This one came from a request from the “Ask a question” page. A reader was wondering how you convert negatives inside of Aperture. I immediately thought to myself, what an interesting question! There’s no “invert” adjustment and no negative presets…
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A christmas Preset: Winter Chill
I wanted to do something to Celebrate Christmas and so I created a little preset for you to get you in the festive spirit (for those of you who celebrate Christmas). It’s an adjustment preset that will give your sunny…
How To Fix Highlight & Water Sparkles (With a free preset)
So, I’ve come across a little annoyance in Aperture lately, and It’s been bugging me but I’ve finally found a way to fix it. If you shoot images with very bright but small highlights you can get lots of chroma…
Preset: Purple Fixer – For Fixing a Purple Cast on Images
For some reason some cameras have a tendency to tint images a strong colour purple when taken in areas of shade when the camera is set to daylight white balance. If you’re out walking and constantly moving between sunny areas…
My D700 Workflow
I recently got a Nikon D700 and it’s a fantastic camera. You can read about my initial thoughts and why I got one here. After my experiences with the Canon 5D and Aperture I had some trepidation about how RAW…
Some Nikon D90 Vivid Presets for you
Following on from my experimentation with getting the colours right on my Canon 5D Mark II raw files I decided to have a go at matching the output from my D90 Also. Actually, the D90 files in Aperture are fine…
Aperture’s Handling of Colour in 5D Mark II Files, and a Preset to Fix it
For the longest time I’ve been unhappy with images from my Canon 5D Mark II. On the one hand the resolution is great, and you can certainly get some great images from it, but on the other, I’ve found that…
Faking “Magic Hour” in Aperture
One of the earliest things a Photographer learns about Landscape photography is that the best time to get the most dramatic landscape shots is the hour before sunrise and sunset. However, that’s not always practical when you’re in a spot…
Preset: Basic Oomph
Sometimes when you’re going through your pictures after a shoot you’ll find some that are a little flat but otherwise good. I’ve found myself constantly doing the same routine with these kinds of images: Add a bit of contrast, add…
Experimental Preset: Lomofy
A while ago I showed off some experimentation I was doing in Aperture to see how far I could push the adjustment panel. 21 Adjustment bricks later I came up with a crude holga type look. While it wasn’t of…
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