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Quick Tip: What to do if you’ve accidentally applied a preset on import

I’m sure most of you will never do such a silly thing, but I did this very silly mistake twice last week! I have a workflow worked out for importing images from my Canon 5DII where I apply a preset…

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Some Printing tips and how to avoid some gotchas in the print dialog box

Until recently I did most of my printing via Photoshop. It’s not that there was anything wrong with printing from Aperture, it’s just that I had a workflow that worked for me and I was reluctant to change it. However,…

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Preset: Art Print Red, plus a bonus tutorial!

I was experimenting in Aperture over the weekend (as one does) and I came up with a really nice art print, silk screen type effect. The idea was to create a high contrast black and white look and then tint…

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Quick Tip: Keep Commonly Used Presets in the Main Preset Menu

Here’s a very quick tip (with a very convoluted title!) that might save you some time. I noticed that there are a few presets that I often use regurlarly, much more so than most. These are onces I’ve made myself…

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Quick Tip: Show Additional Options in the Import Dialog Box

Here’s a quick tip for when importing your images into Aperture. You’re probably familiar with the import dialog box by now, but what’s not immediately obvious is that there are additional options that you can turn on, some of which…

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Aperture How To Videos

If you’re a new user to Aperture and want to get up to speed fairly quickly, there’s a great resource on Apple’s website that’s quite easy to overlook. The Aperture section as a great (and pretty big) selection of videos…

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Use Clipping Warnings to Get Your Whites Just Right

The past week or so has seen some unseasonably heavy snow here in Ireland, which of course is a winter wonderland for the average photography enthusiast. One of the things about adjusting images of snow (or any Image with bright…

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Loving the Labels

Loving the Labels

One of the new features in Aperture 3 that I had been most looking forward to is the inclusion of colour labels in the software. I have always felt that Aperture’s 5 star method of marking images had been very…

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How to Speed Up the Zoomed 1:1 View

One of the things that I’ve seen people complain about is the length of time Aperture takes to load the full resolution image when you zoom into 100% by pressing the Z key. Typically when you go to an image…

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