Inside Aperture with OâReilly
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OâReilly Mediaâs Inside Aperture site draws upon community expertise to provide you with tips and real-life experiences from professional shooters who use Appleâs premier photo management application to organize, edit, and output their images. Check out weblogs, articles, podcasts, and tutorials â all focused to help you improve your digital photography workflow.
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Mikko Koppanen has another image tutorial posted to his blog today - this time the focus is on padding a thumbnail with the color of your choice automatically.   Today's example originates from a question asked by a user. How do I thumbnail the image inside given dimensions proportionally and fill the "blank" areas with a color? Well, the answer is here.   His code pulls in the source image, generates a thumbnail from it and makes a new image (the background) that's a bit bigger than the thumbnail. From there, the thumbnail is laid on top and the whole thing is output as another PNG. An example of the input and output image is included.
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âiPhoto and Aperture work really well together,â reports Micah Walter in a recent Inside Aperture post. To take advantage of some of the âreally cool and fun toolsâ that iPhoto offers (e.g., including Aperture photos in a .Mac web gallery or a calendar), you can simply drag Aperture photos into iPhoto. But iPhoto offers an even better option, letting you âreferenceâ the photos in your Aperture library. By doing so, âif you make a change to an image in Aperture, you will see those changes in iPhoto.â Like to give it a try?
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At the Multimedia Immersion bootcamp hosted by the National Press Photographers Association, journalism students learned how to create sophisticated layered audio. How to shoot and edit video designed to appear on the web. How to select the perfect photo to illustrate a story. The multimedia tools of choice: Aperture, Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, and MacBook Pro computers.
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A new Nikon DX lens?...Flickr hopes to revamp its user interface...price pressure on Shutterfly...A Nikon gear splurge
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vApple today introduced Aperture 2, the next major release of its groundbreaking photo editing and management software. Featuring an improved interface, faster browsing, and enhanced image processing, Aperture 2 delivers more than 100 new features that make it faster, easier to use, and more powerful than ever. Thanks to its new low price of $199, anyone can easily organize, edit, and publish photos like a pro.  Owners of previous versions of the software can upgrade to Aperture 2 for just $99.
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Join the crowd: Step up from a digital point-and-shoot to a more powerful, more affordable digital SLR.
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One of the great things about digital photography is that you don't have to live with your mistakes. If you turned somebody's eyes red with your camera's flash, you can fix that goof with the right program. Better yet, that same software can organize your shots, share them online and even weave them together in slide shows.
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I don't have an office, and I'm not running a conference, so I hope to hook up with someone, hopefully in the Bay Area, with either of these, to try some experimentation with FlickrFan. First a little background... My first glimpse of how wonderful news photography and screen savers are together was when I visited Andy Rhinehart at the Spartanburg Herald-Journal on 2/15/05. He had to go to a meeting, and left me in his office to check email, update my blog using my laptop. HIs PC of course went into screen saver mode, and started showing pictures of various political leaders in meetings around the world and sporting events, people digging out of snow storms. It didn't take long before my eyes were fixed on his screen.  Later I found out that everyone at AP does this too.  If you have a folder of new pictures on your LAN it makes a fantastic source of distraction. But it's different from video because it's silent. You can have a conversation about what's on the screen without interfering with it, or try to have a conversation about something else entirely.  This is something we noticed about podcasting too, that sometimes less is more. Because there is no video you can: 1. Use your eyes for something else, like driving, walking, doing housework. 2. Use your imagination in ways you can't with video, imagine what the speakers look like, where they are, who else is there. Once your imagination is activated in one direction it goes off in others.  So photocasting or picturecatching, whatever it ends up being called, has a similar "less is more" dimension.  So then I tried an experiment, I put an early version of FlickrFan on a 46-inch screen in my den, and when people would come over to visit I'd leave it running and we'd talk about whatever we were going to talk about, and I wasn't surprised to see the attention drift over to the TV. It's captivating. So I'd like to try it in two new venues to see what happens. 1. In a reception area in an office. Imagine one of the buildings at Microsoft. Or a doctors office, or the lobby of a VC firm. Install a big flatscreen TV on the wall, with a Mac Mini behind it, with a net connection, and let it run. See if people don't gravitate to it. See if people don't want to have meetings in the lobby. (I think some might.) 2. At a conference, like Demo or Davos, scatter four screens around the main lobby (not the meeting room), with one Mac driving them all or each with its own Mac Mini. Again see how it affects the dynamic. You might want to show pictures taken at the conference for a unique recursive effect. Or just use the AP news photo feed. Either would be sufficient to learn how it works. I bet we would learn a lot. Let me know if you decide to give it a try, and by all means please blog about your experiences, share what you learn with the rest of us.
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A novel 3-D imaging technique provides a first look at the internal structure of human skin cells.
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Read and Write ICO,BMP formats in 100% pure Java   Been a long time in the making, but I've finally gotten round to the final release for 0.7  The library appears to be stable, hence my decision to finalize the current release.  Thanks to Olivier Le Tiec for reporting a bug with irregular icons (width != height), together with the necessary bug fix.  Thanks for using image4j!
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The Aperture Users Professional Network invites seasoned and new digital photographers to attend the Aperture Road Tour at one of 15 US cities this summer. During full-day sessions, tour attendees learn âhow to take control of their photographic world with Aperture â the photographic âpost processingâ tool from Apple â and how to efficiently use their images in photographic and multimedia ways they never previously imagined.â
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Okay, non-interview stuff first. I've recently picked up several 'shortcuts' from O'Reilly and Addison-Weseley.  I love this format.  For about 10 bucks, you can get a PDF only copy of a 50-100 page "book".  The shortcuts (so far at least) have been very focused, which allows them to cover a reasonable topic in sufficient depth without creating a monstrous 600+ page tome.  The shortcuts I've looked at so far have been timely, useful, and a great value.  October marks the beginning of Apress' push into Ruby and Ruby on Rails.    Apress also has Practical OCaml coming out soon to help soothe your inner functional programmer.  Now, on to interview news!
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Aperture customers can now install the Aperture 1.5.6 Update, either by running Software Update or by visiting the Aperture Download page. Recommended for all those using Aperture, the Aperture 1.5.6 Update addresses issues related to performance, improves overall stability, and supports compatibility with Mac OS X v10.5. The update should be installed before first use of Aperture with Mac OS X Leopard.
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Visit the Apple booth at PhotoPlus Expo in New York City to hear professional photographers Bill Frakes, Michael Grecco, Ron Haviv, Heinz Kluetmeier, Robert Leslie, Vincent Laforet, Casey Templeton and Steve Winter discuss their work and how they use Aperture.
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When Adobe followed the November 2005 release of Apple&#8217;s Aperture photo management app by putting out a beta of Lightroom, a workflow tool for professional photographers, the stage was set for a battle over the digital photography space between two tech industry giants.
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Aperture 1.5, available for free upgrades this week, adds some consumer-level features.