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Layout Tool Disguised as Aperture's Book Making Function
Aperture 2.1 includes a more versatile book-making tool than we saw in earlier versions. So powerful in fact, that calling it a book making tool is really selling it short. It's actually a flexible layout application with some very useful output options. In this podcast, Derrick Story talks with Joe Schorr and tries to uncover all the hidden gems buried in Aperture 2.1. Read Layout Tool Disguised as Aperture's Book Making Function.

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Layout Tool Disguised as Aperture's Book Making Function

Inside Aperture

O'Reilly Media's Inside Aperture site draws upon community expertise to provide you with tips and real-life experiences from professional shooters who use Apple's premier photo management application to organize, edit, and output their images. This site features weblogs, articles, podcasts, and tutorials—all focused to help you improve your digital photography workflow. If you'd like to contribute to Inside Aperture, please send mail to

Current Blogs

Out In The Streets
May 9, 2008
For the last couple of weeks I have been searching for the perfect street camera. I have been comparing three “point and shoot” cameras that could potentially fit the bill. I’ve been trying to make a decision as to which...…read more

– Micah Walter

Viveza Plug-In for Aperture v2.1
May 8, 2008
Nik Software released Viveza for Aperture yesterday. This is a plug-in that you’re going to want to give a test drive. It’s really pretty amazing software when you put it through its paces. I first saw a demo of Viveza...…read more

– Ellen Anon

Aperture Makes You Better
May 8, 2008
I’ve been shooting for a very long time, and my enthusiasm for photography has only increased since picking up a camera at the age of 12 and somehow convincing my parents I can use the second bathroom as a darkroom...…read more

– Steve Simon

Black Point and Shadows
May 7, 2008
I've shooting lately in very rough lighting conditions. From shooting kiteboarders in black wetsuits, towards the west, over water, around 1-3pm in hazy conditions to shooting them against the setting sun, it's been one exposure challenge after another. As I've...…read more

– Josh Anon

Let there be ... DFT Light!
May 6, 2008
Drab and gray? Flat? No highlights? It can happen. Maybe you're on location, and it's getting late and the light is fading fast. Or, you're in the studio and there's not enough strobes for the kind of setup you...…read more

– Dominique James

The iTunes Analogy
May 5, 2008
Aperture’s virtual filing/organisational structure can be quite intimidating when you first experience it, but as new as this seemed when Aperture first came out nearly two and a half years ago, it was firmly rooted in existing Apple software and concepts - iTunes (and to some extent, the Finder).…read more

– Ian Wood

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Using the New Adjustment Tools in Aperture 2.0, Part Two
March 11, 2008
In this second of two parts, Ellen Anon (Aperture Exposed and Inside Aperture) takes you through the bottom half of Aperture's Adjustment palette brick by brick. She picks up with the Enhance brick and continues down through the rest of the new tools. This two part article series is a great resource that belongs in any Aperture bookmark list. …continue reading Using the New Adjustment Tools in Aperture 2.0, Part Two

– Ellen Anon

Using the New Adjustment Tools in Aperture 2.0, Part One
March 04, 2008
In this first of two parts, Ellen Anon (Aperture Exposed and Inside Aperture) takes you through the top half of the Adjustment palette brick by brick. This article is a terrific reference piece that that should come in handy time and time again. Next week in Part Two, Ellen picks up with the Enhance brick and continues down through the rest of the adjustments. …continue reading Using the New Adjustment Tools in Aperture 2.0, Part One

– Ellen Anon