Referenced or Managed files in Aperture
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Tips & Tricks on February 13th, 2011
There seems to be a never ending debate among Aperture users as to wether they should use managed libraries or referenced libraries. The difference being that managed libraries have the application store all your pictures in a single file, and referenced libraries let you select a location where all your pictures will be saved in hierarchal folders.
When I first started using Aperture I created a referenced library. I’ve always been good with computers and felt that I should be able to see exactly how my pictures are saved and stored. After using the application for several years I started to realized I never ever accessed the pictures from outside of the program. Any task I needed to do it was simply faster and easier to launch Aperture and find the picture I needed. I also started to see some of the shortcomings of having a referenced library. I migrated my entire system from a MacBook Pro to an iMac and it caused every image in the library to disconnect from it’s master file, even though my user name and all my system settings were identical on the new machine. Same thing after doing a clean install of OS-X when I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Both times it was a quick fix, but it was still an unnecessary waste of time especially considering I wasn’t benefiting from maintaining a referenced library.
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My Aperture 3 keyword workflow
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Tips & Tricks on February 9th, 2011
Adding keywords images is something that’s been on my mind for some time now. Having moved into sports photography I am now shooting and importing thousands of images on a regular basis. I wanted to examine and improve how I keyword images in order to avoid finding myself with a gigantic picture library that is impossible to search through and manage.
Having put a lot of thought into it I’ve developed a 3 step approach that I can follow starting from when I import my images, continuing to when I rate and reject images, and ending when I touch up and export images. It might seem like a lot of work but it’s fairly fast as you add a lot of the keywords while doing other tasks.
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Stop Aperture 3 from freezing when quitting
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Tips & Tricks on August 31st, 2010
Since upgrading to the latest version of Aperture (3.0.3) I started experiencing a bug where Aperture would freeze when trying to close down. Aperture would say that it was “updating information for sharing previews” but it would simply hang on that screen and not go anywhere until you were forced to Force Quit the application.
This is a pretty severe bug for anyone working regularly in the application, and after becoming irritated that it was happening on a regular basis I decided to do some investigating.
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