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