After trying iPhoto 09 for a few days, I’ve decided to go back to Aperture for several reasons. Although I like iPhoto’s faces & places feature, it’s still missing many of Apertures features. Hopefully faces & places will be added to Aperture 3.
Here are my favorite Aperture features that are missing from iPhoto:
Aperture lets [...]
I don’t know if this is documented anywhere, but I found that it’s possible to create a smart album to track photos that have been uploaded to Flickr using the FlickrExport plugin.
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FlickrExport adds a metadata tag with the Flickr URL when it uploads a photo. When you create a smart album, one [...]
I’ve released Watermark 1.0. Download it here or visit the project page.
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The Watermark plugin is fully working. I’m now working on the documentation and I hope to release it in a day or so.
Here’s my first official copyright marked picture, which I took today. This baby bird is nesting outside my neighbor’s window.
I had a chance to do a lot more work on my watermark plugin this weekend and I made lots of progress. Most functions work, but I still need a few days of QA & testing before I can release it.
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Black Star Rising tells why you should add your name and copyright [...]
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Creaceed has released a new version of Hydra, which includes a new HDR plugin for Aperture 2.1.
It doesn’t offer as many options as Photomatix, but the results are very nice. These were created with the same source images I had previously processed with Photoshop and the Photomatix plugin. The results look very natural, although it [...]
I really like the aged photo effect you can create at this Japanese website, so I attempted to duplicate the effect in Photoshop. These pictures I took in San Francisco last year seemed to be a good subject.
For my first attempt, I used the Aperture 2.1’s sepia tone & vignette effects and then used Photoshop’s [...]
