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Custom Info (Metadata) Views in Aperture 3

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June 25, 2013 - 4:00am

(There is a video version of this tip at the end)

Metadata is the data about our photos, including EXIF, IPTC and some custom Aperture metadata. In Aperture’s interface, there are three tabs where we have access to, read metadata on, and make changes to our images. The middle tab is called “Info” (formerly known as Metadata), and that’s the one we’re looking at here.

Customizing the default view

The default view is called “General” and contains some critical info, but not a huge amount of it. There’s a lot more info about your photos you’re not seeing here.

The default, “General” metadata view

There are other preset views as well, but the key is that you can edit these views to show whatever you want. Start by going to the bottom of the preset menu and choosing Edit…[more]

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A Photography and Workflow Interview in the Russian Travel Magazine "Voyage"

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June 22, 2013 - 4:00am

Yesterday I posted an article on my photography blog that I thought some of you here might be interested in. I was interviewed (via email) for a Russian travel magazine called “Voyage”, about my experiences and tips on photography, editing on mobile and desktop, and more. It’s funny; I got seven “big” questions (one of which I discarded because I’d already addressed it), and wrote about five pages of response. All of that got compressed to just one page in Russian!

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What Additional Tools Are Essential to Your Aperture Workflow?

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June 20, 2013 - 4:00am

Aperture is the center of our photo managing and editing workflow, but we all have extra tools, plug-ins, tricks and techniques up our sleeves. What completes your Aperture workflow?

Here are the essentials that I have on my system revolving around Aperture and my photography. What do you use? Let us know in the comments!

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Aperture SDK Updated to 3.4

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June 15, 2013 - 4:00am

This should help silence the naysayers…

Aperture’s SDK (Software Development Kit), which are the guidelines and tools that developers need to create plugins for Aperture, was recently updated (2013-06-05) to version 3.4. The update is very minor, but exceptionally signficant. Here’s what the developer page has to say about it.

The Aperture 3.4 SDK provides the same functionality as the Aperture 2.1 SDK, but in addition, provides templates and samples that build with Xcode 4.4 and later, and on either OS X 10.7.5 or 10.8.3 and later.

Why is this significant?[more]

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iOS 7 Photos… the Reason for Aperture 4 Delay?

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June 11, 2013 - 4:06am

I just finished watching the WWDC 2013 keynote presentation, and I gotta say that iOS 7 looks pretty sweet. One of the big things that caught my eye of course was the new Photos app, and its showing of “Collections” and “Moments”. This is notably similar to the service Everpix.com, where your photos are automatically collected into, well, collections and moments, making it easy to find and a pleasure to browse your photos.

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Aperture 3.4.5 and Digital Camera RAW 4.06

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June 6, 2013 - 4:17am
Some recent updates in the world of Aperturelandia…

Run software update to see the latest from Apple

Aperture received a minor update to address a crashing bug, and last week a handful of new cameras gained supported by Aperture (and iPhoto, of course). Click through to read the details![more]

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Fun Backup Infographic

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May 21, 2013 - 7:01am

Things have been slow in Aperture-land, so here’s a little something to tide you over…

I’ve talked about backup a bunch in the past (just go to the Archives page and do a page text search for “backup”) which apparently got some attention; this infographic was sent along to me to consider sharing. It’s cute and relavent, so here you go. Enjoy!

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Backblaze Cloud Backup Now Features iOS App

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May 4, 2013 - 12:00am

This is a nice (and free!) addition to an already stellar service. If you’re a Backblaze user, you can now get a free iOS app to monitor your backups and even retrieve files on the go.

For those new to the site, I’ll say it again… unless you have three copies of a file, the file doesn’t exist.

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Aperture Notifications—What is That Number on My Aperture Icon?

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April 13, 2013 - 1:22am

I’ve received several messages asking about this in the last few weeks, so that means it’s time to write it up!

You may have at some point seen a notification badge show up on your Aperture icon, like you’d see on Mail or Messages, and wonder what it’s for. The simple answer is it’s from a Shared Photo Stream. Whenever someone “likes” or comments on a photo you’ve shared with them, you’ll get a notification anywhere you’ve enabled Photo Stream. That could be any iOS device on iOS 6, or it could also be in iPhoto or Aperture.

We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!

When you see the badge, if you open Photo Stream in Aperture you should see a blue dot on the Shared Photo Stream that has a notification, and if you open that, you’ll see blue dot(s) on the photos that have new likes or comments.[more]

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Recovering Lost Nik Software Presets Following "Full Nik Collection" Installation

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April 7, 2013 - 11:28am

I just installed the “full Nik Collection” (only $126 with the ApertureExpert discount!) and much to my chagrin noticed that a collection of recent Silver Efex Pro 2 presets I’d created were missing. This was kind of a Big Deal™ because I’m working on a gallery show, have been experimenting with settings, and really needed my history of saved attempts to go back on.

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