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Introducing “Vivid Extreme” preset pack

I’m delighted to finally be able to introduce you to the results of a little project I’ve been working on for the last little while. It started off by trying to create a decent “Vivid” preset to use on my…

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Photography Workflow Series on Pixel Sync Blog Interviews Yours Truly

Bart Jacobs, the brains behind Pixel Sync, the cool app for your iPad that lets you rate and tag your Aperture library on the go, has started a new series on his blog on “Photography Workflows” and he very kindly…

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Video: Tinting Black and White Images With Curves

Here’s a little technique I’ve been working on for a little while on how to create black and white images and then tint them using the curves tool. In this video I’ll show you my recipe for creating a black…

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Coming Soon

I just wanted to give you an update on what’s going on here at the Aperture Blog. I had written a while ago with the promise of more tutorials and a return to the podcast, but since then not much…

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Introducing Film Candy, Our Second Premium Preset Pack

Introducing Film Candy, Our Second Premium Preset Pack

I’m proud to introduce our second preset pack here at the Aperture Blog, called “Film Candy”. There’s kind of an interesting story as to how this one came about which I’ll share with you in a moment, but first let…

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Aperture 3.2.3 Released

Apple has released a small update to Aperture that fixes some bugs as well as enabling the option to delete images from Photo Stream. It’s available now in your Software update panel.…

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Kodak Selling Its Print Business

I came across this story in one of our national newspapers the other day:
Eastman Kodak, the bankrupt inventor of the hand-held camera, has agreed to sell its online photo services business to Shutterfly for $23.8 million, kicking off the…

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Video: Image Editing With Plug-ins in Aperture

I just came back from a trip to the wonderful city of Vienna and I had lots of shots of buildings and monuments. unfortunately, because the lens I was using has lots of distortion I had to rely on some…

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Forums Beta Now Open to Everyone

I’ve got the beta of the the Forums up and running. For the initial phase I was accepting members by invite only but now I’m opening it up to anyone who wants to take part. Simply head over to community.theapertureblog.comĀ and…

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A New Look for the New Year

January is fast approaching and a new year is nearly upon is. I have some good news for regular readers, this site is getting a makeover and some new features and I hope you’ll be as excited as I am…

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