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Referenced setup saves the day!
November 18 2008
To a photographer whose work depends largely on flawlessly running Macs, any manner of hardware failure can qualify as a major disaster, perhaps leading to quiet panic and maybe even desperation. The idea of losing everything can elicit a hopelessly.... read moreAperture's integration with iLife and iWork
October 28 2008
Deciding to use only Aperture to organize your photographs is not a "limiting choice." With Apple's elegantly designed integration, pictures from your Aperture library will show up, and can be used, in iLife, iWork and several other Mac and 3rd-party.... read moreOctober 21 2008
Do you know what Aperture is doing other than what you are doing? Most likely, not. Unless you are keeping an eye at the activity status from the Control Bar. But what if your control bar is hidden? And.... read moreAperture takes it all in, and out
October 14 2008
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.... read moreThe unification of images into Aperture
October 07 2008
Last week, I finally gave up on a long-time personal policy that neatly divided my entire collection of images between professional photographs and personal pictures, between Aperture and iPhoto. I've decided to move everything and merge my entire collection into.... read moreThe (possible) rise of 4th-party developers and 3rd-party jumpers
October 07 2008
By now, almost everyone who has an iPhone and who have downloaded apps from the App Store, will most likely know what 3rd-party software means, and by natural extension, who the 3rd-party software developers are. And everyone also most likely... read moreAperture's built-in tool for quickly fixing image noise
September 30 2008
At one time or another, digital photographers will have to deal with image noise. This is particularly true when photos have been shot in dim lighting conditions and at a high ISO. Many digital cameras produce visible noise above 400.... read moreSeptember 23 2008
As more and more 3rd-party applications are added to the App Store, I feel that it is becoming harder and harder, are more time-consuming, to wade through the offerings, and actually end up buying the ones I really want and... read moreSeptember 23 2008
When I was new to photography, before digital imaging turned the industry upside down, I would often hear one uncertain advise from my mentors: "Break the rules." As best as I could, I respectfully learned the rules and then.... read moreMobileMe Gallery: Unleasing photos into the wild
September 17 2008
One of the things I really like about Aperture is how it changed, simplified and organized the way I share, show, submit, distribute, present, and output my final images. At one time or another, I must have, and I still.... read moreSeptember 09 2008
Last week, I completed two photo assignments in New York City--a portrait session and a fashion shoot. Things well except for one itsy-bitsy thing: I didn't have Photoshop. In that whirlwind of a week, out of all the weeks.... read moreMy dear iPhone, how are you doing today?
August 27 2008
When you've been using a particular gadget for some time, you develop what seems to be a personal, and perhaps, even a somewhat intimate relationship with that object. The contents, the settings, and even the characteristics of a gadget that... read moreAugust 26 2008
When Lightroom 2.0 emerged out of beta, not a few Aperture users might have felt exactly the same thing that some Lightroom users may have felt when Aperture 2.0 was released. It's a feeling, a sensation, a nagging suspicion that,.... read moreProfessional and film-like photographic filters with Color Efex Pro 3.0 for Aperture
August 19 2008
There are now more than 70 editing plug-ins available for Aperture since version 2.0 was introduced. Some of these editing plug-ins are designed to output only a single, specific result, and then there are some that offer multiple editing.... read moreNoise Ninja kicks some noise in Aperture
August 12 2008
Of the many third party editing plug-ins that was announced as "in development" when Aperture 2.0 was first introduced, PictureCode is probably one of the last to deliver with its very popular and much anticipated plug-in, Noise Ninja. Originally.... read more
