Apple's WWDC keynote certainly has a focus on photography for iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. No mention of Aperture. Or iPhoto. What does that mean? A lot of questions remain unanswered.
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Aperture and onOne play nice together. There's a few tweaks in Aperture you can do to tighten up the integration even more.
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Dust spots are a fact of life in digital photography. Using Aperture, there's an easy way to find them and fix them.
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On a recent trip, I didn't bother to adjust the date & time in my camera. I knew once I got the photos into Aperture, adjusting the time zone is a breeze.
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It is easy to boost orange tones to enhance the later afternoon sunlight using Aperture's Color Adjustment.
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Aperture's library export and import features open up a wealth of on-the-go workflow possibilities.
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I have a pretty rigid workflow - although each step is more a guideline, not a hard and fast rule. Here's two tips on altering workflow to find those shots you really want to start to work on.
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Reader Mike asked if EXIF Lift & Stamp could support Aperture 3.2.4. With a little tweaking and testing, this AppleScript has been updated to work on 3.2.4.
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Last week, I did a post about the caveat that comes with using Aperture's hierarchical keywords. Today, I post a solution to the problem - a handy little AppleScript that expands the keywords. And it's called ... wait for it ... Expand Hierarchical Keywords. Hey ... I save my creativity for my photos, ok? :)
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Aperture supports hierarchical keywords (tags). I use them all the time and it speeds up my workflow. However, when exporting versions and originals, there is a caveat.
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It's been about 8 months since I published Effective Aperture Workflow. While it's anyone's guess when the next update of Aperture will drop, I think an update to the book is in order. Aperture itself hasn't changed much, although parts of my workflow have matured.
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Aperture's custom metadata fields offer some advantages over keywords to track some items, such as how a photo is processed or where it is shared. Click through for a short video on converting a keyword into a custom metadata field.
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