The Aperture Blog

Aperture Blog Reboot – Coming This Week

As you may have noticed by now, my timetable for changing to the revamped “Aperture Blog” has been somewhat derailed. I was all ready to go with the new design, but some issues with my hosting on my other blogs (which are important to my business) meant that I’ve had to concentrate on those for a little while. It was a good thing though, as it’s allowed me to re-think the plan. As I’ve mentioned…

Lightroom For Aperture Users Part 3 is now Available

In the latest in this ongoing series looking at Lightroom from the perspective of an Aperture switcher, I’m going to take a look at importing. Getting your images into Lightroom is obviously one of the most important parts of any workflow. Although it might look completely different, Lightroom’s import dialog is fairly similar to Aperture’s in terms of operation, but it important to be aware of…

Preset Store Closing Down Sale – Final Chance to get my Aperture Presets

As mentioned a few times already, I’ll be closing down the preset store soon, as with Apple’s decision to cease development of Aperture, there’s not much point in continuing to sell Aperture presets. However, if you are planning to still use Aperture for the next while and want to get any of the Presets before they’re gone, I’ve put them on Sale till the store closes. There’s up to 50% off on…

A Utility to Export Your Aperture Library to Lightroom or Other Software

Republished from the Lightroom Diary

There’s a useful new piece of software just released (in beta) called Aperture Exporter, from Adrian Grah. He designed it to help ease the pain in moving your images from Aperture to Lightroom, while helping to preserve projects and albums. It will also work for those who want to get their images out in a structured way to use with other software.

What…

I just wanted to update you on the plans for the blog. I’m not posting any more posts on the Aperture blog until the reboot in a few weeks time. I’ll post links to my Aperture to Lightroom series, but I’m not doing any more posts on Aperture. I’ve just too much to do and I can’t keep updating three different websites at the moment. I won’t be responding to comments on previous articles any more…

Video: A Quick Look at Lightroom for Aperture Users

I’ve been promising this all week, and I’ve finally got it finished. This was kind of rushed, and it wasn’t really rehearsed, so I kind of meander a bit at times, so apologies. I wanted to give you an overview of Lightroom, so what I did was took a project (i.e. a couple of images) through from start to finish. I started by…

Lightroom for Aperture Users – Part 1

I mentioned in my last post that I was planning to do a “Lightroom for Aperture Users” set of training but that I wasn’t sure what form that I wanted it to take. Well, thanks to lots of feedback, I’ve decided how I’m going to approach it, which I think will be fair to everyone.

I’m going to start by doing a series of blog posts on the Lightroom Diary in a special series for Aperture switchers.…

Thoughts on Apple’s Decision to Discontinue Aperture, The Future and More

Now that Apple’s bombshell (although not really a bombshell after 4 years without a major upgrade) news on Friday that it was discontinuing Aperture has settled in, I wanted to take some time to share my thoughts on the decision, what it means for me, and what it means for the community of Aperture users. I also wanted to let you know what the future of this site will be and some things I have…

Apple has officially announced that it will cease development of both Aperture and iPhoto next year when the previously announced Photos app for Yosemite ships. Apple told Macworld that “When Photos for OS X ships next year, users will be able to migrate their existing Aperture libraries to Photos for OS X”

Apple has also stated that while they have decided to discontinue Aperture they have no…

Get Raw for Photoshop CC 2014

If you’ve used my little apple script workflow for bringing the raw file into Photoshop as a smart object, and you’ve updated to Photoshop 2014 then you’ve probably discovered by now that the script no longer works. Because the application name has to be hard coded into the script (well, there is probably a different way to do it) I had to update the code for it to work.

If you haven’t seen this…

An important note for Photoshop and Aperture users after the June 2014 Creative Cloud update

If you use Aperture and Photoshop CC as part of Adobe’s creative cloud then you’ve probably already seen all the news this week regarding Adobe’s big release of the creative cloud suite of apps. Among all the others Photoshop has been updated too. If you use Photoshop with Lightroom as your external editor, then you need to be aware that the new version of Photoshop released this week, is a…

I’ve just posted a roundup and some thoughts about Apple’s photography related announcements from yesterday’s WWDC keynoteover on my Photography blog. There was quite a bit to discuss, so if it interests you then head over for a read. One of the big discussions in the wake of the keynote is what is in store for the future of Aperture? I’ve discussed that a bit, and if you’re a die hard Aperture…

Lightroom version of Vivid Extreme now Available

Vivid Extreme for Aperture was one of the first set of Presets that I put up for sale here on the Aperture Blog. It’s been a while so I can’t remember whether it came first or Bleached Bronze came first, but anyway, the Lightroom Version is now available over on my photography site store. With my three previous Lightroom ports I had made the packs large and with lots of extras, but with vivid…

Show two different sets of Metadata at once

Here’s sort of an obscure little tip for you. I’ve been sorting through my library in my second attempt to get thing under some sort of control, and I came across an interesting problem. Well, it wasn’t so much a problem as it was a way to be lazy! Anyway, I wanted to be able to see two different sets of metadata at once. I have lots of different metadata presets set up for my various needs, and…

Apple Camera Raw 5.05 for iPhoto and aperture Update Released

It’s getting harder to spot these Camera Raw updates. If you’re running Mavericks and have auto updates turned on in the App Store you don’t see the updates till you end up on the update page and see what was updated recently. Anyway, Luckily I caught this one the same day! The latest update adds support for just 4 new cameras:

Canon Eos T5 / 1200D

Canon Powershot G1 X Mark II

Nikon D4S

Sony RX10

Creating a “Leave Colour” effect in Aperture

If you’ve ever wanted to create the popular (some would say cliched) “Leave Colour” effect in Aperture, that is where the image is black and white except for a strong primary colour (usually red) then you don’t have to use a plug in or Photoshop. You can actually do it in Aperture with relative ease. It requires a little thinking outside the box, but once you get it set-up it’s pretty straight…