Lots of free goodies from onOne Software today! Check out Perfect Effects 8 Premium and a couple of Aperture Effect Preset packs, all totally free!

Listeners were asked to submit their toughest questions to ApertureExpert for this Live Training video, and we got some great ones!

Many of us are fortunate enough to have multiple Macs. Maybe a couple at home, or a desktop and laptop, or one at home and another at work. Whatever the situation, if you’re using Aperture on both systems (especially if you’re using a common library that you’re shuffling around on a hard drive) having differences in the settings and presets can be frustrating. In this post, we explore where all those settings live so you can easy copy them from one system to another.

ApertureExpert is looking for authors. Anyone can post a tip on here, but the site could use a couple of regular advanced contributors who will be compensated for their work. Interested? Read on…

Aperture offers a variety of way to tag your images, including ratings (one through five, plus ‘reject’), flagging, and color labels. This session explores these options and suggests where and when you might use each of them. This is one of those “you can do it your way” features, and understanding how they work will help you decide how to best integrate them into your own workflow.

Listeners are being asked to submit their toughest questions to ApertureExpert for this Live Training video. Submit your questions today!

Do you find yourself consistently applying the same “look” to your photos in Aperture? For example, you always increase saturation, lower exposure, recover highlights, etc.? If so, then consider saving those as a preset and applying at the time of import to save a step down the road.

Aperture offers a variety of way to tag your images, including ratings (one through five, plus ‘reject’), flagging, and color labels. This session explores these options and suggests where and when you might use each of them. This is one of those “you can do it your way” features, and understanding how they work will help you decide how to best integrate them into your own workflow.

We patched the Heartbleed bug the day it was announced on ApertureExpert.com, but it occurred to me we never announced it. There’s virtually no data that was ever at risk, but read this post for more details.

After the previous two posts, if you’re a Photo Mechanic user, you may be considering switching by now. This post is all about how to make that happen—how to match your familiar Photo Mechanic rating system, keyboard shortcuts, and much more in Aperture. Before diving in and trying to figure it all out on your own, read this post and see just how familiar Aperture can feel to seasoned Photo Mechanic users.

Recently I met with Jeff Cable, Olympic photographer and Lexar Marketing Director, to put Aperture head-to-head with Photo Mechanic for his (and every other Olympic photographer’s) extremely time constrained workflow. The end result was nothing short of epic, cutting the import, select, edit and export time by one third. With this new super-fast import method, and Aperture’s built-in editing tools, allowing Photo Mechanic loyalists to bypassing the Camera RAW –> Photoshop –> Photo Mechanic roundtrip delay, there’s no reason any shooter on deadline shouldn’t be switching to Aperture immediately.