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

Before I begin I have to say thanks to one of my favorite blogs on the block for pointing this out. Photoshelter’s Shoot! The Blog is my morning coffee reading material. I check it out every day, and sometimes...

Before we all “went digital” we were constantly jotting things down in notebooks. It was the old fashioned paper and pencil approach that some of us obsessed over and some of us completely ignored. But, if you wanted to...

We want to work as fast as we can in Aperture, while at the same, keep our focus on the images. There are numerous keyboard shortcuts that allows us to do this. Some are single letters that are quick...

As your Aperture Library grows in size, the ability to search for images becomes more and more important...

As you go through your photographs in Aperture, there might be instances when you want to quickly review information about the images that are on display. There are several ways to do it, but the easiest, and the fastest,...

Last night I had a minor Aperture meltdown. This doesn’t happen too often, as the way in which I use Aperture seems to keep things in check most of the time. However, I still have a really large pile of...

I use a lot of custom metadata fields, in fact I’d find it hard to use any organisation tool that didn’t have them... So what do I use them for? Status A lot of my images or merely ‘source material’...

As digital photography begins to mature as a medium, metadata that can be transferred easily and reliably from person to person and application to application becomes increasingly important. Most photographers these days have heard of the ‘IPTC’ and ‘XMP’ standards...

I'm feeling a little nostalgic. It's probably because I am thinking forward, and anticipating the annual MacWorld Expo & Conference happening in January '08. In any case, come with me and let's stroll down memory lane. We have time, believe...

The other day, I found myself wishing for a note pad in Aperture so that I could write comments and notes about some of my images. I wanted to be able to write random things, like directions to a certain...

I’ve been teaching introductory Aperture courses lately, so I thought I’d share some tips based on questions I’ve been hearing again and again. Last weekend at an AUPN workshop in Dallas I had three students ask the same question: how...

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...

Last week, a coworker of mine asked two great keyword questions, which have inspired this week's blog post. The first is that he's ended up with a number of identical-yet-different keywords, such as "bob," "Bob," "BOb," etc.. He was wondering...

In Aperture, I want to make my time at the laptop as efficient as possible. To do this, I want to be able to import quickly, with as much information as possible, as well as add as many relevant keywords...

I recently came across a cool add-on for Aperture. David Riecks, who currently chairs the SAA Imaging Technology Standards Committee, has a small but very useful product called Controlled Vocabulary. The keyword dictionary is available for Aperture users as well...

Aperture is great for adding metadata to digital photos, but I recently discovered a shortcoming while trying to modify some metadata on a series of images. Last week, after importing photos from two cameras into Aperture, I realized that the...

I've changed my philosophy about rating images over the last year. When I first started using Aperture, I would try to precisely evaluate each image and try to give it an appropriate star rating. But I've discovered that this approach...

In late March, Derrick interviewed Robert Leslie about shooting TED and later was able to share Robert's folder organization in Aperture. I saw this and immediately fine tuned some of my own practices when shooting big intensive events, such as...

One of the more valuable bits of metadata that comes along with digital images is the date and time at which they were taken. When I'm traveling, however, I never remember to change the time on my camera when I...