Last week, I completed two photo assignments in New York City--a portrait session and a fashion shoot. Things went well except for one itsy-bitsy thing: I didn't have Photoshop. In that whirlwind of a week, out of all the...

Often times when I create image projects in Photoshop or InDesign, I import them into Aperture simply because I can manage and access image projects using the media pane in Apple's creative suite of applications like Keynote, iDVD, Pages, and...

In this posting of a few months ago, I showed how you can create an automated Aperture/Photoshop printing process using a Finder Folder Action. The idea was that, if you wanted to print using Photoshop - either because of its...

While Aperture includes a fairly robust printing architecture, there will still be times when you want to print images in your Aperture library from Photoshop. Whether this is because you want to print using driver-generated color, (something Aperture doesn't allow)...

Often, when I'm asked to speak at amateur photo events, the organizers have specific topics they want me to address. For example, last weekend I covered Adobe applications at Popular Photography's Digital Days. Adobe, Sony, and a handful of other...

One of Aperture's features is its ability to integrate with external editors, like Photoshop. But given the image adjustments that we can make within Aperture, one has to wonder why we really even need Photoshop. After all, between buying expensive...

Starting last evening, and continuing into today, word about the official upcoming release of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 has criss-crossed the Internet. Even though this is a blog for and about Aperture, I think it's important to acknowledge and discuss...

A lot of people struggle with the decision to buy Aperture because they believe that even if they own aperture they will still need to do some editing to their images that Aperture cannot do and therefore they'll need to...