Tips

Session 003 has been scheduled!

Thanks to all who participated in the poll; the winner at 18% of the vote came to Friday March 25, 3pm Los Angeles, 6pm New York, 10pm London, 6am Hong Kong (the following morning) [see poll results]. When you register, you can display the time in your own time zone—register here.

We’re gonna try something here… use the poll below to tell me when YOU can attend the training, and (in theory at least), the result with the most votes, wins!

And if anyone has a suggestion on a better way to do a global “best time” poll, please comment below. I recognize this is a bit of a mess…

Be sure to select ALL that work for you!

I’ll have to do a “thing” with this software at some point, and for those paying close attention you may remember I was going to do something during development, but schedules went wonky and it never happened. Anyway, I’ve been playing with the free trial and it’s just fantastic.

This little output is a combination of work done in Silver Efex Pro 2, then the text was added as a custom book page in Aperture and round-tripped back as an Aperture TIF using the built-in Save PDF to Aperture script. Yes the titling was originally created in Photoshop, but I described a few posts ago how to do it using free software, too. Click to view larger.

Silver Efex Pro 2 in Aperture

Here’s the original…

UPDATE: Scroll to the end for a video version of this tip!

Aperture 3 added the Trash folder so deleted photos and projects are easily recoverable, but once you empty the trash, what really happens? How are managed vs referenced files handled on deletion? Can you accidentially delete a photo that’s still in use elsewhere in the application? And is there any hope after hitting “empty trash”?

These question and more, tackled below…

Let’s throw some stuff away!

The best way to find out what happens is to try it out, and check the results! So here we go. Here’s what’s going in the trash.

• Project A which contains Photo A1 (managed) and Photo A2 (referenced) in it.
• Album B1 from Project B, containing Photo B1. Note that Project B1 will not be thrown away (so that Photo B1 is still in use, in a Project B).
• Project C containing Photo C1 will go in the trash. However Photo C1 is being used in a Book B1, which lives in Project B. This book will NOT be deleted.
• Photo D1- Version 2 will go in the trash from Project D. Notice that the original, Photo D1, will not go in the trash.

Here’s some screen shots (click to view larger): 

Project A and Photo A1 (managed) and Photo A2 (referenced)

Project A which contains Photo A1 (managed) and Photo A2 (referenced) in it will go in the trash. We want to know what happens to the master files (the .CR2s that were imported originally). Remember, one of those master files lives in the Aperture library (the managed one), and the referenced one is floating around in the Finder somewhere.