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Found Footage: Chase Jarvis Using Aperture 3

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

March 11, 2010 in Workflow by David Schloss 0 comments

More Aperture Bashing Without Actual Accuracy

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

March 11, 2010 in News by David Schloss 10 comments

Aperture 3’s Automatic Activity Processing

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

March 11, 2010 in Workflow by David Schloss 0 comments

Share Places Geotagging With Flickr in Aperture 3

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

March 11, 2010 in Tag by David Schloss 0 comments

Discounted Aperture 3 Price at Amazon

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

March 11, 2010 in News by David Schloss 0 comments

Aperture 3’s Slight Pixel Change

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

March 11, 2010 in Workflow by David Schloss 1 comment

Delete to Remove Bricks in Aperture 3

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

March 10, 2010 in Adjust, Organize by David Schloss 0 comments

MacCreate at SXSW – Mobile Social, Photo Walk

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

March 10, 2010 in News by David Schloss 1 comment

Adjust Curve Points With Arrow Keys in Aperture 3

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

March 9, 2010 in Adjust by David Schloss 0 comments

Delete Version Can Delete Master Too in Aperture 3

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

March 9, 2010 in Organize by David Schloss 2 comments

Displaying Clipping Point in Levels in Aperture 3

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

March 9, 2010 in Adjust by David Schloss 2 comments

Call for Referenced vs. Managed Definitive Opinions

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

March 9, 2010 in Organize by Thomas Boyd 1 comment

Moving Images to a New Project Easily in Aperture 3

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

March 9, 2010 in Share by David Schloss 2 comments

Quickly Share Projects in Aperture 3 With Drag-And-Drop

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

March 9, 2010 in Share by David Schloss 0 comments

Finding Offline Files with a Smart Folder

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

March 9, 2010 in Organize by Thomas Boyd 1 comment