Aperture tutorial

I have the Aperture trial and want to see the tutorials that come with the trial, but I am in India on a long holiday and my connection is not very fast. I was wondering if anyone knew where I could download them rather than watch them streaming online?
These are the ones I am seeking:
http://www.apple.com/aperture/quicktours/
http://www.apple.com/aperture/resources/tutorial/
Michael Spencer

wait until the movies loaded completedly, then you have the possibility to save (click on the small triangle on the right of the time-line of the movie and choose "save as quicktime"
good luck,
msg

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Have 23 days left on my trial...
So far I am not impressed...
It is very slow...I have very good Memory and storage..
Why is it that iPhoto, seems sooo much easier and faster...
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RAW file), and whenever you export one of these
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Whats the advantage of using Lightroom vs just Photoshop itself?

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Hans V

Read the
b Lightroom
and
b Aperture
forums to help understand what this new
i killer app
category can do for digital photographers. Another good source of understanding is the Aperture tutorial videos at Apple's website. By perusing the videos you can get an idea of what these new
i killer apps
can do.
They are not direct competitors to PS, nor are they simply complementary apps to PS,
b they are in a different application space entirely.
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Many PSCS users do use the Adobe Bridge/PSCS/Camera RAW app combo to address the Aperture/Lightroom space, but Bridge/PSCS/CR is a far inferior solution from a workflow speed standpoint for DSLR photogs. Generally folks doing so are PSCS-experienced pros either doing very low volume (the real benefit of Aperture/Lightroom shows up as volume increases, with Aperture IMO superior) or simply reluctant to change. Note that although many pro DSLR photogs often do shoot in batches of 500+, by "as volume increases" I mean batch DSLR captures in a 50+ volume, not
i "processing a very, very large number of files"
or
i "thousands of files. ."
See below regarding v2 which you probably should wait for, but I strongly recommend that every DSLR photog with adequate computer hardware first spend $33 and work through the tutorial CD
b Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 1.5
(Apple Pro Training) by Orlando Luna and Ben Long (Paperback - Oct 18, 2006). Have the CD and proper hardware configured prior to ordering the Aperture trial so you don't waste time of the 30 day trial. Note that the value is in the tutorial, not in using the book as a manual.
Aperture version is now at v2.1, and a new version of the Luna/Long tutorial is available for preorder:
b Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 2
(Apple Pro Training Series) by Ben Long, Richard Harrington, and Orlando Luna (Paperback - May 8, 2008). I have not reviewed the v2 tutorial but I have preordered it from Amazon.com.
IMO a cursory examination of Aperture/Lightroom usually turns out to be mostly a waste of time, or leads to bad workflow habits or folks simply do not get it. Carefully working the tutorial IMO is by far the best way to learn this new killer app category. Even if you settle on LR for reasons of lesser hardware working the tutorial CD is the way to learn the concepts of this new killer-app category.
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Chaz9,
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Bridge CS3 Previews/Slideshow Scaling Too Slow on Powerbook G4 15"

I've been using Photoshop CS3 itself for months and it's plenty fast. Bridge, on the other hand, is unusable for me right now because when I click an 6-megapixel jpeg image, a fuzzy/blotchy preview showed immediately, but it takes a full seven seconds for a high-quality preview to show. The exact same thing occurs in the slideshow mode. Of course, once the high-quality preview has been cached, it shows up instantly, but this is a real issue for newly-viewed files.
Is this a known issue? If so, is there a way to make the high-quality preview reasonably fast, so that there's only a delay of a second or two max?
Graphic Converter is quite snappy for previews and full-screen slideshows on this ~1.6 Ghz G4, but I would prefer to use Bridge for its advanced organizing features and integration with Photoshop.
Thank you for your help,
Cameron

>It makes no difference whether your files originated as 10- or 12-megapixel digital camera files or as 120 MB 16-bit Tiff scans, 4,000 images are still 4,000 images!
 
 Actually, no. How files originate makes
 b all
 the difference!
 
 E.g. a film scan is by definition very slow, so processing, sorting, culling, stacking all occur prior to a few hero images being selected for scanning. Those activities occur manually rather than in software.
 
 Similarly - again with no disrespect intended - your 4000 images captured over weeks on a slow digicam with a film-centric mindset are
 b nothing
 like capturing hundreds or thousands of shots, many of
 i dynamic subjects,
 during intense DSLR RAW shooting of a day or two.
 
 E.g. the other day I was alone (meaning no helper to control the feisty new pup) walking my new lab puppy during failing light and decided to shoot a pic for emailing to friends. I would run away from the puppy, turn around and shoot continuous high speed autofocus pix of Ruby as she ran toward me. Even though Ruby can run almost as fast as I can, in 5 minutes of failing light I had shot 50-100 12 MP RAW images that then needed to be keyworded, stacked, stacks reviewed for ranking and culls, and an email generated.
 
 
<a href="http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1ybNMDLvrZ84DrWBMZ0a5QE8fKUkY" /></a>
<img alt="Picture hosted by Pixentral" src="http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1ybNMDLvrZ84DrWBMZ0a5QE8fKUkY_thumb.jpg" border="0" />
 Nikon D2x, f/4, 85mm.
 
 The whole process was easy and fast. With a low end point-and-shoot in failing light I would not have had 50 properly exposed, properly focused naturally lit pix that needed close comparative evaluation. At best one would end up with one or two focused keepers; no fancy software necessary to cull a dozen out-of-focus pix.
 
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For the past couple of weeks I am trying to give Aperture a chance to replace iPhoto... I have a quite large collection of pictures, and iPhoto is simply getting too slow to cope with it (yes, yes, i did library rebuild etc..).
I love editing features of Aperture 3, but have quite serious usability issues with it. First of all it really doesn't look or feel like Apple application. But anyway...
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DanInDub wrote:
... Or am I missing something?
Yes. At the risk of a mildly "wise" answer, you need a quick hour with the manual (its online) or the Apple Aperture Tutorial.
Aperture can organize your images sixteen ways to Sunday, and will even let you arrange some one way and the rest another. And date order is always there as one of the factory smart albums.
Read the book and you will be very happy!
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