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Adjust Curve Points With Arrow Keys in Aperture

By Thomas Boyd

June 12, 2012 - 4:00pm

While we’re on the subject of the Curves adjustment brick, I thought I throw one more tip up.

Click on a curve point then hit your arrow keys to adjust.

A Quick Look at Some of the Changes in the Adjustment Panel

By Thomas Boyd

June 12, 2012 - 5:58am

Take a look at some obvious changes in the adjustment bricks:

The most obvious is the new Professional Auto Enhance button. This is the single most significant change to the way will start adjusting images. I can’t imagine very many situation where you wouldn’t want to start there, just to see what it does. If it looks good, move on! Next!

Brushable white balance opens a lot of creative possibilities.

Aperture 3.3 Software Update Ready to Download

By Thomas Boyd

June 12, 2012 - 5:35am

When booting up Aperture 3.3 for the first time it prompts you to update iPhoto as well. When you do the App Store appears.

If you launch 3.2 library it will upgrade the library.

Aperture 3.3 is ready to install via the Software Update.

Reaction to Updated Aperture

By Thomas Boyd

June 12, 2012 - 4:16am

Source: http://www.apple.com/aperture/whats-new.html#library

First off, this doesn’t appear to be Aperture 4, but nonetheless is a significant update.

Optimized for Retina Display

This is great for the lucky ones that are going to buy a new MacBookPro. I’m not one fo those. I have a very new MBP that will have to last me for a few more years. Having said that, I’m very curious to see how photos look. I expect it will be magnificent.

Aperture 3 Updated!

By PhotoJoseph

June 12, 2012 - 4:05am

It’s not the 4.0 we’ve been waiting for but here we go…

Retina Display Support
Aperture and iPhoto Unified Library
Advanced White Balance
Improved Highlights and Shadows
Professional Auto Enhance
Fast Browsing

Full description here: What’s New

More to come soon…

Something is Coming…

By PhotoJoseph

June 12, 2012 - 3:04am

Watching WWDC live and there was a reference to a new Aperture while showing off the MacBook Pro Retina Display.

Things are looking up…

Removing a Curve Point in Aperture

By Thomas Boyd

June 12, 2012 - 12:00am

Back in November, 2011 Joseph wrote about the new feature in Aperture 3.2 that added a new Auto-Curves behavior, and how to get Curves to act like it did in the previous version. As it turns out, if you don’t want the S, just option-click.

To take this even further, it’s possible to removes individual curve points with a control-click.

Two New User Tips: Smart Album Verification and Importing CF Cards to the iPad

By PhotoJoseph

June 3, 2012 - 12:01am

There are two great new User Tips up for your weekend enjoyment…

Simple Verification of Smart Album Searches by David Moore

Importing CF Cards to the iPad by Michael Ball

Files Exported from Aperture 3 Keep Their Color Labels

By Thomas Boyd

June 2, 2012 - 12:00am

If you haven’t used Color Labels in Aperture much, you may not know that the color stay with the image file even after they are imported. This can come in handy when you are looking at the images in the Finder.

Oddly, they do not show up in all other photo viewing apps, like Photo Mechanic. However, Star Ratings from Aperture will show up in Photo Mechanic.

Another Way to Determine What Adjustments Have Been Made to an Image in Aperture 3

By Thomas Boyd

June 1, 2012 - 12:00am

Sometimes I like to see a good list of what’s been done to an image. Of course I can just look a the adjustment pane, but I’ve found the lift and stamp tool provides a nice history of adjustments that is easier to determine what’s happened. It’s closer to the History palette in Photoshop.

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