Annoture - Metadata Bridging Solution for Aperture and iView
Aperture and iView users:
I just released Annoture, a metadata bridging solution for Aperture and iView MediaPro! With Annoture, you’re just a click away from sharing metadata between these two popular image management and cataloguing applications. Spend more time working with your decisive moments than worrying about double-entry and incomplete metadata!
Annoture lets you transfer annotations from iView MediaPro catalogs to Aperture projects and albums and back. This two-way transfer of IPTC and metadata information means you are not tied to any one application for your image management and workflow needs. Annoture also features a modular interface that can be extended to support additional applications in the future.
http://www.tow.com/software/annoture/
Users of Aperture and iView can download a fully-functional version of Annoture. The unregistered version will occasionally display a reminder to register, and all images processed in Aperture by Annoture will have a custom “Annotated with Annoture!” tag added. You can remove these items with the full version after purchasing and entering your license code.
Enjoy!
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I totally realize that this is a personal preference with no "wrong" way to do it. However, I would appreciate some thoughts so I can form a better idea of how I will set up an Aperture workflow that will work for me for a long time and how to configure my new iMac.
I use the referenced library workflow and store both my masters and Aperture library on my current internal drive with both backed up to externals. I'm getting a new Mac with the SSD drive for apps and OS (and Aperture library as well). The question is, should I get the mega 2 TB internal HDD along with that SSD for all my masters (which would also include my music and home-made movies)?
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I've done the following:
Reset the printer system.
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As an event pro, I am always doing a collage 8x10 as a promo piece (mailer/giveaway) to point folks at the buying site. Even with all the PS templates, etc. There is NO COMPARISON, trust me. I just output a 20 image collage, with custom cropping, frames, shadowing and text in less than 10 minutes from a blank page in Fotofusion. My 2nd day playing with it... I can do it in less time now using the template it created. I can even tweak component images and simply re-render the piece to show the updates.
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I called Lumapix in Montreal, and found that the principals were formerly with SoftImage, a very high end modeling/compositing/animation system. That explained a lot, as SoftImage is an amazing app.
So what is the problem??? Fotofusion is a Windoze-only app. (Please don't stop reading, lol, fight the nausea) No one hates PC more than I, and I am still excited.
I have a Mac running Parallels (my financial app), and Fotofusion was just as fast on mine as it was on his Dell PC. My buddy actually bought dedicated PC to run this app. If you are a pro delivering wedding albums or collages on a regular basis...I have seen nothing that even comes close. This is the first time I have seen a photographers app on the PC that was really different & worthwhile.
I asked Lumapix if a Mac version was in the works, they said not at the moment as the software uses Windows system resources and would need to be re-written from the ground up for the Mac. I told them a dream of mine would be that they write this as an Aperture plug-in.
OR...if the Aperture team was to incorporate this Fotofusion level of speed and functionality to this task in the next version of Aperture, it would be awesome. I guarantee Apple would sell a lot more books...Fotofusion takes a fraction of the time that the Aperture book tool does to do a layout. I am hoping the Aperture team gets excited about this software design.
The demo of the software is fully functional except it prints watermarks on the output. It does work well in Parallels on my MBP, and is $299USD...but I would really want this functionality in Aperture...either native or a plug-in.
I figure if I made you folks aware of this, and you end up sharing my enthusiasm...maybe we can make some collective noise and see this or a design like it like it in or for Aperture. Before anyone asks...I have no commercial interest of any kind with this company...it just solved a huge workflow issue for me, I am excited, and I wanted to let others who need to do similar tasks know about it.
Sincerely,
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I really really really want to hear that there is a way to export the book, but not in a PDF... so it can go to a real lab.
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Right click the icon for Illustrator and select Properties /
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Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
It doesn't affect the other programs - only temporarily changes the screen for Illustrator only.
I can now open and place layered PSDs directly into Illustrator again.
(Original reference http://radongas.blogspot.com/2008/09/adobe-illustrator-cs3-windows-vista-64.html )Ryan Dinan, "Importing Photoshop files into Illustrator CS3" #27, 22 Oct 2007 7:00 pm
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