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Yesterday we received a report of images turning "green" when working on them in Aperture. We hadn’t seen this happen at all and assumed it had something to do with the 6.0.4 update from a few days ago. However, working on a machine today rating some images I stumbled upon this phenomena, and seem to ... read more
A "Brick" is the term in Aperture used to refer to a group of settings that can be added or removed and that are separated by horizontal lines. Bricks are used in the Adjustments settings and in the Import settings most notably. Aperture 3 can now have multiple bricks for most of the Adjustment ... read more
When you import a project into Aperture 3 from Aperture 2 (or earlier) a warning dialog box appears indicating that you’ll need to upgrade your Project to use it in Aperture 3 or else the program will use the imaging tools from Aperture 2. Since Aperture 3 is a much more powerful program, it’s a ... read more
Aperture 3 now has an incredible new ability—photographers can now brush any adjustment on (or off) of their images for precise control of things like dodging and burning, blur, exposure and much more. This new ability is even Wacom-tablet enabled for pressure sensitive brushing. Here’s how to add and remove adjustments with the new Quick ... read more
The Curve adjustment in Aperture 3 has a special feature of the "why haven’t I ever thought of that" variety. You can switch to an Extended Range curve that displays values in the curve above 1.0 (extended highlight you camera might have captured).Change Your RangeFrom the Range: dropdown select Extended Range. This shows how ... read more
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
Aperture’s Curves tool lets you drop a point on the curve easily by simply clicking on the curve itself. But what if you want to remove a curve point?Just Right-Click the curve and select Remove Selected Pointread more
The Chromatic Aberration tool in Aperture corrects for lenses that do not perfectly focus all the different colors of light. This can lead to the different color channels being slightly misregistered or offset with respect to each other in the final image, and the visual effect is slight green/magenta or yellow/blue fringes near the sides ... read more
Many Nikon shooters love the ability to use the built-in Nikon Picture Controls to creatively adjust their JPEG images or to use those Picture Controls to automatically adjust their RAW images in Nikon Capture NX. Since the Nikon Picture Control settings are proprietary, Aperture can’t read them automatically on import. So we’ve created a preset of ... read more
The new brushed adjustments in Aperture include a checkbox called Detect Edges. From the sound of it, you’d think that this means "make any brushed adjustment stop at the edge between parts of an image.Brush with Detect EdgesAs you can see, Detect Edges is on here and the Burn adjustment we’re performing is clearly breaching ... read more
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