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Apple Aperture

Now discontinued, Aperture was Apple's Mac-only professional photo organising, processing and non-destructive editing program. It was a direct rival to Lightroom, but while it had far more sophisticated and effective image organising tools, it fell behind for editing tools and was eventually abandoned.

Can Apple Photos replace Aperture?

April 23, 2016 by Rod Lawton

When Apple announced it was going to discontinue its professional image-cataloguing application Aperture, but that a brand new Photos app was on its way, many (including me) obviously hoped that Photos would go some way towards replacing our favourite application. These hopes were raised by early screenshots showing some powerful-looking editing tools. Well the dust […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Apple Aperture, Apple Photos

How to make sense of the Aperture Loupe options!

February 5, 2014 by Rod Lawton

Aperture Loupe settings

The Aperture Loupe tool is one of its many excellent features, but it’s easy to get confused by the zoom and loupe size options. The keyboard shortcuts look so similar it’s hard to remember which does what, and if you’re anything like me, you end up going round in circles. So I thought I’d better […]

Filed Under: Tutorials Tagged With: Apple Aperture

How to batch process special effects with the DxO Nik Collection

January 16, 2014 by Rod Lawton

Color Efex Pro batch processing

If you’re anything like me, you spend a lot of time dabbling with one special effect, moving on to another image, trying another effect and keep on experimenting without a specific aim in mind. Wouldn’t it be better to put the effects you like already to some constructive use, rather than continually roaming your effects […]

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Filed Under: Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Apple Aperture, Batch processing, Nik Collection

Aperture users: 3 ways Lightroom could drive you mad!

January 15, 2014 by Rod Lawton

Aperture albums vs Lightroom collections

Aperture users are bound to take a sneaky peek over the garden fence from time to time at its chief rival, Lightroom. Lightroom has some great editing tools and every release brings more. If only Aperture had automatic lens corrections, a Graduated Filter tool, Radial Filter, the perspective-correcting Upright tool and all the rest! By […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Apple Aperture, Lightroom, Organising

Aperture review just posted

January 3, 2014 by Rod Lawton

Aperture review

Mac owners have a choice of top-quality image-cataloguing tools. Adobe Lightroom is available for both Windows and Mac machines, but it faces strong competition from Apple’s Mac-only Aperture application. If you don’t yet know what Aperture does and how it works, why not read read our brand new, full Aperture review. You could be missing […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Apple Aperture

How to import Aperture effects

December 30, 2013 by Rod Lawton

How to import Aperture effects

Aperture comes with a small selection of ready-made effects which you can apply to your photos simply by selecting them from a menu. But did you know you can import new effects created by others? It’s really easy to do, and here’s how. 01 How to edit your Aperture effects With the Adjustment Inspector open, […]

Filed Under: Tutorials Tagged With: Apple Aperture, Presets

The ticking time-bomb of non-destructive editing

December 27, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Non-destructive editing

I had a horrible thought today. Like everyone else, I’ve been saying non-destructive editing is fantastic. It’s smart, it’s efficient, and it changes the way we work. It’s the most important innovation in digital imaging this century… But wait a minute. What if I had to stop using Lightroom or Aperture tomorrow? How many images […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Apple Aperture, Capture One, Non-destructive editing

8 things you need to know about managed vs referenced files in Aperture

December 22, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Aperture managed vs referenced files

Aperture used to be like iPhoto – all the pictures you added were stored in its internal library, a single file which ring-fenced your shots from the outside world and enabled you to move your library around as a single object. You can still do that with the current version. It’s simple and secure, but […]

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Filed Under: Tutorials Tagged With: Apple Aperture, Organising

How to create an Aperture solarization effect

December 9, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Aperture solarization effect

Solarization adds a dramatic and surreal look to regular black and white images. Darker shades of grey and midtones stay unaffected, but brighter tones and highlights are reversed into a negative image. It’s particularly effective on bright skies. You might imagine you need a plug-in to achieve this kind of effect, but in reality you […]

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Filed Under: Tutorials Tagged With: Apple Aperture, Black and white, Solarisation

Who needs Photoshop when you can use Perfect Layers 8 with Aperture and Lightroom?

December 5, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Perfect Layers 8 basics

Aperture and Lightroom fans will need an external image-editor for more advanced image enhancement and manipulation – particularly if it involves combining multiple images as layers. But your external editor doesn’t have to be Photoshop, or even Elements. Perfect Photo Suite 8, just out, has a new version of its Perfect Layers plug-in which makes […]

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Filed Under: Tutorials Tagged With: Apple Aperture, Lightroom, ON1 Perfect Suite

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