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The issue with sending PSD’s to Photo Stream and a simple Automator Workflow to address the problem

Since lion arrived and iCloud went live i’ve been playing around with photo stream. While most people will probably use it to get images from their iPhone onto their computer, it’s also very useful for doing things in the opposite…

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Some Tips for Using Plug-Ins with Aperture

One of the great strengths of Aperture is the extensibility of the software. There is a wide range of plug-ins available for Aperture and they can add to the functionality of the software greatly. Many people develop workflows that involve…

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Cool Trick: Process Your Images With Photomatix Pro

Cool Trick: Process Your Images With Photomatix Pro

I came across an interesting trick the other day and I really like the results so I thought I’d share it. I was watching a training video by Moose Peterson over at Kelby Training. It was a video on Landscape…

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Some Colour Calibration Tips

this is more of a general tip and in that it applies to more than just Aperture, but I thought I’d share some of the lessons I’ve learned recently regarding colour calibration. If you’re serious about your photography, and if…

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Quick Tip: Realtime White Balance Adjustment

Here’s something I discovered yesterday by accident. It’s one of those things that seems obvious in hindsight but I had never even thought of trying it before. If you have an image where the white balance isn’t quite right and…

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Some Before and After Inspiration

I’ve been chipping away at some projects over the last little while and I thought I’d share some of the images I’ve processed in Aperture, to give you some ideas for ways to creatively tweak your own images. I’ve picked…

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Use Aperture For Making Contact Sheets (And Storyboards) to Email to Clients

I’ve been very busy this last week working on some motion graphics projects, but I came across a surprising use for Aperture the other day. Part of the project I was working on required me to send some storyboards to…

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Deleting Rejected Images

If you’ve come over to Aperture from Lightroom one of the features you may be missing is the option to delete rejected images. If you haven’t seen this before, it’s a very handy feature that allows you to delete files…

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Some Ideas For Organising Your Library

Keeping your photos organised is one of the things that Aperture does best, or rather, giving you the tools to organise your photos is what Aperture does best. How you go about that organisation is up to you. When you…

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