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Just back from some shooting with the iPhone 4 and our camera gear and headed into Aperture to import the GPS data. Looks like the iPhone 4 isn’t compatible with Aperture, yet. We’re sure they’ll be an update at some point to rectify this. read more
My colleagues over at BikeHugger (where I’m the Product Editor) and I have been working on some seminars about blogging on a bike with Aperture. I’m glad to see we’re not the only ones thinking this way—check out this blog post on the site Gary Rides Bikes. He’s been using Flickr and Aperture to post ... read more
Aperture 3’s Places tool gives you the ability to add geotagging information (the image’s latitude and longitude) to any image, even if you didn’t have a GPS device. It’s quick and easy. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to quickly assign a Place to an image, and how to move the marker if the ... read more
There are many ways to add location information to files in Aperture, but possibly my favorite way is to access the map interface in the Metadata panel.Bring Up The Metadata PanelBring up the Metadata panel in Aperture by clicking on the tab or by selecting Command-D.Select MapFrom the Map bar at the bottom ... read more
In the Places tool in Aperture 3 pins on the map indicate areas where photographs with GPS coordinates were taken, but the program is actually simplifying things to keep the interface from getting too cluttered.When you look at a map zoomed-out, it looks something like this. At first glance, it seems that 520 photos ... read more
As a full-time blogger and speaker at Social Media and Social Networking conferences, I’m always trying to optimize what I do. My suitcase is compartmentalized with Eagle Creek bags. My MacBook Air has everything I need on it, and nothing more. The goal is to get the most out of the smallest, lightest package possible. ... read more
What are those pushpin icons on the top of some photos in Aperture 3? They indicate that the image has GPS data and has been located on the map in Aperture’s Places tool. Any image with a set of GPS coordinates is automatically placed on the map.What’s That Pin?See that red pushpin at the ... read more
One of the absolutely coolest tricks in Aperture 3 (for my money) came from my colleague Byron who is a blogger-extrodinaire. In his blog post he was waxing poetic about the new mapping functionality inside Aperture’s Book tool. Thanks to GPS mapping and Places it’s possible to auto-generate book pages with maps and with travel ... read more
Aperture 3’s Project Info provides a new file management tool for the Aperture User, allowing one-stop access to a variety of features such Places and a new Project Description field.To access this you can right click on any Project in the LibraryBring up Project InfoIn either mode you can also access this quickly ... read more
Two of the new big features in Aperture 3 are the Faces and Places features. While these evolved from the versions in iPhoto, they’re really welcome additions to Aperture. A commenter on one of our articles referred to them as being "gimmicks," and that just struck me as incredibly shortsighted. That, of course, is likely ... read more
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