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APERTURE 2 & AUSTRALIA… reviving and restoring these old and very precious scanned images with Aperture 2.1 it is a lot easier then you think…
©
Gunther Deichmann - restored images...for more and to
compare images
click on the GD
PhotoGallery upper left
corner on this page.
Whenever
I get the time I import some of my very old and
scanned images into Aperture 2.1
some
dating back 30 years. Due to age and storage
condition a few have deteriorated somewhat…loss of
color, fungus due to the tropical environment or just
good old age.
I used to use
Photoshop but now with Aperture 2
there is seldom the
need for it and at the same time I can re-catalog
them into my system with the Metadata. Restoring
Images that are extremely rare in particular old
traditional ceremonies with the Australian
Aboriginals seldom practiced today. I apply a variety
of tools and techniques to retouch the images covered
in fungus, scratches etc. with the
clone or
repair tool,
plus the Adjustment
Panel
gives me a ton of other
adjustments to bring the images back to life.
You be amazed what Aperture 2
is capable off,
including one of my favorites the Monochrome
mixer, given you
all the options for some cool looking Black &
White images, some of these old images actually look
better in Black & White.
I have incorporated a NEW GD PHOTO
GALLERY on my
blog page now, (upper left
side) there you
find a selection of images that have been treated in
Aperture 2 comparing the original with the restored
or converted image next to it. Now and then I upload
images into the GD Photo
Gallery for you
to compare, a lot easier then showing them all on the
Blog direct.
Please remember these are only
low resolution Images.
This is not image manipulation, I am only restoring
some old and precious photos that would have been
lost or considered unusable for publications without
altering the overall visual.
Most of these images had been scanned from slides a
long time ago for preservation and archiving purpose,
now we just go back in Time and fix what needs fixing
nothing else.
Aperture 2.1
handles the tiff format
real well and I have no problems importing files with
over 56 MB in size.
However some of the adjustment tools in
Aperture
2.1 cant be used
since they have been designed to work only with
the RAW image
format, but this
has not stopped me for doing most of my restorations
in Aperture 2
now, archiving and
bringing them back to life again.
GD
iPHOTO and APERTURE 2 do we need them both? You bought a new Mac… iLIFE installed do we really need iPhoto as professional Photographers? I do…
Above
screenshot only, play the presentation and click the
title below:
The
Colors of Mumbai
Click
on
The Colors of Mumbai for a small
sample what you can do in just a few minutes, I
really mean minutes
not hours. Created
entirely on a Mac Book Pro with Aperture
2...GarageBand...iPhoto & iMovie. I have kept the
file fairly small for those of you with a slow
connection of course you can make this much bigger
and have a nice presentation in no time...even when
you on the road. P.S. the
Music has been composed using the Magic GarageBand
setup which took only a few
minutes.
All
of us have these happy family snaps; images of
friends and parties, now is the time (for me) to
use
iPhoto,
keep my personal images separate from my pro work.
But that’s not all I use iPhoto for some of my email,
websites and Blogs very handy indeed and
keeping Aperture
2 for my
pro workload, a nice tidy setup.
Occasional my friends or family members ask me to
store or sort out their personal images, yes I could
do this in Aperture
2 very
easy but my preference is to use iPhoto for this
personal stuff. This has been working very well for
me since most of the time the images from friends,
family, web and blogs are in JPG anyway.
I have found a very nice and efficient way to use
both applications and because of the superb
integration on the Mac I have access to iPhoto
in Aperture
2.1 anyway, plus keeping the
business separate from the private images.
iLife
is not only
iPhoto, you have iTunes, Garageband, iMovie, iDVD
& iWeb it is a whole package, now it is up to you
how to apply each and every one of them, been so
integrated you end up using them all, like I do for
some cool presentations.
What
about iWorks and Aperture 2…stay tuned and find out
soon.
For
all the latest and
New
Images
from Mumbai including B/W click this
link: http://www.deichmann-photo.com/newimages.html
GD
APERTURE 2 TIP…Import Panel is empty but my files are on the Desktop…where are my Photos? Sometimes we forget how smart Aperture 2 really is…
Where
have all my images gone?
My Import panel is empty...
At
times we get too comfortable with the good things…and
I am no exception, in one of my earlier blogs I
praised Aperture
2 with
its do not
import duplicates function…remember
this nice and great feature when you mixed up you CF
Cards…do not
import duplicates,
a really
fantastic time saver when you on the road.
Well yesterday I tried to import some images, which
had been treated outside Aperture
2 from
the same Project, but into a new Album…I had my
images on my desktop and when I tried to import them
into the same project into this new Album everything
on the import panel was blank. (They did originated
from this Project and I exported them a week earlier
for a special selection into a folder on my Desk
top.)
First I could not figure out why these files would
not show up, but then I realized it…
The field in the import panel was ticked at
do not
import duplicates…very clever of
Aperture
2 but not
so clever on my side since I have this checked all
the time when
on the road.
Keep an eye on the do not import duplicates check
box...red
oval
I
had worked with
these files before and they where also part my
earlier Project, of course now they become
duplicates…I wanted to over ride this for a specific
reason and do some more work with them, up on
deactivating the check box all my images appeared and
I imported them in no time.
This is just a little reminder or when you absence
minded, don’t freak out all the images are there
except for a simple mistake.
GD
APERTURE 2 & the .Mac WEB GALLERY…keeping tight schedules and deadlines is easy now…delivered Tibet on time…a real live scenario.
APERTURE
2 & the .Mac WEB GALLERY
delivered Tibet on time…
For more images on
Tibet by Gunther Deichmann visit
his
website @ www.deichmann-photo.com
or visit
his PhotoShelter
Archive
& Collection @
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/stock.html
Deadlines,
deadlines and more deadlines…the last minute changes
by editors or the production staff from magazines… an
all to familiar story.
Take this very recent case; I submitted images from
Tibet for a story in the Asian Geographic Magazine,
the first images where in low resolution…for
selection purpose.
Weeks went by and yesterday the shout for the
high-resolution images came in…
”we need them today”… OK. No problems…I
got Aperture
2 and
since all my high and low resolution images are
stored in my Aperture Library I quickly selected the
“CHOSEN ONES” had them up for downloading on a
New .Web
Gallery with username and
password…that was last night. (see the email
correspondence below)
Today I received the email below…do I have to say
anything else? I guess not…once the story is out this
month I let you have a preview until then…if you need
your images out there fast from one publisher to
another, use the Web Gallery
in Aperture 2, so easy now and happy
faces at the production department.
GD
See
below the original email correspondence from the last
24 hours…
First
email…
Hi Gunther,
Thank you for providing us with the requested
information so promptly under such short notice, we
really appreciate it. :)
Here are the images we require hi-res versions of,
(see attached).
Thank you,
Sabrina
A
few hours later…
Second
email…
Hi Gunther,
Thank you for your quick reply, we do apologize for
the short notice.
I have managed to download all the hi-res images from
the link you provided.
Thanks again,
Sabrina
Fresh APPLES and APERTURE 2… they had a lot in common recently …a simple shot from inside my Hotel Room in Mumbai India…plus one more Black & White…using the Monochrome mixer.
APPLES
+ APERTURE
2
= MUMBAI
INDIA
© Gunther Deichmann - Fresh Apples in Mumbai India
View GD images on India at his
PhotoShelter
archive or collection @
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/stock.html
It
is amazing what you find or have forgotten when you
do some more editing in Aperture a few weeks later.
Remember my recent trip to Mumbai India for
the Apple
Aperture 2 World Tour.
During my stay
at the Hotel I noticed these Apples on this small
Table, I thought…hey not bad, the light, the
reflection and I guess the relationship between the
words Apple and Apples, I shot this scene right in
front of me using only the available light from the
window.
Then in Aperture
2 I used
only the Raw conversion, the straighten tool, a
little cropping and applied some sharpening.
So there
you have it…real fresh Apples from Mumbai
India.
© Gunther
Deichmann - Apples and
window
This shot was taken few
minutes later while sitting on my bed and looking
towards the window, a straight shot I might add…and I
didn’t move the furniture either, no manipulation in
Photoshop, again using only the Raw converter
in Aperture
2, the
straighten tool, a little cropping and some
sharpening.
The
Black & White image below…
© Gunther
Deichmann - Mumbai India April
2008
I saw this women sitting
outside her home in a small alley in central Mumbai,
the original image was color but converted to Black
& White in Aperture
2 using
the Monochrome mixer.
GD
APERTURE 2 Tip...iPhoto Library and Aperture 2.1 how well do they work together? Real well...& so useful if you started in iPhoto and switched to Aperture 2...iLike...or is it iLife.
Before the arrival of Aperture some of us used iPhoto but found it had its limitation… now you installed Aperture 2 and keep going back to iPhoto for these older images…Yes?
No need… you stay in Aperture and have access to all your iPhoto images and can leave them there, no need for importing all the high-end stuff, no more switching back and forth.
As a matter of fact you can do this not only with iPhoto but also with your images stored on your external drives from years ago as mention in one of my earlier blogs.
Now back to iPhoto and Aperture 2, because of the integration everything works just so smooth and the cool part is staying in one software instead open up half a dozen or so…
Check out the screen shot below for more details, so there you have it, full access to your iPhoto Library.
I normally use my iPhoto Library for my Blogs and personal images like the kids and family and use Aperture 2 for my Pro stuff, keeping them separate. The choice is yours how you like to manage your images, it is easy to import your complete iPhoto Library and use Aperture 2.1 working with one software.
That is why I love Aperture…given YOU the choice.
A little tip... if you have mixed up your personal images with some others but like to separate them, import the iPhoto Library into Aperture, once that is done delete all the personal images in Aperture and your images are organized, dont worry your personal images are still in the iPhoto Library since you selected in the import panel leave in current location.
Now you can go back to iPhoto and delete the non personal images...
I call this a real spring clean.
GD
Go to
File in Aperture
2 scroll
down and select Import
then
Import iPhoto Library, make sure you
select leave images
in their
current location.
Aperture
automatically creates a new Folder
(see the
red square on the screenshot)
containing your complete iPhoto Library,
Depends on how many images
you have stored in your iPhoto
Library this could take some time
since Aperture
2 creates
Thumbnails and Previews.
This is a screen shot of my iPhoto Library and you
can see (I selected the underwater images) they are
now in my Aperture Library.
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website @
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/home.html