If you have a camera that writes a RAW file that is currently unsupported by Aperture, you may not be entirely out of luck. First, it is very likely that the team at Apple is busy trying to come...

Last night I took delivery of a brand new Panasonic LUMIX LX-3. I am really excited about this little beast of a camera. It sort of represents a whole new type of shooting that I have been really wanting...

Last week, between my location shoot at Princeton University and three different areas in Manhattan, I've shot more than 3,000 RAW images. That's a lot of images from two shooting days. As soon as I fill up a CF card...

I’ve still not had time to sit down and analyse the editing plug-in SDK properly, but as far as I know the plug-in can request the RAW file, not just an Aperture-rendered TIFF. In theory, this means that camera manufacturers...

If your new camera doesn't appear on the Digital camera RAW formats supported Knowledgebase document, that doesn't necessarily mean that you can't add its Raw files to your existing Aperture library. Thanks to baseline DNG support in the current version...

Apple announced its support for more RAW files. The Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.0 is now available. You can get it through the software update of your computer's system preferences or download it directly from Apple's website. The new...

Raw conversion quality is a very subjective topic, and different people have different ideas about what they like in a raw conversion. If you decide you prefer Aperture's 1.1 converter to the new 2.0 converter, you can easily change the program to default to the older version.

If you have been constantly using Aperture through the years, and if along the way you've developed an intuitive degree of mastery over it, you will begin to experience what a really awesome tool it is. This has been my...

I’m in Washington D.C. right now, finishing up a two day shoot for a PR firm. The assignment was to cover a trilateral summit of the three main patent offices in the world. Everything went according to plan. Thursday evening...

At the recent PhotoPlus Expo show in New York City, one of the many seminars was something a little different. Entitled: Iron Chef Raw Processing—the format was similar to the popular cooking show. Moderated by Photoshop/Lightroom guy Andrew Rodney, it...

This past weekend, I was presenting at the annual BetterPhoto Conference and had the fortune of sitting in on a session by Lewis Kemper. Now Lewis is a very smart photographer and Photoshop whiz, but unfortunately he uses Lightroom instead...

I've been testing the new Canon PowerShot G9 that records in Raw. Great camera, but Aperture doesn't read its version of .CR2 files. This brings up a common question. What do you do if Aperture doesn't support the Raw files...

I've recently been playing with Raw+Jpeg on my DSLRs while testing the new HP Photosmart A626 Compact Printer, which enables me to insert my memory card directly into the unit, view the pictures on its large LCD, then output up...

Today is a happy day for Aperture users with the following cameras: Panasonic DMC-LX1, Panasonic DMC-LX2, Leica M8, Leica D-LUX 2, Leica D-LUX 3, Fuji S5 Pro, Nikon D40x, and Canon EOS 1D Mk III. The lastest Mac OS X...

One of the memes that's been going around the circle of photographers that I chat with is that the better your original RAW files, the better your final files. The whole idea of "Fixing it in Post" is somewhat flawed...

I received this email from Joe Schorr about a Raw image decoding review by the Aperture engineers. Since you're a member of the Inside Aperture community, you might want to contribute. Here's what Joe had to say... ------- As part...

Long time Aperture users might want to double-check the Raw Fine Tune panel in the Adjustments HUD before printing and other critical output. Why? Well, as I learned the other day, there is sometimes a big difference between Fine...

For a long time, I was perfectly happy with the managed library structure introduced with Aperture 1.0. The simplicity of having the application manage all those pesky RAW files outweighed the fact that they were packaged in an opaque structure....

Last week, Ben Long penned a post, Aperture Alpha Channel Aberrations, in which he showed an organization trick for how he keeps different versions of the same Photoshop file stacked together in Aperture. His example underlines an important point that...

This December, I'm taking some time to work on a few fundamentals before heading into a busy schedule of event shooting next year. One of the things I'm working on is a way to let other people "tap" into the...