Software updates worth noting
3 Apr 2008 3:11pm GMT Over the week-end, there were 2 announcements made that deserve a quick mention. Apple have upgraded Aperture to version 2.1 This is a quick update after the recent launch of version 2.0 and not only includes a number of bug fixes and performance updates but also adds a new plugin architecture. To demonstrate this, a dodge and [...]
Photographers rights
19 Mar 2008 5:40pm GMT I have seen a lot of information lately on various websites and in the photographic press about the Police and their ignorance when it comes to the rights of photographers and the law in general with regard to photography. I find it amazing that the officers of the law themselves have been known to actually make [...]
Aperture’s Quick Preview
19 Mar 2008 9:42am GMT I was chatting with Damien a couple of days ago about Aperture and photography in general. One of his comments about Aperture referred to the loading notice you get whenever you switch view to a new image in the viewer. I have been playing with this and although it is still quick to change, it [...]
Aperture 2 - Happy at home
17 Mar 2008 10:41am GMT My copy of Aperture 2 arrived this week-end and it has been installed and the sample projects imported. I downloaded the demo about 2 minutes after it was released and not being one for impulse decisions, about 2 minutes later I decided that I will move my workflow from Lightroom to Aperture! Within those 2 minutes [...]
Macbook Pro diet
21 Feb 2008 12:03am GMT I just used Monolingual to recover nearly 4GB of space on my Macbook Pro’s HDD. I am very tempted to try the option that removes the PPC elements as it seems to be quite safe. The application’s FAQ says this; You can use Monolingual to remove non-Intel architectures for your installed applications (even if some of [...]