Aperture offers a variety of way to tag your images, including ratings (one through five, plus ‘reject’), flagging, and color labels. This session explores these options and suggests where and when you might use each of them. This is one of those “you can do it your way” features, and understanding how they work will help you decide how to best integrate them into your own workflow.

Listeners are being asked to submit their toughest questions to ApertureExpert for this Live Training video. Submit your questions today!

Do you find yourself consistently applying the same “look” to your photos in Aperture? For example, you always increase saturation, lower exposure, recover highlights, etc.? If so, then consider saving those as a preset and applying at the time of import to save a step down the road.

Aperture offers a variety of way to tag your images, including ratings (one through five, plus ‘reject’), flagging, and color labels. This session explores these options and suggests where and when you might use each of them. This is one of those “you can do it your way” features, and understanding how they work will help you decide how to best integrate them into your own workflow.

We patched the Heartbleed bug the day it was announced on ApertureExpert.com, but it occurred to me we never announced it. There’s virtually no data that was ever at risk, but read this post for more details.

After the previous two posts, if you’re a Photo Mechanic user, you may be considering switching by now. This post is all about how to make that happen—how to match your familiar Photo Mechanic rating system, keyboard shortcuts, and much more in Aperture. Before diving in and trying to figure it all out on your own, read this post and see just how familiar Aperture can feel to seasoned Photo Mechanic users.

Recently I met with Jeff Cable, Olympic photographer and Lexar Marketing Director, to put Aperture head-to-head with Photo Mechanic for his (and every other Olympic photographer’s) extremely time constrained workflow. The end result was nothing short of epic, cutting the import, select, edit and export time by one third. With this new super-fast import method, and Aperture’s built-in editing tools, allowing Photo Mechanic loyalists to bypassing the Camera RAW –> Photoshop –> Photo Mechanic roundtrip delay, there’s no reason any shooter on deadline shouldn’t be switching to Aperture immediately.

One of Aperture’s greatest advantages is it’s ability to quickly search by nearly any parameter. Not only can you search, but you can create “Smart Albums” that are essentially saved searches, allowing you to search all or any part of your library with a single click. In this video, we explore the entire search dialog, showing all of Aperture’s extensive search capabilities.

Recently I interviewed Olympic photographer Jeff Cable about his Photo Mechanic based editing workflow. His perception, along with nearly every other photographer at the Olympics, was that Photo Mechanic is hands-down the fastest way to import your photos. While nearly everyone accepts that it’s quicker to use Aperture or Light Room to edit your selects, both have been shunned as importing too slowly. Aperture made massive improvements to import performance in 2012, and in many situations was even the speed champion. But as you’ll see in the following article and videos, in this massive-import, intense deadline situation, Aperture was being left behind. Or rather, it was… until now.

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The ability to search for your images quickly throughout your entire library is one of Apertures greatest strengths. The search dialog is incredibly powerful, and on top of that, you can create Smart Albums; albums with saved search criteria that auto update whenever you view them.

Live Training Session 103, “Folders & Projects & Albums, Oh My!” is now available for download. Another hour long training session!

What do you get when you lock a seasoned Olympic photographer and dedicated Photo Mechanic user in a room with the ApertureExpert, a stack of fast Lexar cards and readers, a MacBook Pro retina and video camera for several hours? A new, double speed workflow. Yes. Double.

It’s time for ApertureExpert Live Training Session 103, “Folders & Projects & Albums, Oh My!” where we’ll learn all about… you guessed it… folders, projects, and albums. Click through for the schedule and how to watch live, for free.

It’s that time again… another Digital Camera RAW Update! This one hits six cameras from Fujifilm, Nikon, Panasonic and Pentax.