I’ve had to give a number of presentations recently in a variety of arenas and I want to share some of my observations. Most of the time I use my own projector - the original Canon Realis. That way I...

Last weekend I presented at the Niagara Frontier Regional Camera Council. The opening part of my session was a 10 minute slideshow. Creating a ten minute slideshow of some of my favorite images is not usually a daunting task, and...

I often do presentations and I find that one of the most effective and entertaining way for you and your audience to digest a large number of images in a short time is to put your images to music. Generallly,...

I’ve been really enjoying using my Aperture library to create video slideshows with iMovie 08. I wrote about using the previous version of iMovie for this back in July, but I’ve finally gotten around to spending more time with the...

I don’t shoot much digital video. In fact, I don’t own a camcorder, so any video I shoot gets captured as an .avi file on my Canon point-and-shoot. So it may seem surprising that I have any use for iMovie....

I haven't upgraded my slow but reliable running PowerBook G4 (yet!), but because I can run Aperture on it, I have a very useful marketing tool for my wedding and event shoots. As we all know, digital photography provides...

You can create slideshows from Aperture using iMovie, Keynote, even iPhoto. So why use Final Cut Pro? Well for me it’s about control. Final Cut allows you to control your slideshow at a much more granular level than anything else...

I attended a presentation by sports photographer Bill Frakes last night at the Apple Store SoHo in New York City. The event was presented by the Aperture Users Professional Network (AUPN), a user association and advocate group that supports photographers...

Today let's look at a workflow that enables fast and easy authoring of photo slideshow DVDs. We'll access our Aperture library from iDVD and create an interactive DVD project that we can burn to disc and distribute as a rich...

Aperture has some pretty nifty slideshow features, but you have to navigate down to the "Edit..." selection on the popup menu to get to them. Alot of people think that they're stuck with the stock options such as "Dissolve" and...

One of my favorite things about Aperture 1.5 is its extensible architecture. This means that third party software developers can create plug-ins for Aperture, opening up endless possibilities for integration with their applications. One such application, which jumped on...