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Hold shift while adjusting in Aperture 3

This comes from MacCreate and I’m a little embarrassed I never knew about it. But I liked it so much I had to share it.

If you’re like me then you like to work in full-screen mode in Aperture 3, get’s the clutter out of the way and let’s you focus on your images. Unfortunately once you start editing and bringing up the Adjustment HUD you might fight it takes up a little more room than you’d like. Especially when you are trying to observes subtle shifts and changes to the image.

Well if you hold shift while dragging any adjustment slider (doesn’t work on Curves) then the Adjustment HUD will temporarily fade out of sight and left you see your image unobstructed while you make your changes.

Check out the images bellow, on the left I’m using the brightness slider, and on the right I’m using the brightness slider but holding down the shift key.

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Aperture, Swedish characters, & the web

This isn’t really a tip or trick, it’s an very annoying bug. I’ve found a problem, with the way Apple’s Aperture handles Swedish characters (ö, ä, and å) that might force me to start using another application. It’s really quite annoying because I love using Aperture and love my workflow in the application.

Basically I did a test and loaded some pictures into the picture bank of my new agency. There we discovered that all the Swedish characters written into the IPTC data become scrambled. You can see an example bellow of how things look on my system, and how they look when they pass into the web.

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Keep your manuals with you

Here’s a simple tip for you … always keep your equipment manuals with you. You never know when you might need to look up a little used feature or custom function. Best of all in this digital age, you don’t even need to have them in your camera bag getting torn up and wasting valuable space. Just download the PDFs from the manufacturer and load them onto your smart phone.

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Metadata & multiple images in Aperture 3

Looking at my Google Analytics page I saw that I got some hits from visitors that were searching for “aperture 3 add captions to multiple images.” Google brought them to the article about my keyword workflow for sports photography which really had no relation to their query and offered no answers.

Since people are searching for information on how Aperture handles adding the same caption to multiple images I thought we could examine it by looking at how Aperture 3 handles metadata entry as whole through it’s various interfaces.

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