The thing about Aperture that got me hooked in the first place was its intuitive work-flow and logical layout. Something that was widely overlooked though ar the keyboard shortcuts that make working with Aperture a REAL treat. Consider this: you go on vacation and come back with a few gigabytes worth of photos that you need to sort through. If you are like me, a lot of them are snapshots that looked good on the camera’s LCD but when imported have camera shake or are just bad photos. Well if you have several hundred photos the task of organizing them and going through them is daunting. So, most likely you will do what I used to do… leave it for later…and later…and never. And then we just archive them.
Search Results Category: Post Processing Tutorials
April 13, 2010
The absolute beginner’s guide to Aperture 3 keyboard shortcuts (if you master these, the rest is details)
April 10, 2010
Aperture 3 Awesomeness: Brushing curves upon curves! (look mom no Photoshop!)
Ok my initial review of Aperture 3 might have been focused on the social networking features (useless and i stand by that notion) but MAN does Aperture 3 have an awesome feature. Something that Lightroom (3) will not have and does not currently have. Brushing on curves adjustments. and then smoothing the overlaps. If I say awesome here, I mean it could qualify as a killer feature.
March 31, 2010
Photoshop adjustments, putting clarity and detail into your photos
This is a very good approach to make photos look more detailed and bring out more detail in the darker areas instead of using High Dynamic Range (HDR) or overexposing the highlights.
This tutorial was done with Photoshop Elements 8 but should apply to any Editing package that can do Layers, Overlay and Adjustment Layers.
November 8, 2009
Contrast on steroids – the easy way
Post processing is a part of Photography just like taking the picture is. It’s like developing the film. You should try to get as much right in-camera the first time but you can adjust quite a bit in order to rescue a bad photo. In this article we try and get some punch into a photo without playing with Brightness and Contrast as they affect the image very differently.
