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A Look Inside the Aperture Nature Photography Workshop
While at PhotoPlus Expo in NY, Derrick Story sat down with Rob Trueman and Cathy Chung to talk about their experiences with the Fall 2008 Aperture Nature Photography Workshop in the Grand Teton National Park. Rob and Cathy were two of the four contest winners who earned a trip to the Grand Tetons where they received one-on-one instruction. During this discussion they talk about what they learned and how they are applying that knowledge now. Read A Look Inside the Aperture Nature Photography Workshop.

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O'Reilly Media's Inside Aperture site draws upon community expertise to provide you with tips and real-life experiences from professional shooters who use Apple's premier photo management application to organize, edit, and output their images. This site features weblogs, articles, podcasts, and tutorials—all focused to help you improve your digital photography workflow. If you'd like to contribute to Inside Aperture, please send mail to

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Always By My Side
November 20, 2008
It has been a mantra of mine, always carry a camera with you because you never know when a great photo will present itself. That being said, there have not been too many times when that mantra has yielded great...…read more

– Steve Simon

Long Term Image Storage and Aperture
November 19, 2008
How many of you have heard of Cinerama? You can read about it on Wikipedia here, but the short story is that it's an obsolete film technology that used 3 35mm projectors to create a widescreen image. Mainly used during...…read more

– Josh Anon

Referenced setup saves the day!
November 18, 2008
To a photographer whose work depends largely on flawlessly running Macs, any manner of hardware failure can qualify as a major disaster, perhaps leading to quiet panic and maybe even desperation. The idea of losing everything can elicit a hopelessly...…read more

– Dominique James

Backup Strategies - Practising What You Preach...
November 17, 2008
I've always been happy to tell people how they should have multiple backups of all their important files, in multiple places - but I've never been quite as strict about it doing it myself as I should have been...…read more

– Ian Wood

Seeing RED
November 14, 2008
I received quite a few comments on my post last week regarding my short list of wishes for Aperture 3.0. There were a number of similarities, but one aspect of the comments struck me as sort of odd. It seems,...…read more

– Micah Walter

Time-Saver Tip
November 13, 2008
Here’s a great power-user tip that could save you lots of time and speed up your work flow. Lift & Stamp and Batch changing of metadata are powerful ways to quickly make changes to large numbers of images in one...…read more

– Steve Simon

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Reader Submitted Tips for Aperture
May 15, 2008
One of the fun things about running the "Inside Aperture" site is receiving reader contributions. Every now and then a clever new technique shows up in our aperture@oreilly.com mailbox, many of which I try. But why should I get to have all the fun? So, this week I'm sharing a handful of reader-submitted techniques. My guess is that you'll find one or two particularly useful. …continue reading Reader Submitted Tips for Aperture

– Derrick Story

Using the New Adjustment Tools in Aperture 2.0, Part Two
March 11, 2008
In this second of two parts, Ellen Anon (Aperture Exposed and Inside Aperture) takes you through the bottom half of Aperture's Adjustment palette brick by brick. She picks up with the Enhance brick and continues down through the rest of the new tools. This two part article series is a great resource that belongs in any Aperture bookmark list. …continue reading Using the New Adjustment Tools in Aperture 2.0, Part Two

– Ellen Anon

Using the New Adjustment Tools in Aperture 2.0, Part One
March 04, 2008
In this first of two parts, Ellen Anon (Aperture Exposed and Inside Aperture) takes you through the top half of the Adjustment palette brick by brick. This article is a terrific reference piece that that should come in handy time and time again. Next week in Part Two, Ellen picks up with the Enhance brick and continues down through the rest of the adjustments. …continue reading Using the New Adjustment Tools in Aperture 2.0, Part One

– Ellen Anon