Pro Tips: A Professional RAW Workflow in Aperture 3 – Tutorial

Pro Tips from petethorne.com – Learn how to manage your RAW files, including backing up and archiving your data, and a simple workflow used for professional …
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18 Responses to Pro Tips: A Professional RAW Workflow in Aperture 3 – Tutorial

  1. Paulo Parreira says:

    Hi, i noticed that you upload your wedding photos online, in my country is
    usual to show printed proofs of the photos during the wedding party, its
    the way we sell them to guests, my problem is that my workflow is in LR but
    i’m not so pleased with it because is very slow, my question: do you know a
    way to export files with its filename printed on the image so that the
    contact sheet can be fully occupied by the images? Thanks

  2. xxicubusxx says:

    Thank you very much – I’ve been wondering how to organizing my photos for
    Aperture. Great workflow!

  3. CriticalFocusBlog says:

    Hi Pete. I really enjoy your tutorials. Great stuff. I added a refernece to
    my blog.

  4. Steven Rodgers says:

    This is great. Thank you.

  5. Andrew Barre says:

    Well done mate. Great video. Have you always used Aperture since it came
    out? and why do you use Aperture over Photoshop CS5 or other processing? Do
    you use noise ninja or anything else for noise or only Aperture? Cheers

  6. takeme2urmac says:

    Thanks for the video. I am new to Aperture and was a bit intimidated on how
    I would organize my library/projects. And back them up to an external.This
    is exactly what I needed. Do you ever use the Vault feature? What’s the
    advantage of that vs clicking and dragging your Aperture library to your
    Drobo? Thanks again for the informative video. 🙂

  7. Ade Tambunan says:

    how did you upload to zenfolio? did you export the file from aperture
    before? or directly upload from aperture?

  8. ProTips says:

    @MrSardylmi Hi, I’ve been an Aperture user since shooting my first wedding
    when I needed something beefy to handle all the images. Aperture is a time
    saver for organising projects and keeping to a professional workflow. I do
    use Photoshop for tasks like object removal or serious restoration. I never
    bother much with noise removal as even the best tools make the final image
    appear unnatural. My best advice is try to improve your equipment choices
    to avoid it where possible and love it where not!

  9. ProTips says:

    Um, all the files in my workflow are RAW images which is why you need a
    large data storage solution – JPGs could just be backed up online but RAWs
    would take ages to upload. This won’t be an issue for ever, broadband
    connection speeds will eventually get fast enough to through RAW data
    around without too many issues but until then you need to manage files
    locally.

  10. DV Movies Production says:

    Please put RAW out of the title. It has nothing to do with it.

  11. ProTips says:

    @MrSardylmi Hi, I’ve been an Aperture user since shooting my first wedding
    when I needed something beefy to handle all the images. Aperture is a time
    saver for organising projects and keeping to a professional workflow. I do
    use Photoshop for tasks like object removal or serious restoration. I never
    bother much with noise removal as even the best tools make the final image
    appear unnatural. My best advice is try to improve your equipment choices
    to avoid it where possible and love it where not!

  12. Adam Riga says:

    I wish my room were like this.

  13. schultzphotographic says:

    This is an excellent video! When you import images from your photo cards,
    do you work with them locally on your internal HD and use Time Machine for
    your immediate “working” backup? And Drobo is only used for long term
    archival storage? Thanks again!

  14. ProTips says:

    @killision Thanks, the external drive is a Time Machine backup drive set to
    hourly backups. This enables me to recover the whole system in event of
    catastrophic hard disc failure! I do have a second scratch disk but that’s
    only used for video projects.

  15. Kevin Krandel says:

    How do you make the smaller aperture libraries? I’m having difficulty
    figuring it out.

  16. ProTips says:

    @CriticalFocusBlog many thanks for that!

  17. ProTips says:

    @PauloParreira I’m not familiar with LR I’m afraid. In Aperture you can
    print contact sheets with filenames directly from the Print dialogue and
    select Meta Data: Name to display filenames under each thumbnail.

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