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Joe Schorr on Leopard and Aperture

Inside Aperture Podcast 25

by Derrick Story
01/08/2008

Leopard brings a host of new goodies for Aperture users by virtue of the new photography functionality baked right into the operating system. In this interview with Senior Product Manager Joe Schorr, you'll hear some of the most enticing and useful features for Aperture photographers.

Joe does a great job of explaining Leopard's media browser. Basically, you can access your entire Aperture library through other Mac applications such as Mail. This makes it much easier to use your Aperture database as the central repository for all of your images. What gets even better, is that you can also tap your Aperture library directly through open dialog boxes in big time applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Word. There are some great tips here for power users.

Finally, Joe covers Quick Look and Cover Flow. Both of these OS additions can save you time as you manage your photos, especially those you've output and are preparing for delivery.

(Inside Aperture, Jan 8, 2008: 17 minutes, 2 seconds)

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Derrick Story is the author of The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers, The Digital Photography Companion, and Digital Photography Hacks, and coauthor of iPhoto: The Missing Manual, with David Pogue. You can follow him on Twitter or visit www.thedigitalstory.com.

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Thanks, Derrick
2008-01-23 08:58:49 lpainter [Reply | View]

Way Cool!!!! ....Almost.
2008-06-12 01:21:45 tspore [Reply | View]

Ok so I downloaded the demo, and must say that the scripting is very nice. Infact, the create your own album is very, very nice. So thanks for the heads up on this. But I found a couple issues with the script.... If you want to hear them.
#1 - I can use the leopard media browser with no problem. But when I go to "New album from selected images" Only 2or 3 photos show up in the album. I tried 10 different times, with no luck.
#2 - When I click on a image and then select "reveal selected image" - I get an error that it doesn't understand the reveal message.
#3 - IF the image made it to a gallery, even though I can't revel it, I can make a correction to that image, and than when in inDesign I can update it. But only if it found the original image in Aperture.
#4- If the image was found in my library I can also update the caption info. Which is great. But if it wasn't found to make an album, I can't update metadata.
#5 - Same issue as above with the images found.

Really I am very excited to see more and more Aperture scripts working with other programs. I think that Aperture rocks. I know it is just a sample tutorial, but I thought that I would post my issue. If anyone has any suggestions please feel free to let me know.