New here- I started doing some photography for fun about a year and half ago, using Aperture. During that time I have been trying to complete a ‘photo a day’ journal. I have a lot of crud in my library when I have picked a photo for the day but ignored the others.
Everything is shot in RAW+JPEG pairs. The library is around 250GB. I try and reject the out of focus ones after import but haven’t done so consistently. I’m at a point where I just need time to systematically go through and rate, stack, tag pictures but keep putting it off.
Is there anything that can help automate any of this process? I have recently uploaded my entire collection to PictureLife. Using it’s image processing analysis it is able to pick out pictures it thinks are ‘good’ and assign some form of meta data automatically (taken at night, contain people, etc). All this clever analysis is however restricted to the online version of my library in PictureLIfe. There is no way to extract this information and use it to help organise the library on disk in Aperture.
Does any service/plug-in exist that would automatically detect out of focus pictures or similar image processing? Or do I just need to find some time to do it the old fashioned way?
I’m not all-knowing, but I haven’t heard of any PictureLife plug-in or AppleScript method to help you automate the results. I think you need to implement a disciplined, consistent process starting now and do it always going forward. Then work backwards with that same process in little, consumable chunks. It may take a while and you will probably refine/redo some things over time, but you will eventually get your historical images completed.
The key is to start using a new process now to throw out the bad, mark the good, put them in folders / projects / albums / smart albums, and to keep doing that going forward. If you don’t change now, you only continue to grow your backlog of stuff that needs to be done later.
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