Photography Quick Tips: Five ways to immediately improve your photos

By Rudy Lopez, on August 19th, 2008%

Here are a few things you can do to make expressing yourself with photos easier.: Must you stand so close? It doesn’t matter if you are taking a photo of a person or a landscape, it is important that you get as close to the subject as you can. Our brain interprets distance and . . . → Read More: Photography Quick Tips: Five ways to immediately improve your photos

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Aperture 2 Tutorials #2 – Selecting, Editing, Cropping, and Exporting Photos

By Rudy Lopez, on August 16th, 2008%

Now that your new images have been cataloged in the Aperture 2 library, it’s time to select, edit, and export the shots. You will need files that are versatile, good for print and web. Excerpt from the video: This tutorial will lead you through the selection, editing, cropping and rename-export process.

  1. Open Aperture 2 and select the project you want to work on.
  2. Click the Quick Preview icon to keep RAW images from loading while making selections.
  3. Make your selections by clicking the green checkmark. This will assign 5 stars to the image. You can isolate your favorite images by filtering the five star rated images.
  4. You will need to disable Quick Preview in order to edit the images.
  5. Watch the following video for the rest of the tutorial.

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Aperture 2 Tutorials #1 – Importing and Organizing Photos

By Rudy Lopez, on August 16th, 2008%

Aperture 2 can be a daunting program without any guidance. The following video is the first tutorial in a series designed to make using Aperture 2 easier to use. This video covers workflow from beginning to end, importing photos and getting organized. Excerpt from the video:

  1. Create a folder called “dump folder” on your desktop. This is a permanent folder, you will use it to temporarily hold all new pictures until they are uploaded into an Aperture 2 Library.
  2. Create a folder with a name you would like to have for the project. We will call this folder “House Plant Photos.”
  3. Set Image Capture to import into the “dump folder.” Download Images.
  4. Drag the images from the “dump folder” into the project folder.
  5. Watch the video below to learn the rest!

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