Workflow seems to be a hot topic for Aperture users. Everyone seems to have their own particular way of doing things and I think that it is a testament to the flexibility of Aperture that it can be made to suit so many peoples’ needs so well. Since I may have never blogged about my [...]
This is a repost of an old article I’d had on a previous site. It is in need of updating, but until that happens I’ll post the old version here: A Keynote/Photo Book iPhoto/Aperture books are great. I love photo books. I make a photo book for every big trip that we take. I’ve seen [...]
Thanks to diligent photographer Will Taylor for discovering a key piece to successfully geotagging images in Aperture post-import: it only ‘sticks’ for exported images if your masters are stored outside of the Aperture Library ie they are Referenced Masters. http://brettgrossphotography.com/2008/05/04/how-to-geocode-with-aperture-houdahgeo Thanks Will!
Slimming your Library Recently I saw a posting to the Apple-hosted Aperture discussion forums about Aperture Library cruft. Apparently the poster discovered that if you delete referenced images from your Library the Library doesn’t actually get smaller. He had (naturally) assumed that the thumbnail images would be deleted and that the Library would be smaller. [...]
It looks like Apple added yet more yummy goodness to Aperture with the 2.1 update. New to the Metadata menu is the ‘Update EXIF from Master’ menu item. You may ask why anyone would want to do this- unless you’re geocoding your images. I use HoudahGeo to geocode my images. HoudahGeo is a great and [...]
Aperture 2.1 can now export full Projects with masters consolidated! Wicked cool! No sample script yet, but I wanted to shout out this great new feature-
Make Keywords Real Current version: 03 Built on: Aperture 2.0.1 / Mac OS X 10.5.2 This AppleScript operates on the current selection. This is an update to the previous update and should work properly now. This AppleScript will make Aperture’s virtual keywords real. “Huh?” If you make hierarchal keywords in Aperture (you are, aren’t you), [...]
New AppleScript Features – Yay – sort of John Larson posted some quick sample AppleScripts to his site. While there, you should also probably just subscribe to his blog to make sure you get any updates. I can’t get reveal to work for me, but I dig duplicate. Now I can make my own Albums [...]
Aperture 2 or later Mac OS X 10.5.2 or later This script is more a big stub. It’ll give you the paths for the currently selected images’ masters. It uses 2 methods for finding the master depending on whether the master is managed or referenced. I am sure that I can speed up the managed [...]
I love Aperture books. I’ve been making books since Apple debuted the feature in iPhoto (and I used Keynote to do custom layouts). I make a book for every event and year- it really is a great way to show your photos off. Since Aperture, I haven’t had to resort to using Keynote to make [...]
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