I have office space in Sebastopol and Santa Rosa, but just as important, I have a 17" MacBook Pro and a couple of hard drives with me all of the time. Effectively, this means I have my work with me...

I have thousands of pictures in Aperture 1.5, so I'm going to ease in to the version 2 upgrade. Here's the path I took for becoming familiar with the new Aperture release.

For the longest time, I've wanted to figure out the best way to add keywords to my extensive library. I know in theory how to do it, but I have never actually made a concentrated effort to use this very...

I've been using Aperture since it shipped in Nov. 2005 -- more than two years of building projects, adding metadata, and organizing images. There have been many little rewards along the way, such as being able to quickly locate this...

Aperture allows you to keep multiple library files, by simply changing the Library setting in Aperture's Preferences dialog box. Many people use this as a way to get around the fact that Aperture limits the size of an individual Library...

Lately, I've been getting a lot of questions about using the Vault with referenced images. Because a lot of people still seem a little confused by the question of backup when choosing between managed or referenced images, I thought I'd...

Here’s a tip for all the Aperture users who have iPhones: when you find a snapshot of a friend or colleague in your photo library, take a quick second to add it to their contact card in Address Book. Then...

In my workflow I like to keep most of my Master images files on a network attached storage device. In fact I have my entire image library sitting on a number of USB attached hard drives that are connected...

A while ago, I posted a blog about previews, discussing when they're useful and how to turn them off. A friend of mine, Ralph Hill, recently told me about a potential problem when you disable previews, and it's worth sharing...

I haven’t used List View in Aperture so much, because List View seemed to be one long boring list of text. But List View is full of suprises. List View can be transformed with a simple slide of the Thumbnails...

In Leopard, and with the latest version of Aperture, it is easier and faster than ever to email photos that are inside Aperture. You don't even need to open Aperture to do it. You can email photos from your Aperrture...

In a previous post I talked about using iPhoto and Aperture together by linking iPhoto images to Aperture’s preview files. What you are essentially doing with this method is creating a reference to Aperture from within iPhoto. This technique seems...

One of my favorite features in Aperture 1.5 is the ability to store my master image files anywhere I want. By using the Relocate Masters and Manage Referenced Files functions in Aperture's file menu I can easily take care of...

There are a few things about Aperture's Projects pane that can be confusing to new users. What's great about the Projects pane is that it provides so many options for keeping even a massive library organized. The combination of Projects,...

Over the last few months, I’ve written several posts about Aperture’s seamless integration with iLife and iWork via the iLife Media Browser. A few weeks ago I posted about using your Aperture photos with iWork’s Pages to create print layouts...

With the recent release of iLife 08 and iWork 08, I thought I’d spend a little time sharing how I use Pages to create layouts with my photographs. I’ve been using Pages as my full-time word processor for a long...

One of the most common questions I hear Aperture users asking is "how should I organize my library?" At first Aperture seems pretty straight forward as far as organization goes. You create Projects which contain the images from a single...

I'm still in the process of moving my archives over to Aperture. I'm taking my time, pre-organizing and story-boarding my collection to maximize efficiency. I love that I can create a new folder in Aperture and under File Menu >...

Since this is my first blog entry for Inside Aperture, I thought I'd use a couple of paragraphs to introduce myself to readers of this site, and to also share a little about how I'm using Aperture's Smart Album feature....

I have maintained that Aperture can make you a better photographer in many ways. Not only can you organize your photographic life, getting rid of the cyber-clutter (duplicate images) and ultimately have more time to shoot; but it also lets...