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September 12, 2012 - 8:55am

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Deselecting Images in the Aperture Import Window

By Thomas Boyd

September 8, 2012 - 12:00am

I would say one of the top ten Aperture questions I get from users, many of whom are experienced, is asking how they select and de-select multiple images for import. I think the reason for this confusion is that it doesn’t act quite the way the Finder does in this regard. Not only can you select an image, but the check box needs to be checked for it to be imported.

Often, we shoot more than one assignment on a card and want to separate the images into their respective Projects on import. It’s a way of keeping things tidy before they are actually in the library. Otherwise, you have to go through the extra step of relocating images (in a referenced library).

Uncheck All

The first step is to “Uncheck All”I prefer to “Uncheck All” before I select which images I want to import first. Of course you do it differently if you like. You can also just uncheck the images you do not want to import. [more]

Aperture 3 Quick Tip: Bring Brushes Back Up With Brush Icon

By Thomas Boyd

September 7, 2012 - 12:00am

As long and as often as I’ve used Aperture, I still find things I either forgot about or just never noticed. Many of you are probably the same way, so it’s kind of fun to discover something new.

This little tip falls into that category.

Vault Behaving Better in Aperture 3.3.2

By PhotoJoseph

September 4, 2012 - 4:57am

I’ve noted before that since the 3.3 upgrade, I’d been unable to create a new Vault (starting from scratch). I’m happy to report that since the 3.3.2 update, I’ve been able to successfully create a new Vault again, and run updates on it. My library is larger than most and I know many people had no problems creating Vaults, but I wanted to share that it now worked for me — so if you’ve had Vault issues, it’s time to try again.

Labor Day Weekend Sale & New “Nik Creative Effects” Workshop

By PhotoJoseph

September 3, 2012 - 12:57am

Yes yes, I know it’s a US holiday, but we can still celebrate around the world, can’t we? ;-)

Labor Day Sale!

There is a nice little 20%-off Labor Day sale happening now, along with a new Super Bundle of all Live Training videos for just $40 — combine that with the sale and it’s only $32 for all 22 videos! That’s like getting seven for free, or $1.45 each, or… well you get the idea. Pretty unbeatable, really!

ApertureExpert (not-so) Live Training Session 022: Live Adjustments is Available

By PhotoJoseph

September 1, 2012 - 3:05pm

Sorry for being so quiet lately; after the big Aperture 3.3 push things calmed down again, plus it’s just been super busy elsewhere. In fact I didn’t have time to schedule this last Live Training as an actual live broadcast, so I ended up just recording it and publishing it here. Silly thing is, I wanted this up last week — but my drive dismounted and I couldn’t get to it remotely to finish the job! Oh well, hopefully worth the wait…

In this session I edited a series of real world user-submitted images to demonstrate a live workflow.

Duration: 00:35 hr

Included with membership

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onOne Software’s Perfect Layers is FREE for Aperture

By PhotoJoseph

August 24, 2012 - 7:59am

I don’t know how long this has been the case, but onOne’s Perfect Layers is free! This is a plug-in for Aperture that gives you one of Aperture’s most-missing features — layers.

Odd Importing Behavior in Aperture 3.3 — Thumbnails Appear Offline (But Aren’t)

By Thomas Boyd

August 22, 2012 - 1:25am

Images Show as Offline

I’ve noticed some odd behavior with regard to images showing up offline and also the “Do Not Import Duplicates” not working.

For some reason, as I import images, the files may show up as offline as they are being imported. This is only true in the Browser view with the thumbnails. If you take Aperture to Viewer mode, they will show up correctly as online.

After importing things will return to normal. The only solution to this is knowing that it may happen, and to not freak out. I suspect this will be fixed soon.

The images show up as incorrectly “Offline” as they are importing.

Do Not Import Duplicates

This problems is sporadic. I can’t replicate the problem at will and it happens infrequently. However, I know it’s happening.[more]

Moving Images from Aperture 3.3 to Aperture 3.2

By Thomas Boyd

August 21, 2012 - 5:30am

I just shot a wedding and spent a good deal of time rating over 3,000 images in Aperture 3.3 with the intention of handing the library over to another photographer I work with for post-production and delivery.

But then I discovered that he hasn’t upgraded to 3.3 because his Mac Pro is too old to accept it. It’s only about four years old and otherwise works just fine, so he’s not going to spend a ton of money just to upgrade Aperture quite yet.

It occurred to me that if I exported my original files (not jpegs) and selected “Include IPTC” my ratings should stick and be readable by him in in Aperture 3.2 once he imported them. I wasn’t sure about this so I did a test. [more]

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