Found Footage: Chase Jarvis Using Aperture 3
Here’s a great little video of superstar Chase Jarvis using Aperture 3 for post production work with a shoot featuring a series of musicians.read more
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Split Toning Using Adjustments in Aperture 3
One of the things that I’m fond of in Lightroom 3 Beta is the split-toning tools. Simply, a split toned image is a monochrome file that’s toned different colors in the highlights than in the shadows. It was a popular technique with master darkroom printers and while it’s not used frequently it’s handy when you ... read more
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More Aperture Bashing Without Actual Accuracy
Oh look! It’s another article that tells people why they should stay with Lightroom instead of switching to Aperture. This one comes from Lightroom Killer Tips. This one was based on an article in the pro-Aperture camp called Five Reasons for Switching from Lightroom 2 to Aperture 3. Now we’re writing about an article writing ... read more
Aperture 3’s Automatic Activity Processing
When you import images into Aperture 3, it automatically performs some actions. To check out what Aperture is doing, go to the Window>Show Activity menu. The resulting palette allows you to see what Aperture is doing, and to control the tasks being processed.View Aperture’s Behind the Scenes ActivityOne of the neat things that Aperture ... read more
Share Places Geotagging With Flickr in Aperture 3
This one totally escaped me, but the blog terrychay.com points out that if you want to share your Geotagging information with Flickr 3, you need to head over to the Preferences and check Include location information for published photos under the Web tab, and then re-publish any of your Flickr galleries. Great tip, head over ... read more
Discounted Aperture 3 Price at Amazon
Amazon’s got a nice price on Aperture 3 right now. $176.43. Gift-wrap is available.read more
Aperture 3’s Slight Pixel Change
According to this Apple tech note, Aperture 3 "more accurately" calculates the pixel dimensions of several cameras, and so images cropped in Aperture 2 might have a slightly different crop in 3.0. According to this doc, the difference is usually smaller than 8 pixels to a side. Here’s the tech note in full.Symptoms The pixel dimensions ... read more
Delete to Remove Bricks in Aperture 3
Since Aperture 3 allows you to add multiple instances of an adjustment brick in order to allow for multiple-instances of that effect to be brushed on or off of your images, it’s handy that it also offers a s system of removing those adjustment bricks with literally just a click.But First We AddThe first ... read more
MacCreate at SXSW – Mobile Social, Photo Walk
MacCreate will be on hand for the first part of SXSW Interactive in Austin. Send us a tweet @maccreate if you’re coming.We’re involved in the Mobile Social, the big bicycle-ride/party/schwag giveaway that’s produced by Bike Hugger. Join the MacCreate crew as we help host the best gathering at SXSW. Details about this killer event are ... read more
Adjust Curve Points With Arrow Keys in Aperture 3
In the Curves adjustment brick you can add points to a curve by simply clicking anywhere on the curve.The clicked point will gain a curve point. Most people adjust this point by dragging it with the mouse, but you can actually adjust it in very fine increments by using the arrow keys, and this ... read more
Delete Version Can Delete Master Too in Aperture 3
A great question from Mac Create reader William just made me more aware of a behavior in Aperture 3 that’s important to note. In Aperture 2, deleting a master file would prompt a long-winded warning message about removing the master version of a file. Aperture 3 has instituted a program-wide Trash and so has dispensed ... read more
Displaying Clipping Point in Levels in Aperture 3
When working with the Levels tool in Aperture it’s possible to display the channels in your image that will be clipped when moving the white and black point sliders. This helps you identify whether your adjustments are negatively affecting the parts of your image with key detail, and helps you specifically target your adjustments.Adjust ... read more
Call for Referenced vs. Managed Definitive Opinions
I found this be a very helpful discussion the Apple Discussion boards. The thread goes in to great detail and is very thoughtful about the pros and cons of each choice. I wish more discussion threads were this good.Here’s the link: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2360456&tstart=15read more
Moving Images to a New Project Easily in Aperture 3
Quite often when returning from a shoot I take the workflow approach of importing all of my images into one Project and then splitting them out into other Projects based on subject. For example if I go off to shoot a bike race I might make the Pro division and the kids fun race two ... read more
Quickly Share Projects in Aperture 3 With Drag-And-Drop
Aperture 3 has added a new twist on multiple-person workflows with the ability to export whole Projects or Albums quickly and efficiently. Simply take any Project or Album from the Inspector pane and drag it to the Desktop or a window in the Finder. The result is a file with the .aplibrary extension like this ... read more
Finding Offline Files with a Smart Folder
I had four hard drives all different types, brands and uses go down in a six month period. Fortunately, I had everything backed up didn’t lose any data. However, in the process of using backups and buying new backup drives I had some Aperture libraries that had a ton of images offline. This will show ... read more
