Aperture 2 Tips – Event View
13 Feb 2008 Leave a Comment
in Aperture, Mac, Photography Tags: Aperture, Mac, Photography
I’m sure it has fewer shortcut to memorize, that means the learning curve of Aperture 2 is much shortened. Basically, all existing functions’ speed are much boosted. From now, I’d like to post some special and useful features. It’s fun digging them out. Aperture made tired digital photography organizing workload to be fun!
When using Aperture 1.x, I would look back to the days that I was enjoying the life of iLife, seems Apple updated iPhoto more frequent but not Aperture.
Select Library -> All Projects, it will show you Apple putting back some cool features from iPhoto. 
And of course if you move your fingertip over the album artwork (Key Photo), you can scan through photos inside the album.
Aperture 2
12 Feb 2008 Leave a Comment
in Aperture, Mac, Photography Tags: Aperture, Apple, Mac, Photography
So many professional photographers are waiting, Apple just released the 2nd version of Aperture finally!!! Just after Apple update its Leopard with 2nd patch which includes most recently DSLR RAW format support. This is the first time I see Apple has upgrade version of software which is only US$99! With 100+ new feature and most important optimized for Leopard, I can’t wait to install the trial! 
Then, it makes so much sense for Apple to release new MacBook Pro if you believe me.
Meanwhile, I haven’t seen Apple HK updated about it yet.
Scroll down a bit in Tutorial section, it has 50 tutorials and each of them you’ve been watched it has a tick in front!
Aperture Useful Shortcut
24 Sep 2007 Leave a Comment
in Aperture, Photography Tags: Aperture, Photography
To know the “art” of Aperture, you need to spend a little memory for these shortcut keys, you will definitely find they increase your workflow speed.
- To make the project pane appear or disappear, just click W.
- And, to make the inspectors and Metadata panes appear or disappear, click I.
- To hide or show the viewer,click V.
- To hide or show the control bar, click D.
- To reveal or hide the semi-transparent pop-up window of the image metadata of a selected or highlighted image, click on T.
- And then, you can press Shift-T to hide or show the toolbar.
- If you want to stack your images while in the process of reviewing them, just select and highlight the images you want to stack together, and press Apple-K.
- Rating an image is easy, fun and fast in Aperture. You can rate any selected image by simply pressing 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. The higher the number, the better the image.
- If you’ve rated a particular image and you want to change it, just type in the new rating (number) while that image is selected.
- If you want to remove the rating, just press 0. If you want to consider an image a reject, press 9.
- To go quickly into full screen mode, just press the letter F. To get out, press F again. So, F easily takes you in and out of full screen mode.
- You can navigate quickly through your film strip in full screen mode by pressing J, K, L. The letter J scrolls it to the left. K stops it. And L scrolls it to the right.
- The left and right arrow keys move your selected image left and right.
- To zoom into a 100% view of the selected image, just press the Z key. To zoom out, press Z again.
- Anywhere you may happen to be in Aperture, pressing the apostrophe key (or the key under the Esc key) summons the loop tool.
- To enhance your image in full screen mode, you can summon the Adjustments HUD (heads-up display) by pressing H.
- To compare your adjustment versus the original image, just press M. The M key toggles between the original image and the enhanced version.
Aperture Loupe Tweak
01 Aug 2007 Leave a Comment
in Aperture, Photography Tags: Aperture, Photography
Loupe (` key) is a very powerful feature in Aperture and Lightroom is missing. You can use it in any scenario of your working space no matter in viewer pane, grid view pane or full screen. It can show you the actual size of pixels of the area you’re pointing to. But I just know you can have more fun with it!
Try to right-click or ctrl-click on the loupe, it will popup context menu with some loupe customization items. I want to show is Use Centered Loupe, I feel it’s more handy and easy to control than the default loupe style because that will rotate sometimes.
For Color Value, you can see the RGB value of the pixel in the center of the loupe. Also you can select 100%, 200%, 400%, 800% 1600% as the loupe magnification ratio.
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