So, finally, I’ve drawn together my thoughts about keywording in Aperture. My problem with keywording has always been more about “how can I make it easy enough that I will actually do it?”, rather than “what should the keywords be?”. I’ll explain my personal taste for both, though.
I was inspired to look again at [...]
Duncan Davidson posted his impressions of using Aperture 2 in serious production work. I also recently just completed my first shoot since Aperture 2 was released. I’ve been so crazy-busy on FlickrExport 3 and iPhone stuff that I’ve hardly picked up the camera since February.
I was doing some stage photography for our Passion [...]
A while ago, I blogged about my wish-list for Aperture 2. Now that we have the update, I thought I would take a look back:
GPS Metadata Editing
Still waiting for this one!
Ability to lock versions
Nope!
Comments field on Projects
Nope!
Better Handling of externally processed RAW Files
It appears that nothing has changed here since 1.5.
Allow the use of Adobe [...]
I’ve migrated my entire library to Aperture 2, but I’m going to be a bit more careful about migrating to the new RAW 2.0 decoder, particularly with my best images. Here’s my plan of action:
I decided that I was happy to migrate en masse images with no adjustments. Fortunately, Aperture makes this easy. [...]
Aperture 2 can extract metadata about the lens model you used from your image’s EXIF, if your camera writes it. A few little points I discovered about this:
Firstly, the field is not shown by default in the Metadata panel. You have to go to the Metadata tab, disclose the EXIF panel at the [...]
I took my favourite RAW decoder torture test image into Aperture 2 last night to see if the claims of improved image quality held up. I think they do, and here is my example.
Firstly, this is the image processed by Aperture 1.5.4 using version 1.1 of their RAW decoder. It’s OK, but there’s [...]
As I’m sure you know by now, Aperture 2 shipped today. I’m playing with the trial right now, and it appears to be quite impressive. I have a few thoughts already:
The speed argument is over. Perhaps, though, I should say that it has just begun. Nobody argued that Aperture 1.5 struggled for [...]
It’s back to work, back to the old clothes and the chores. It’s still dark all the time up here in Scotland - and when it’s not dark, it’s raining - so I’ve been going back through the 2007 archive and reworking some older images that maybe only got two stars the first time around.
Canon [...]
I’ve seen a few Aperture 2.0 wish-lists on various blogs and I thought I would write mine down. As a disclaimer, I’ll say that I know nothing about any future version of Aperture. I don’t even know that they’re making one, but I think it’s safe to assume that they are.
I was under NDA [...]
I’m working on the keywording post I promised but first I thought I would write some more about how I organise my Aperture library. I’m aware that these blog posts are long, but I hope that explaining my thinking from start to finish on a particular area is more useful than just posting the [...]
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