Wedding Photographers using Aperture to design wedding album

I have been using Aperture to design my leather wedding albums. This way I can email the bride a PDF layout for her approval before sending the book to "Graphistudio" to print.
If you are a wedding photographer and need to get the brides final approval on an album this can save you money on mistakes. I make them responsible for checking spelling and dates, pictures etc.
1: Make custom layout to Graphistudio's dimensions.
2: Layout book as normal
3: Print to PDF file - Then use "PDF Shrink" to get the file to about 2 - 3 megabytes in size so you can email. Send to bride to look over and approve.
4: When approved I print the book to JPG images and use Graphistudio's own software to layout the pages and upload.
It would be great to have a separate plug-in for designing wedding albums in Aperture for different companies.

billash3 wrote:
Aperture 1.5.
Ah. Using highlight & shadow adjustments can slow down Aperture 1.5's exporting five-fold.
Let me make sure I understand: if I'm only shooting JPGs, there's no RAW conversion, which means the time that's being consumed is due to the various adjustments Aperture's having to do?
Plus resizing if the output size is different form the original, and converting to another colour profile if the input and output profiles are different, and compressing the new JPEG. Apart from resizing, all those tasks should take hardly any time at all.
Also, would a third party DVD burning program for Mac improve the situation?
It's not going to make any difference at all.
Ian

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I wonder how pro photographers use aperture?I shoot raw and my harddrive is alreay full.I'm not able to import new pictures.Is it ok if i create a vault and delete all my projects in the HD.Can I use an external HD use aperture through the vault??

I wonder how pro photographers use aperture?I shoot raw and my harddrive is alreay full.I'm not able to import new pictures. I don't know what to do. I created a vault. My plan was to create a vault(put all my master files into an external harddrive) and then delete all my projects in my mac pro's harddrive. Is it the correct way to do it ? What should I do if I have thousands of raw files ? How should my workflow be? Can I use an external HD and use aperture through the vault,without keeping the master files on my computer's hard drive?? Or should I shoot raw+jpeg and store raw files in an external backup harddrive and import only jpegs into my aperture library?

There's a bit to learn. It will slowly make sense.
Aperture is an empty field. You're given a tractor and a whole bunch of attachments. What you grow, how, and where, is entirely up to you.
Vaults are for back-up and only for back-up. They have nothing to do with storing your working files.
When your Library outgrows your system drive (and for good performance, you should leave c. 20% of every drive empty), it's time to convert some of your image's Masters from Managed to Referenced. ("Managed" and "Referenced" refer to Masters, not to Libraries.)
There are hundreds of posts in the forum, and several pages in the User Manual on using Masters.
Many people run Aperture with the Library on their system disk, and most (or all) of their images' Masters on external FW drives. This is a good set-up. Note that you will likely have to take steps to back-up the data on your external drives.
If you do the above, there should be no reason to delete any Projects.
The choice of RAW or RAW+JPEG or JPEG depends on the kind of work you are doing. I capture RAW only -- but I don't do any commercial shoots. Pros on deadlines report that the RAW+JPEG works well for them. Capture JPEG if it saves you time. IMHO, there is not a good reason to shoot JPEG to save space (space is cheap; time expensive).
Short-term solution: buy and use a FW800 external 1 TB drive, formatted "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)", and using Aperture relocate the Masters of all images older than 30 days to that drive. (Be sure to change your back-up strategy to include this new drive; you may need a second new drive.)
This general post of mine might help you understand more about Aperture.

Printing wedding invitations using PDFs purchased from Etsy.

I am trying to print wedding invitations using PDFs purchased from Etsy. What program should I be using, and how can I get four of the the RSVP cards to print on one sheet of paper? Thanks!Pr

Thanks for your prompt reply. I know this sounds dense, but I can't figure out how to get the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th copies to populate....I can get the one to print the correct size on 1/4th of the sheet if that makes any sense.

Use Aperture Book Create, however print elsewhere

Hi,
I love the aperture book design and am wanting to use this for my business however dont want to have to print with apple.
1) Can the design book template ive created be used elsewhere? (wedding album printers)?
2) If so, if they arent using aperture and say a [PC] are they able to print my book/album design?
Appreciate the help

cinta281008 wrote:
Hi,
I love the aperture book design and am wanting to use this for my business however dont want to have to print with apple.
1) Can the design book template ive created be used elsewhere? (wedding album printers)?
2) If so, if they arent using aperture and say a [PC] are they able to print my book/album design?
yes.
use the "Print" book feature and at the Print window that pops up select "PDF" any printer should be able to print it.
victor

Contact Sheets / Proofing and useful Aperture RAW Conversion

All,
I wanted to appeal to all of you pro photographers out there to share about how you handle the proofing stage (contact sheets) with your clients. I'm curious about how you all make this process as efficient as possible.
Ok, say you have taken 1000 pictures for a wedding or some other event (forget the accuracy of that number, its just a round number for discussion sake). You need to present your photos to your client, but you need to present a subset of the 1000 photos for a few reasons:
1) Not all photos you are going to take are going to be great. I've heard a general quote by some pro photographers that their "keeper ratios" (the percentage of pics that are really good from a shoot) run around 10%-20%. Fair enough, I don't want to debate this percentage, but it gives us a target number of 100 photos to present to a client from a 1000 picture shoot.
2) Your client is probably not going to be happy if they have to sift through 1000 photos. I recently had a friend who paid several thousand dollars for a wedding photographer who sent them 1000 photos to choose from. They weren't particularly happy with this, and told the guy there was just too many to choose from. Personally, I felt that this was putting part of the photographer's responsibility on the client, but whatever.
Ok...so for the sake of the example here, we have to get 1000 photos down to 100 photos, so the client can choose what 50 (for example) they want to purchase and have printed, put in their photo book, slide presentation, etc.
Sorry for the long intro, but here is the issue at hand: we want to work quickly for the client, and get them their 100 photos as soon as possible. We also want to put our best foot forward, and give them high-quality photos. But at the same time, we want to work efficiently, and if possible not spend time doing final retouching on photos that the customer doesn't want, but rather focus this time directly on the photos the customer does want.
I have two questions from this which pertain to Aperture's RAW conversion and workflow:
1) Do you do any significant adjustments on photos for the contact sheets you present to clients (the 100 photos now)? Is it just a quick exposure adjustment, or are you retouching all 100?
2) Despite Aperture's RAW conversion problems and other adjustment glitches, is it sufficient quality in your opinion for a contact sheet?
My purpose in asking these questions is that perhaps the Aperture RAW conversion issue can be mitigated if we can get to the point of customer contact and review using Aperture-only conversion and adjustment tools, and then isolate photoshop use for only the final, significant edits. The problems with Aperture's RAW conversion are well-documented, but the question is, could it still be sufficient for small-scale proofs, understanding that for large-scale, high-res images, it won't be suffcient.
Your opinons are valued!
Brad
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">-DELETE project from Aperture because I can't use the app for the delivery
of finals:
Forgive me if I've forgotten the detail you may have posted elsewhere about this. I have seen you mention this several times, but I am really interested in the specifics behind the problems you have encountered. I have some needs in finishing that are beyond just regurgitating a photo. I'll be basically augmenting my photo with text, borders, special effects, etc. for more professional presentation, and the ability to market a photo in different ways. This is one reason I cannot discard Photoshop from my workflow. Anyway, let's assume for a moment I'm able to do all my editing in Photoshop, and those PSD files are sitting within Aperture. From there, what problems am I going to encounter? I'm tapping your brain here, as the time I have spent in Aperture has been primarily oriented toward everything prior to the finishing stage. "
Hi Brad,
If I've imported images into Aperture that have previously been worked over in Photoshop, none of the layers I may have created in those files will be available to me from within Aperture. This does not break but severely sprains the functionality of Photoshop. I'm keeping the images around because I think I or my clients will need them later, so what might I do with them?:
1) If I'd like to do more work on them I either have to abandon access to the previously created layers and their magic, or export the file from Aperture, work on it outside, import it back into Aperture. Every time I want to work with those layers I have to do the same dance.
2) If I'd like to send jpg or tif versions of those files anywhere I can choose to use the tools within Aperture or Photoshop to do so. Aperture's tools for these conversions are simply not of professional utility: no compressed tifs, no layered tif support, no quality choices for jpgs and no jpg previews. And in either case, using Aperture or Photoshop, the conversions are created OUTSIDE of Aperture and not managed by it.
3) When I decide to archive my older projects I'm faced with the incredible limitation that Aperture will not allow me any remote search of any archive that is not "live" within Aperture. Not even Spotlight will search Aperture libraries!!!!!
So moving already created projects into Aperture has absolutely no advantages and a number of problems, any one of which might be a deal-killer by itself.
If I'd like to use Aperture to manage work that I create going forward I've got those limitations already listed above, but I CAN access layers in PSD that are created from within Aperture. I cannot make layered duplicates of those files in order to work on versions of those images so once again the Photoshop workflow is hobbled.
All of this makes it a bad idea for my projects to make anything but a brief trip in and out of Aperture for sorting/proofing.
Regards,
fp

I am using Aperture to make a photo book. I have about 400 photos in the project. I am able to select the photos I want for 20 pages, then when I try to add a page, all the pictures are selected. How do I add additional pages and still control the pix

I am using Aperture to make a photo book. I have about 400 photos in the project that I am selecting from. I want to use about 70 for the book. I am allowed to pick and choose photos until I fill 20 pages. Then when I select add page, I am allowed to select all the pictures in the project. I am not allowed to select. I think I hve to change a setting, bt what? Thanks for the help.

. I am not allowed to select. I think I hve to change a setting, bt what?
David, have you enabled the "Autoflow" options? There are settings behind the cogwheel, that will automatically place unused images onto new pages. If you only want to select a few images from a large project, disable these two options:
Or start your book froman album, that only contains a selection of your images, rather than from the whole project.
Reagrds
Léonie

Using Aperture to post to Web Gallery

I was posting to an answered thread so am reposting, having just tried yet again. I have conncection to the net, aperture correctly 'sees' my .Mac site, I select the images to be uploaded to the WebGallery, I have both used the icon drop down and gone into New in the File menu to make the web gallery, the web gallery button or icon spins a bit but then drops off and Aperture reopens into another project all together, not even reopening into the one I was trying to create a gallery from = I cannot create a web gallery using Aperture 2 from either my MacPro or my laptop.

I imported JPEG images manualy, made with a Lumix FZ-10. The import created a project, which contained all the images. I went through them and applied 'Repair' and 'Blackpoint' adaptations. Then I selected the images (as described in the .mac-Hint from last week, or so), and selected 'Neu->Web Galerie..'. That was indeed wrong, because my selected images were not added to the galery, because I choose the wrong menu; better would have been 'New from selction->Web Galerie'. Now the gallery was published to .mac, and was empty. But .. I selected the images again and drag-droped them into the Webgallery. They showed up, so I selected 'Album übertragen...' (transfere album) from the context menu of the Webgalery in the main project list of Aperture. This brings up a dialog attached to the window, asking if I want to use the new RAW-processor. The choices in that dialog do not allow to skip this step, with any choice I made, the answer is that no RAW-images were found, and that the transfere is finished.
I just did a test if 'New from selected images->Web Galery..' does anything different, and it indeed does: the images are added to the galery, and published immediately. For now, I can live with the described missbehaviour, but any update to the Web galery may bring up the problem again, I assume.
(hope you can cope with my translations, thanks!)

How to use Aperture 3 Photo to make a card in iPhoto?

I have been using Aperture 3 exclusively for a couple of years and now I would like to create some cards in the iPhoto Letterpress process using some of these photos. Some would be blank to write a message to family & friends, some Holiday designed cards etc
When I went to make a birthday card (as a test) to send to a cousin, I wasn't able to create it using the Aperture 3 image I wanted . Do I have to import them into iPhoto?
Thanks / Gene

Two ways:
If you generate previews in Ap 3 then you can share them with the iLife and iWork apps. (AP 3 preferences). Then, in iPhoto go File -> Show Aperture Library. You'll get a Media Browser window. You can then drag an image from there to the iPhoto Window. This yields your Ap 3 Preview.
or
Export from Aperture (File -> Export) to the Finder and then import to iPhoto.
Regards
TD

Using Aperture 2 to Edit Iphoto 08 Library

I imported my Iphoto 08 library into Aperture 2 as reference images so I can still view my iphoto library on my HD Samsung through my PS3 using Medialink, after I edit the images with Aperture. My question is will there be any problems if I edit / delete / change images in my iphoto using Aperture ? Are there any tricks or things to be careful about ? I don't want to corrupt my library. I am a recent convert to mac (SR Macbook) and iphoto 08 did a great job with importing and initial organizing the mess of photo from all my windows machines. Aperture 2 seems to have better editing and file management of my resultant 25000 + library. I'd like to use both iphoto and Aperture together.

I import into Iphoto first for a couple of reasons. If I have some videos on my camera, which i usually do, Iphoto will capture them for viewing or editing later. Aperture won't. Second, Time Machine works with Iphoto, not with Aperture. So backups are automatic with Iphoto. With Aperture, you can backup with vaults. I import all my images into Aperture (as referenced images) mostly so I can manage them, IE, organize using metadata, and place into folders by year / month, etc. Also, when you do edit in Aperture, no extra copies are made, like in Iphoto, because, Aperture takes the master from the iphoto library and applies your edits on the fly. You can continually edit and change the image in Aperture and it only will render and make a new image / master when you want to export.
As far as keeping track of various version of images, after organizing and editing in Aperture, you can place a rating on images, or place them in an album of good stuff (which is just a link to the real image), to then export into a new iphoto event of good stuff, etc
Alternately, you could import the images into Aperture as masters, and Aperture will make another copy, which means you'll have two of each image taking up twice as much space. Depending how many images and how much hard drive space you have will determine if this works. You could keep either or both Aperture and / or Iphoto libraries on external hard drives. You could import directly into Aperture and only export good stuff into iphoto, if you don't have any videos to manage and you're willing to backup with Aperture vault.
I setup the external editor in Aperture to use CS3 PS. When you select edit in external editor, Aperture renders a new master which you edit in PS and end up with a new master in Aperture.
Good luck. I went through several workflows with Aperture trial and almost gave up. In the end though, after I saw what Aperture can do, Iphoto along wasn't good enough and I came up with something that works for me.

Missing Camera and Exposure information by using Aperture 2

I am using Aperture 2 and .mac web gallery. However, I note that the Camera and exposure information are missing for photos if I use the Aperture 2 for uploading my photos. However, the Image and File information are okay.
By using the iPhoto, the Image, File, Camera and Exposure information can be shown in my .mac web gallery. Which setting should I use in Aperture 2 to allow me to upload the photo information in my .mac Web gallery? Thanks.

In the Web Album settings you will need to change the settings to upload "Optimized Image" in order to get metadata included in the images you upload to .mac.
You current settings only upload small JPEG versions of your images.
Please, note that the upload time will increase significantly when you change to "Optimized Images" since they are much larger.
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Reason to use Aperture or iPhoto library?

A few months ago I purchase Aperture, on install I selected the option to let is use my iPhoto library. While "learning" to use Aperture, I didn't want to totally abandon iPhoto in case I wasn't pleased with it. Now I will be using Aperture solely, still doesn't do all I want, but better/close than iPhoto.
So, my question is, is there a reason to transfer all of the iPhoto images to a new Aperture library, or is there no real difference between the two types of libraries? I have already created an Aperture library for some commerical work that I am doing, whereas the iPhoto is primarily a personal/family album.
P.S., is the Aperture library accessible / sharable with my iPad? I take the iPad with me to show customers the photos I

Yes, I haven't tried syncing the two. I have imported into aperture, but haven't tried going the other way, or a two-way sync.
Syncing? Neither Aperture nor iPhoto supports syncing of photo libraries so far. Aperture can merge iPhoto libraries and Aperture libraries, but it cannot keep two libraries in sync with each other.
There would be one minor advantage, if you import your iPhoto library into a new Aperture library. Aperture is a bit more economical with additional files, like faces and previews. iPhoto will always scan imported image files for faces, and iPhoto will always create high quality previews. In Aperture you can disable faces and previews, or set the size of previews to a smaller file size. So, an Aperture library might be smaller than a corresponding iPhoto library, when you create it new.
And I am not yet quite sure, what will happen, if new Aperture versions and iPhoto versions will be released, that require a paid upgrade. To use an iPhoto library with Aperture, right now it has to be upgraded in iPhoto to an iPhoto version compatible with Aperture. You cannot open iPhoto '9 libraries directly in Aperture, you need iPhoto '11. If it stays this way, you might be required to buy a paid upgrade to iPhoto to upgrade your combined iPhoto-Aperture library to be used with a new Aperture 4, even if you are no longer using iPhoto. In this case, it would be safer to convert the iPhoto library to an Aperture library by importing the iPhoto library into a new, empty Aperture library.

Sports Photographers and Aperture

I was wondering if there are any sports photographers out there that use strictly use Aperture for their post processing. I am considering a Photo Mechanic/ Photoshop workflow perhaps in addition to Aperture. Anyone have any thoughts or pros and cons in reference to modifying my process?
Thanks in advance!

I shoot predominantly sports and use a PhotoMechanic/Aperture workflow from location on a macbook pro or at home with a Mac Pro. A typical workflow:
1. Ingest with PM (I tend to shoot JPG unless big time event or uncertain light)
2. Select pics to file with tagging and create new temp directory for just the keepers
3. Caption and rename the keepers
4. Upload the temp keeper directory into Aperture and make minor adjustments as necessary (typically horizon line and cropping)
5. Save the files into a temp upload directory at a compression setting to get size down to 2MB or less (usually PS 8)
6. FTP the upload directory to the wire service site
Given that I do very limited editing, I find Aperture the most efficient tool. It also then creates an auto-archive of the keepers. At a later time, I may review the rest of the ingest pics for anything I may want to keep for stock. If editing on a Macbook Pro, I'll export the project to a portable hard drive and later upload it to my master Aperture Library on the Mac Pro at home (which, in turn, has on online vault and off-line vault) and burn the project backups periodically to DVD. No chance for lost images with several redundancies.
I'd be curious to hear other experiences / workflow tweaks.
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Using Aperture 3 Vault storage

Started to use Aperture 3 before accessing the Vault storage function. Bought an external hard drive to store my Aperture 3 photos. How do I now use the function of the vault storage within Aperture 3, and after getting the photos transferred to the external hard drive what is the process for future imported photos. Thanks for any help.

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but RTFM! (Read the friendly manual!)
Vaults are a back up device. They may, or may not be a good idea for you. Aperture is full of words, like "project," "album," "referenced" which have a very specific meaning in the context of Aperture and may not mean what you think they mean.
For example, the number of people who go into a tailspin because they don't understand that "project" could have been called a "roll" or an "event" just as easily.
These are arbitrary, not absolute, terms.
So no, a vault will not do what you want. You are probably discussing setting up a "referenced" "library." Our own Sierra Dragon can help you do this.
If you use a "referenced" library, then you will probably be happier with Time Machine or cloning software for backup. A vault is likely to be a poor choice for backup for a referenced library.
All the best!

Using Aperture and iPhoto

I have been using Aperture, and love it. I just got the new iLife 08 and like some features in iPhoto that I cannot use in Aperture, such as the new web gallery and the new iPhoto books. Is there a way I can easily use both without managing 2 databases?

I have just done the same thing, and don't those Web Galleries look great?!
You do have to manage two databases (Aperture and iPhoto) but you do not have to make additional copies of your photos (as I am sure you are keen to preserve HD space on your MBP).
In iPhoto preferences you can elect to not add your imported pictures to the iPhoto library.
So one way to do it is import your Aperture Previews via the File menu in iPhoto. This way iPhoto has access to the Photos but you haven;t made yet another copy. This does necessitate having a whole heap of previews that you may or may not publish on your web gallery, but you can also access them smoothly and easily from within iLife and iWork.
Another and even better way for preserving disk space would be to not have Previews on in the first place in Aperture (thereby saving room).
Make an individual album or a smart folder in aperture and then export those particular images as JPEGs at whatever quality you choose.
These images would almost certainly need to be incorporated into the iPhoto library. But at least you have only doubled up on a few select pics and not your whole aperture library.

Aperture 3.3 Upgrade, still not actually managed to use Aperture for anything!

I eagerly downloaded 3.3 as soon as it was available - the idea of a shared library/format between iPhoto and Aperture is great - sharing Faces/Places etc.
But I haven't been able to do anything with it yet! After the initial library conversion, once I'd gone into Aperture it started generating previews for my entire collection - about 50,000 images - not sure why this was necessary - since the previews were there before the upgrade.
I've had the activity window more or less permanently open since I did the upgrade last week, and there are still over 8,000 previews to go - hopefully by the weekend it will have finished and I'll actually be able to try out some of the new features.
While doing this preview generation, Aperture hangs periodically (and never seems to recover requiring a force quit and restart) when it tries simultaenously to sync the Facebook albums.
I mention all this because unlike with the previous version, when if there was some activity to carry out, if you started to use Aperture, the activities would pause - this doesn't seem to happen now - or at least the application is so busy with the background activity, that it doesn't seem possible to kick off an action that might make it suspend background activity.
Doesn't look like a stable release to me so far - although maybe after this questionable preview re-generation I'll find a different story - has anyone else encountered this behaviour?

Same here. I was able to open the Activity window and pause the generation of Previews. I did this in order to access some of the Images in the Library. I don't advise doing any work with it, though, until it is completely stable. On restart, it will again commence generating Previews (and in my case, thumbnails).
I don't know what the problem is, or why it happened, or whether once it finishes generating Previews it will be stable.
Extrapolating, it seems it will take about four days of solid processing to generate all the Previews. Ouch.
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