Thursday, November 09, 2006

Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 1.5 (Apple Pro Training)



Orlando Luna and Ben Long's updated Aperture 1.5 book was just released. Now fully updated for version 1.5, this comprehensive book-DVD combo starts with the basics of image management and takes you step by step all the way through Aperture's powerful photo-editing, image-retouching, proofing, publishing, and archiving features. Version 1.5's new features are completely covered, including the new image editing tools, expanded search capabilities, new Loupe tool, and support for many more RAW file formats.

Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 1.5 (Apple Pro Training)

Great Articles at Bagelturf



Aperture on a Samba Server.
Deleting Referenced Masters.
Filtering Keywords.


Click here to read Bagelturf's great collection of articles.

Why You Should Try Aperture

"It rocks."
"It is a worry free, easy to use, powerful, slick, beautiful piece of software"
"I find my self popping it open the moment I have some free time to play with pictures"
"If you at all like taking digital photos, Aperture is the one for you"

Click here for Showngo's unbiased review of Aperture.

Bare Feats Core 2 Duo Test



The MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo's advantage over the Core Duo version ranged from 9% to 75% depending on what app we ran. The faster core clock speed should provide an 8% advantage, so everything beyond that is "gravy." Most surprising were the significant gains with Aperture 1.5 and Photoshop CS2.

Click here for the full page of results from Bare Feats.