You are here

Tips

Forcing Aperture to Locate Referenced Files

Thomas Boyd's picture
March 7, 2013 - 2:55pm

Version 3.4 of Aperture vastly improved the way the “Locate Referenced Files” works. It does the task much faster and it automatically navigates to the selected offline image when you click on the appropriate drive. These two things are huge time savers.

However, on occasion, it won’t let you reconnect the files. You can navigate and see the file in question, but the Reconnect All button is not active.

Share

A Quick Process for Deleting Unrated Images from an Aperture Project

Thomas Boyd's picture
March 6, 2013 - 11:00pm

I recently decided to go through some assignments and delete “outtakes” from projects where it makes sense to that. A lot of what I do for the newspaper are assignments that will never again see the light of day. They are not assignments that will end up in my portfolio. Many times I shoot over 100 frames to get one or two frames. The images shot building up to the final select are totally redundant and not worth the hard drive space to keep them. 

There’s some risk to this, because it relies on my ability to edit on that given day—maybe I didn’t make the right choice. I minimize that risk by using the Star rating system that Aperture provides. I start out by going through the assignment and assigning one star to every viable image. I will also add a star to every image I shot for identification purposes. For instance, if I write someone’s name down, or someone gives me a card, I will take photo of it so it will always be with the shoot. I also photograph street signs and informational signs at kiosks or anything else that will help someone understand what they are seeing. I give all these images one star. After that, I’ll go through and give the final selects three stars, and then if there’s redundancy, I’ll downgrade redundant images to two stars.

Since I do this on virtually every assignment, it makes it easy to determine what images to delete later. 

Here’s My Process

I select the Project in Browser view. I hit Control+1 to make sure I did, in fact, rate the images properly earlier. I’ll watch the image number count at the bottom to see how many are there.

The drop down menu in the search field shows you the key commands[more]

Share

Aperture Workflow; Stacking for HDR Plug-ins

Thomas Boyd's picture
February 26, 2013 - 9:51am

I’ve been doing a good amount of interior architectural work lately and I’ve been using the Photomatix Pro 4 Aperture Plug-in.

It took some experimentation to establish a decent workflow so I thought I’d spare you and share what I’ve learned.

Share

JPEGmini; Can It Be Used to Reduce Your Aperture Library?

PhotoJoseph's picture
February 23, 2013 - 12:30am

JPEGmini is an app that does one thing — it re-compresses your JPEGs into smaller JPEGs, with virtually no quality loss. In this post, we look at the viability of applying this to your entire Aperture library as a way to reduce the footprint of your JPEG previews, and therefore your entire Aperture library.

Share

Did'ja Hear? The President's Day Sale is ON!

PhotoJoseph's picture
February 19, 2013 - 5:17am

Why buck tradition… it seems every other store in America is having a sale today, so why not ApertureExpert, as well?

to get 25% off

PresidentsDay2013 code on checkout

This code is good through the middle of tomorrow (2/19/2013 @ 12 noon MST, to be precise) so don’t delay!

Share

Solution to the "Aperture Does Not Support the Image Format" Error

PhotoJoseph's picture
February 15, 2013 - 1:00am

I had heard about this on twitter, but not seen it myself until today. I was opening images to edit in various plugins when out of nowhere, this dialog started popping up:

Aperture says: This image cannot be rendered for editing because Aperture does not support the image format. Say whaaa?

Share

Pages

You may login with either your assigned username or your e-mail address.
Passwords are case-sensitive - Forgot your password?
randomness