[DM-MUG] Notes on Aperture

[Victoria L. Herring]

>  It startled me to hear that Photoshop Elements is better at 
>actually editing photos, etc.  Am I correct in my impression that it 
>is valuable mostly as a better way to manage large photo libraries?

I just like PSE for final adjustments but that is more a function of 
my not using Aperture as much as I should = others, more active 
users, do alot of adjustment in Aperture and skip PS or PSE...I jsut 
havent' progressed that far.  You might want to download demo and try 
it out for both funcitions, I just havent' yet as much for adjustment.


What I have been doing [not often or well but at times] is importing 
into an Aperture Library all those old pics [including scans from 
film images] and doing the metadata and organization within Aperture. 
In other words, using A. to get my pictures organized in one place. 
And if you keep the pics off on HardDrive A you don't have to move 
them off there = you can do a referenced group in Aperture.  Again = 
see Bagelturf blog for more info.

>Early in the talk you mentioned how important it is to calibrate the 
>monitor so the colors display correctly.  You mentioned it can take 
>20 minutes or so.  When I just used the Calibrate function in System 
>Prefs it didn't take any time at all -- are you doing something more 
>advanced?

I have a hardware Spyder2 which fits on the monitor and calibrates it 
== it might be overkill for most photographers but  is an essential 
for anyone who wants to print and sell their work.  I probably should 
upgrade to the monitor AND printer calibration systems, but not yet. 
The Mac OSX display calibration is probably fine for most people.
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