[DM-MUG] Notes on Aperture

[John Kisner]

On Jan 24, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Ray Bowler wrote:

> Thanks for  your presentation last might.  I learned a lot about  
> what Aperture is and is  not.

I had to leave the meeting early to take one of my kids to dance  
class, which was too bad because I was still trying to get a feel for  
what Aperture was used for.  It startled me to hear that Photoshop  
Elements is better at actually editing photos, etc.  Am I correct in  
my impression that it is valuable mostly as a better way to manage  
large photo libraries?

I enjoyed the perspective of using some of the available tools for  
metadata to make it easier to sort and find pictures.  My own photo  
library (in iPhoto) is incoherent aside from the basic date of  
import.  I don't have the energy to go back through six years of  
digital photos, but really should start organizing the new stuff better.

Early in the talk you mentioned how important it is to calibrate the  
monitor so the colors display correctly.  You mentioned it can take  
20 minutes or so.  When I just used the Calibrate function in System  
Prefs it didn't take any time at all -- are you doing something more  
advanced?
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