Why didn’t anyone tell me…

As you can see, I use Aperture quite a bit. As with anything you use on a regular basis, you learn its ins and outs and start thinking about how you’d like it to be better. “Vacuuming” the database made Aperture many orders of magnitude faster. I was honestly shocked when I realized how slow [...]

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I’m doing more negative tagging within Aperture, this time it’s for my pre-digital days. The quality varies greatly from project to project, some being bad JPG scans of prints for which I have no negatives, some being medium format scans from a Nikon CoolScan 8000 (which I highly suggest), some being 35mm scans from either [...]

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Aperture is clearly designed well around the digital photographer. There’s always room for improvement, but I became so accustomed to the workflow and environment that I decided to use it to organize my digital conversions of 35mm negatives. Here’s what attracted me to the idea: Easy keywording. I just like the way it’s done in [...]

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