From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Imagenomic announced today the commercial release of Portraiture 2 for Aperture.

by admin on March 25, 2009

Imagenomic announced today the commercial release of Portraiture 2 for Aperture.

Portraiture 2 for Aperture is a newly-engineered version that fits seamlessly into Aperture digital image management, editing and output. Special features include:

· Automatic Skin Tones Mask generation and “One-click” skin retouching through a new Preset Manager, which includes image thumbnail previews, bracketing controls, custom preset creation and file sharing, notations, and visual history states;

· Advanced Skin Masking controls for selecting, feathering and refining the retouching area, edges and tonal ranges of the selected mask, including real-time previews;

· Enhancement sliders and settings for sharpness, softness, warmth, tint, brightness and contrast control, with the ability to apply these selectively to the mask area only or to the entire image, e.g. for adjusting lighting effects in software;

· Non-destructive editing and data integrity preservation for image repurposing and superior print quality;

· Extended output options, including dynamic retouching settings optimized for the intended size of the print output;

· New User Interface selection options, multiple image batch processing capabilities, and multi-threaded/multi-processor support for maximum retouching speed and performance.

Portraiture 2 for Aperture can be purchased directly from Apple (www.apple.com) or Imagenomic (www.imagenomic.com) for $199.95 (SRP). Free trial downloads are available for interested parties to “try before they buy.”

I’ll be writing a review of this plug-in sometime next week or so.

Thanks to some of our sponsors:
Lensbaby
Drobo

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Apple Releases Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.5

by admin on March 24, 2009

Apple released Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.5 today. It adds the ability to decode RAW files from the Epson R-D1x and Nikon D3X to Aperture 2.x and iPhoto ‘08/’09 for Mac. Other unspecified fixes are also part of the update.

Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.5 is available via the Software Updater.

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Frederick Van Johnson Added As ANPW Instructor!

by admin on March 23, 2009

This is GREAT news. We’re proud to announce that Frederick Van Johnson has been added as an instructor for our ANPW Yellowstone workshop coming this April. Fred is an outstanding photographer who used to work at Apple, and who worked on the original Aperture project. After he left Apple, Fred went to work at Adobe. Fred no longer works at Adobe and we’re lucky to find him available to help us teach at ANPW.

Fred is very well positioned to help us teach photography. But his unique insights as someone with experience using a multitude of different photo software makes him especially suited to teach Aperture.

Welcome Fred!

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New Bonus Prizes for ANPW Winners!

by admin on March 20, 2009


Thanks to the nice folks at Nik Software, our winners for the remaining two workshops will receive a free copy of Nik Software, Complete Collection for Aperture. This $299 bundle includes all the powerful tools you need to make Aperture a final destination for all your photos.

The package includes Dfine 2.0 (noise reduction) – Viveza (selective color & other controls) – Color Efex Pro 3.0 (52 very cool photo filters) – Silver Efex Pro (The best B&W photo tool ever!) – and Sharpener Pro 3.0 (Sharpening.)

Thanks Nik!

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Jennifer Wu Gallery from Yosemite ANPW

by admin on March 19, 2009

One of our pros who taught at the Aperture Nature Photography Workshops in Yosemite has just posted a gallery of workshop images from the trip. Enjoy. Great work Jennifer!

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ANPW Winners for Contest #3 These Folks are Going to Yellowstone!

by admin on March 18, 2009

Congrats to all the Yellowstone winners. Here they are (in no particular order.)

Olga Yiparaki, Ara Roselani, Bryan Holliday and Elyse Weadock.

Their winning pics appear below. They’ll join their four professional teachers on April 29 in Montana for a fun, educational trip to photograph some of the best scenery in America. And it gets better! Our wonderful sponsors are shipping them their prizes as we speak.


Photo by Bryan Holliday



Photo by Olga Yiparaki



Photo by Ara Roselani



Photo by Elyse Weadock

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Apple Issues Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.5

by admin on March 3, 2009

This update extends RAW file compatibility for Aperture 2, iPhoto ’08, and iPhoto ’09 for the following cameras:

Nikon D3X
Epson R-D1x

It also addresses issues related to specific cameras and overall stability.

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