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We've just completed Volume 3 of Aperture 3 Tips, Tricks and Tutorials. This third volume in the series contains another 100 killer techniques for getting the most out of Aperture. This PDF eBook is available free to MacCreate Premium members. Each of these books has a retail price of $9.99 on the Mac Create store at shop.maccreate.com, and all three are available to Premium members for free. read more
Here’s another reason to become a Mac Create Premium member. The new Apple TV is only $91 on our store. That’s $9 in savings right there and while it’s not a huge discount, it’s just about 1/4th of the way to your cost of Premium memberships, and then you get so many other goodies as ... read more
Stacking is a great way of organizing images, but I also like to use the Stack tool to just help me quickly get an idea of what my shooting flow was like. By changing the Auto Stacking slider Aperture will group images together differently based on the shutter release times between them. I like to ... read more
The main Faces browser provides a simple way to look at all of your contacts in Aperture, but by mousing over the individual thumbnails you can find out more about the Faces that Aperture has found. Main Faces The main Faces interface displays each person Aperture has found in a single Browser. Mouse over Move the cursor over the ... read more
Aperture’s Book making tools are a lot more sophisticated than most people realize. They provide for all sorts of manipulation of pages just like a good Page Layout program. Here are some of the most important things you can do to a page. The first step is to switch into Edit Layout mode by clicking the ... read more
With multiple images selected in Aperture it’s possible to do a number of metadata adjustments to all selected images at once. Here, for example, I selected four images and pressed the 4 key on the keyboard to give them all a 4-Star rating. I could also drag Keywords onto all four images and they’d all get ... read more
I like to refer to the creative organization tools in Aperture (Books, Light Tables, Slideshows, etc.) as “specialty albums” because they’re all essentially albums but they’re imbued with special powers. Slideshow is an Album with tools to create a slideshow, for example. The complete list of specialty albums is Books, LIght Table, Slideshow, Web Journal, Web ... read more
Our new 30-minute training video on Apple’s application Color, part of the Final Cut Studio suite comes with a free bonus resource for Mac Create Premium members, a folder with the source files used in the tutorial. The tutorial itself is available on the Mac Create resource store, here. Premium members can download that resource file here. read more
Every so often we change the coupon code used to get the 20% discount on the Mac Create store at shop.maccreate.com. We've just updated the coupon code, so if you're looking to purchase any of our great tutorials or resources, please use the code read more
We've just uploaded our Aperture 3 Tips, Tricks and Tutorials Voume 2 ebook to the Apple iBook and Amazon Kindle stores. But this $9.99 book, with more than 100 great suggestions and strategies for the Aperture user is free for Premium members. read more
Our newest Aperture Workflow video is available to Premium members for FREE! That’s right, this hour and half long video is free to premium members. Just follow the link below to download the video. Micah Walter has been a contributor to MacCreate and the Aperture Users Network since their inception. In this video, Micah shows you ... read more
For the past two years I have spent the better part of each of my days hunched over a MacBook Pro or glued to my seat in front a Mac Pro working with Final Cut Studio. This amazing suite of applications has become my “bread and butter.” Working primarily in a tapeless workflow with the ... read more
Mac Create Premium members are invited to a special member-only online Webinar answering all of your Aperture 3 questions. Join us at 12:00PM EDT on May 6, 2010. read more
This is going to be the season of giveaways from Mac Create. Our last giveaway was three copies of Aperture 3, and now we’re giving away an iPad. This contest runs until Friday May 7th. We’re giving away a brand-new iPad 16GB model. And all you have to do to enter to win is to ... read more
We’ve been working to get each of the chapters of our Complete Guide to Aperture 3 available as a separate download/purchase on our Mac Create Store. One of the nice side effects of that is that we can make some of them available as a perk for the Premium members. If you’re interested in more of ... read more
During our shoot for the upcoming video Aperture Master with Jim Richardson, the long-time National Geographic shooter took a few minutes to talk about why photographic tools like Aperture are so crucial, and why cataloging one’s photographs makes sense. Often Richardson hears newcomers to photography (and veterans alike) saying that they’re just not convinced they ... read more
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