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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Tip: Don’t Upgrade To Lion Straight Away
If you follow the news about Apple, and many of you probably do, you’re undoubtedly aware that WWDC is tomorrow. In all likelihood Apple will announce the ship date of Lion at the keynote. It might even be available straight…
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…
Video: Search by Usage
I was setting up some metadata templates today and I discovered a few metadata fields I never knew existed before. They were for image usage. It seems Aperture stores, in it’s library a reference if you’ve emailed, exported or printed…
A Few More Import Dialog Tips
I had a post the other day with a few tips for less obvious options in the import dialog box and here’s a few more. The first is from a question I received via twitter. The query was how do…
Adjustment Preset – Fake Polarizer
Here’s a quick preset that I use a lot. When you’ve got lovely sunny pictures with lots of blue sky and you want to add some oomph, I use this “Fake Polarizer” preset. It’s based loosely on the way a…
Quick Tip: Remember the Hard Drive
When people talk about optimising their systems for Aperture they often talk about adding more RAM or, with a Mac Pro changing the graphics card. What people often forget about though is the hard drive. The speed of the drive…
Using the Curves Adjustment in Aperture 3 to add Contrast to an Image
Here’s a quick video on using the new Curves adjustment in Aperture 3 to add contrast to an image, and why you would want to use curves rather than the adjustment slider. I’m still getting the hang of recording videos…
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