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Hands on with the Nikon D700 – Field notes from a Geographic shooter

Hands on with the Nikon D700 – Field notes from a Geographic shooter

The scene was a bit bizarre. And not just because the streets of Arles (that lovely Provencal city of southern France) were bath in an eerie pink light, compliments of fashion designer Christian Lacroix. Nor because Van Gogh himself had stalked these very streets, painting madly and memorably during his descent into mental hell. No, ... read more

December 29, 2008 in News by David Schloss 0 comments

Seeing your Adjustments with the Command Key in Aperture 2

Seeing your Adjustments with the Command Key in Aperture 2

​ As a handy tip, holding down the Command key while dragging the sliders in the Exposure brick will display on on screen representations of the part of the image that will be affected by the change. For example, drag the “Black Point” slider while holding down command and you’ll get on-screen visual feedback of the ... read more

December 12, 2008 in Adjust, Workflow by David Schloss 0 comments

Firewire’s Disappearance: Tragedy or Non Event

Firewire’s Disappearance: Tragedy or Non Event

After yesterday’s announcements of new hardware from Apple, forums started to flood with comments about the lack of FireWire on the new MacBook lineup. While the MBP still has a FW port (albeit the newer FW800 that requires a simple converter cable to go to FW400) the less expensive model is lacking FireWire entirely. I’ve been ... read more

October 16, 2008 in News by David Schloss 1 comment

Interview with Kent Kobersteen at Perpignan

Interview with Kent Kobersteen at Perpignan

An interview with photographer Kent Kobersteen at Perpignan, France. Kent talks about his career in photography and gives advice for photographers. read more

September 27, 2008 in News by David Schloss 0 comments

Making “custom” business cards with Aperture 2

Making “custom” business cards with Aperture 2

You can make a whole lot more than just Apple Books with-in Aperture! In this step-by-step lesson you’ll learn how to use the Aperture Book layout tool as a full-featured business card creator as well! Think of the potential; printing special “custom” business cards for your next wedding assignment! Now, imagine handing out full color, ... read more

June 6, 2008 in Share by David Schloss 0 comments

PDF to Aperture functionality makes any document part of an Aperture Library

PDF to Aperture functionality makes any document part of an Aperture Library

The fact that Aperture and the Mac OS work well together is no secret—we’ve written often about the nifty integration between OS X and Aperture, in fact it’s what makes it so easy to use your Aperture images in programs like Mail, Keynote, iMovie and more. A new feature available with Aperture 2.1 however opens ... read more

April 11, 2008 in Share by David Schloss 0 comments

Aperture 2.01: Fingerprinted Previews

Aperture 2.01: Fingerprinted Previews

Low resolution preview replacement One of the biggest strengths of Aperture is that, as an Apple program, it integrates so well with the Mac Operating System and other Apple software— seamless integration across the the iLife and iWork applications (whether creating a slideshow in Keynote, a brochure in Pages or combining images and video in iMovie) ... read more

March 4, 2008 in News by Brett Wilhelm 0 comments

Aperture 2 Smart Albums to keep your Library running smoothly

Aperture 2 Smart Albums to keep your Library running smoothly

Aperture’s Smart Albums are incredibly powerful—they can be used to find images based on a wide ranging array of characteristics that are used to describe a photograph. From IPTC data (captions, keywords, ratings, copyright, etc.) to EXIF data (focal length, shutter speed, color space, etc.) and specialized Aperture-specific information, it’s easy to chain together a ... read more

March 3, 2008 in Organize by David Schloss 1 comment

Reconnecting images in Aperture 2 when moved between drives

Reconnecting images in Aperture 2 when moved between drives

If you’re reading this tutorial, the chances are that you’re a bit panicked right now. You’ve just copied all of your referenced files to a new drive, and you can’t quite figure out how to force Aperture to see years-and-years of folders on your drive when it thinks your images still live on some other ... read more

March 1, 2008 in Organize by David Schloss 0 comments

Aperture 2 features part 4

Aperture 2 features part 4

The fourth video on the new features in Aperture 2 read more

February 27, 2008 in News by David Schloss 1 comment