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Raw Comparison – LightRoom 3 vs Aperture 3

無聊達人 — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:13:27 +0000

Filed under: Aperture, Photography Tagged: Aperture 3, Photography

Aperture Update 3.0.3

無聊達人 — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:16:08 +0000

The software update window pops up and tells me this.

I’m quite get used to Aperture 3 now, though sometimes I would still mess up the new full screen feature in Aperture 3.
In Aperture 2 full screen – f key always shows you single photo in full screen. But in Aperture 3 which depends on the view of main window. If you’re in browser view, pressing f key will bring you to full screen with all photos like in browser view.

It’s happy that Aperture 3 keeps improving. Well, you may criticize why it’s not prefect in the very beginning, but what can be? At least they’ve addressed the critical problems I found. 3.0.1 improved speed, 3.0.2 fixed slow empty trash problem. Hope it’s going to be stable. I’m not looking for any new feature honestly, it’s really good enough or too much. I don’t want it to be another Photoshop, though the new video import, selective editing and curve adjustment are good stuff to replace the need of Photoshop.

I know it will be tones of photos that I need to work on.

Filed under: Aperture, Apple, Photography Tagged: Aperture, Apple, Photo Management, Photography

Aperture 3

無聊達人 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:21:58 +0000

Happy New Year!!

For loyalty Aperture user like me, the greatest news is Apple finally upgraded the long-waiting Aperture! Before that, sometimes we would feel iPhoto seems more advance in like geo-tagging, face detection, Facebook and Flickr photo sharing. And finally, all these have been integrated into Aperture and makes it double in size. I can’t wait to download the trial version before Chinese new year holiday, but I think as the software I use the most, it’s still worth to upgrade. Just like if it’s one of the most useful lens (hopefully Apple provides upgrade package!), so why not go ahead and upgrade?

Honestly I feel it’s not only large in file size, but also more resource consuming. That’s why we can guess Macbook Pro will be coming very soon! I don’t want to replace my MBP yet. So I guess I will work with both Aperture 2 & 3 a while, and I won’t convert my Aperture 2 library to 3 until I feel more comfortable with the speed.

So let’s go deep into the changes I observed!

The user interface of Aperture 3 is very like the same as 2, so you shouldn’t have much problem to start including all the shortcut keys you’re familiar with. Know how to optimize workspace is the task for any Aperture user.

As mentioned, it has Face & Place migrated from iPhoto. In project panel, it looks very much the same as iPhoto, of cause it supports folder and smart album as before.

Aperture 3 is now 64-bit! That means it can allocate more than 4GB of memory. Well actually I feel it’s more CPU bounded than memory…

Good and bad, the old plug-in were written in 32-bit, to use them you have to restart Aperture in 32-bit. However, I think Aperture 3 can let me eliminate the Facebook and Flickr plug-in from now.

Many features for import

Nicer camera setting display

Focusing point display

Flickr and Facebook synchronization, great!

Place (geo-tagging)

Face, it found many strangers, haha!!

New metadata view option

New selective adjustment

Filed under: Aperture, Apple, Photography Tagged: Aperture, Apple, Photography

Aperture X when?

無聊達人 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:27:49 +0000

My practice is to select my favourite pictures and let Aperture to do the rest to upload the pictures while I’m sleeping.
Today I found it didn’t get its job done properly. I checked the Console it has such warning message.

11/11/2009 1:53:40 AM	Aperture	Warning -
conversion from 64 bit to 32 bit integral value requested within NSPortCoder,
but the 64 bit value 9223372036854775807 cannot be represented by a 32 bit value

I think Aperture is relatively out-of-dated for its product cycle especially it should be transited to 64-bit, though I don’t see any need to upgrade at all. Don’t feel good that new users may pick its competitor Adobe Lightroom instead because they have a newer 64-bit version. I still love it more than Lightroom because of the integration with the OS is much better. And for me, I don’t need it to be cross-platform.

And plugins like FlickrExport for Aperture does a great job. And also Facebook Exporter for Aperture.

Hope Aperture X will soon be released. I’ve reserved my saving for it, haha! Why not? It’s more frequently being used than any of my lenses. Digital asset management is so important now as you would easy create several GB of files in a single day.

‘Aperture X’ Scheduled for Launch Before End of Year? – Mac Rumors

Posted in Aperture, Apple, Mac, Photography Tagged: Aperture, Apple, Mac, Mac OS X, Photography

FlickrExport for Aperture 3.0

無聊達人 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:46:55 +0000

I’m a heavy Aperture user, uploading edited photos to Flickr is always the last stage of my image workflow.
FlickrExport for Aperture is always the first Aperture plugin that I need.
They improved the interface of grouping, ordering and geotagging.
They just announced 3.0 upgrade, existing user can upgrade in half price.
Though I guess Apple may have Aperture 3 with Facebook and Flickr support like iPhoto 09′, I just can’t wait.
It also has lite version with limited feature.

Posted in Aperture, Flickr, Photography, Web Tagged: Aperture, Apple, Flickr, FlickrExport, Photography, Web

Aperture Smarter Filter

無聊達人 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:22:30 +0000

My “kai” dad found me quite often recently. He wants to get new Nikon D90 and also replaced his Nikon 18-200mm VR f/3.5-5.6 to Nikon’s DX king 17-55mm f/2.8. So bad, he should get mine when I sold mine few months ago. Now he asks me for some sample pictures taken at 17 & 55mm end wide opened.

Thanks to Aperture, it’s too easy to achieve an old man’s troublesome request!

Other than keyboards we would normally touch on, Aperture also provides EXIF, IPTC, adjustment as filtering criteria.

Posted in Aperture, Photography Tagged: Aperture, Apple, Photography

Mac OS X Supports Nikon D700 Raw

無聊達人 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:36:25 +0000

Except the update of Mac OS X to 10.5.5 another great news for me is the OS supports my Nikon D700 raw file (NEF) natively. That means I can start shooting RAW now and it’s so easy to manipulate it in iPhoto / Aperture!

Posted in Aperture, Apple, Mac, Nikon, Photography, Software Tagged: Aperture, Apple, Application, Mac, Mac OS X, Nikon, Nikon D700, Photography

Photographer & Snowboarder

無聊達人 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:12:27 +0000

Recently I heard O’reilly’s Aperture podcast, it interviewed some sport photographers in Beijing Olympic game. This time, a female photographer – Mine Kasapoglu. When I checked her web site, it made me really crazy! Of course, she’s a photographer, a Nikonian, but also a professional Mac user, and also a snowboarder champion!!

Oh my God! It’s such a prefect person for me! I love her portfolio so so much!! I think I’m sharing the same interests but without the word “pro”.

Apple – Pro – Profiles – Mine Kasapoglu
O’Reilly — Mine Kasapoglu on Location in Beijing
minekasapoglu.com

Aperture Library Rebuild and Consistency Check

無聊達人 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:33:56 +0000

Haven’t talked about Aperture 2′s powerful features some days, it’s time to explore some of them.

Press option + command key when you open Aperture 2, it will bring up a dialogue, where you can rebuild or check consistency of your projects.

Vacuum! If you’re developer, you would expect this is a procedure to free space or boost performance of database. I guess it also applies to Aperture 2 internal database.

Aperture World Tour

無聊達人 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:47:50 +0000

They will come to Hong Kong on 20 Mar, 2008. But too bad I can’t join