view as a necessary evil, is making cards with some of my images on them. It’s such a great idea on the surface to showcase your photography by having cards that you use to send...

Like a lot of photographers, i find myself using both the pro-level Aperture and the consumer-level iPhoto. I find that there are things I can do best for my pictures in each. Both are truly useful to me in my...

I have to admit, one of the apps I’m having most fun with in Leopard is iChat. With all the new features Leopard brings to applications like Safari and Mail, iChat’s 24 new features outnumbers all others. With the new...

iPhoto 7 and Aperture work really well together. In iPhoto you can drag in any image from your Aperture library using the Show Aperture Library feature in the File menu. You can also add images directly from Aperture simply by...

I had the weirdest thing start happening recently: every time I connected a camera or card reader, Canon's CameraWindow would lanuch. It was driving me crazy. I thought Aperture controlled this function. Well, the culprit was iPhoto '08. It had...

I've had fun exploring some of the new features in iPhoto '08, but I've also noticed what's missing. And the big thing that jumps out at me is that iPhoto still makes a copy of your file when you edit...

If you’re an Aperture user, there’s a good chance that you haven’t taken a look at iPhoto in a while. Why go back to iPhoto when Aperture’s tool set is so powerful? Three reasons in particular: books, cards, and calendars....

Aperture manages my main catalog of images, but I like to use iPhoto 6 too. iPhoto is much easier on my older computers -- plus it has some great output options, and I like its casual workflow. You can tap...