If you are an Aperture 3 user (and I have no idea why you’d be reading this if you aren’t) and you have an iPhone 3GS (I presume) or iPhone 4 you should select your iPhone images and choose Update from Masters in the Metadata menu item after updating to Aperture 3.1 You will now [...]
Select a bunch of images in Aperture and run this script. It will ask you for a destination folder and create a text file corresponding to each selected image. This text file will contain all of the useful metadata that I could glean from an image using AppleScript.
Albums by Import Session Version 03 Developed & tested on Aperture 3.0.3 This AppleScript will ask the user to pick a Project and then proceed to create Albums based on the images’ import groups. These Albums will be placed into a Folder in the Project named “Import Groups” Albums by Import Session 03.scpt
In previous versions of Aperture you had 2 big import option buttons: Import All and Import Selected. This allowed you to quickly and easily import the whole memory card or just (most likely) the last few shots. This works great: I find it hard to imagine myself not wanting to do one of those actions. [...]
I’m digging the Aperture 3 user manual. It has a great section on the new nondestructive brushes with nice examples of what the brushes do. More helpful, most brushes have a ‘why not do it another way?’ section. For example, the contrast brush has an entry “Why Not Use the Enhance Adjustment?” which, surprise of [...]
It appears that Aperture 3 now allows you to create a Vault on a file server. Previous versions would yell at you if you tried, but Aperture 3 is now happily creating a Vault for me on my backup server. I expect it to take some time. Technorati Tags: Apple Aperture
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 [...]
On-disk Aperture stores all of its data in a special folder called a Library. This folder is a Mac OS X Package and the Finder represents it as a file. The file suffix for an Aperture Library file is ‘aplibrary’. If you want to make a point-in-time backup of your Aperture data (except for preferences) [...]
From its beginnings in Mac OS X Tiger, Automator has been getting rave reviews. Automator opens up automation for the non-technical and allows for practically anyone to create powerful workflows. Since I’ve been an AppleScripter since System 7 Pro I’ve never really used Automator much. I found its building blocks approach to be limiting and [...]
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