Aperture 2 only Here is a tip from my newly modified Aperture workflow. One of the best new features of Aperture 2 is that you can now find images that have been adjusted and even find images based on particular adjustments. This is great for me because it makes my Aperture 1.x workflow even more [...]
This AppleScript, written for Aperture 1.5.6 and Mac OS X 10.5.1 (I feel I should specify that now that we’ve discovered some interesting things with scripting Aperture on 10.5) will extract all of the master images from exported Projects. You select the Project bundle and a destination folder and the script does the rest. Extract [...]
Aperture’s Project-based workflow is great. I like to keep my Projects (including masters managed or referenced) scaled to fit onto a DVD. I’ll even split larger Projects so that when I export them they can easily be backed up to disc. I try to take a snapshot of a Project when I know that I [...]
Sharing Masters – With Edits! A lot has been written about how difficult it can be to share a master image with metadata and edits with another Aperture user. Sure, it’s easy to export the master with the XMP sidecar or the edited version as a TIFF, JPEG, or what have you but you can’t [...]
Metadata is the key to a successful image management workflow. Metadata falls into 3 main categories: camera-applied, image properties, and user-applied.
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