You can view these on line.
For reasons I don’t fully understand, Apple has made its two new Aperture tutorials available by email subscription only, and only to existing registered Aperture owners. These should be available through their web site to everyone, but read on and you can access them here.
The first is by Martin Gisborne – ‘Aperture Advanced’. Gisborne is the Aperture Product Marketing Manager. That means you can skip the first 1:20 to avoid the marketing BS and get right to the meat, which is laid out as follows:
1:20 – Importing and RAW processing
9:48 – Color meter
11:45 – Keywords
16:57 – Metadata management
21:50 – Color Management
The whole thing is 27:45 long and I recommend it. I found the last two sections especially useful.
The second is by Joe Schorr – ‘Streamline your workflow after the shoot’. Apple manages to mispell his name as Schore on the video (does anyone watch this stuff before publication?). Schorr is the Aperture Product Manager which, I suppose, makes him the key man for complaints. His active participation in Apple’s discussion board is commendable and if you think Apple is about to drop the product you really should give up crack. Anyway, that’s the sort of garbage you read on chat boards.
Schorr neatly articulates the upside of digital (thousands of pictures at no cost) versus the downside (the cost of time spent culling all the bad ones).
At 6:09 the video switches to Joseph Linaschke, the Aperture Technical Marketing Manager, whatever that means, and has a good exposition of the workflow process. Much of this is covered well on the DVD shipped with Aperture, but the video is worth watching if you are unfamiliar with the original. His presentation is a little too fast for newcomers and bears watching twice. The book publishing section is particularly useful. The video is 22:21 long.
Both presentations use a honking big Mac Pro and, yes, it’s very fast (and very expensive), but the iMac I use, while slower, is just fine for this amateur photographer. As long as you fit it with the maximum 2 megabytes of RAM, the iMac is just fine unless you are processing thousands of pictures.
Now Apple, how about using western European or American pictures next time? I am just about up to here with oriental content. There is a world outside China and Tibet, you know.