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This is a really good video showing how to set up Photoshop for a colour managed workflow.
https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a227210/p84783897/
It includes info on monitor profiling, printer profiling and how to fit these in to Photoshop properly.
It's a recording of an Adobe web seminar.
well my copy of the Aperture 2 Pro Training book
Both books come with a disk of lesson material. In the final cut express book the disk contains a folder full of footage for each lesson including pre-made sequences, clips and audio files. The footage is all really nice quality and illustrates the lessons perfectly. Hopfully the material in the Aperture book will be just as good.
Apple has a certification scheme for it's pro applications and these books comprise the study material for the first level of there respective courses. At some point I need to find out how easy it is to take one of Apple's exams.
More info on the Aperture book soon, once I've finished with final cut.
OK, that's a slight exaggeration, but not much.
I spent a nice day at Apple Yesterday learning the ins and outs of Aperture. We were all (6 of us!) sitting using Macbook Pros, whizzing along, capturing images, editing them and designing books. Having played with Aperture before I was now re-enthused to have another go. So I get home, open the old Powerbook G4 (17", 1.67GHz) plug in the drive with my Aperture library and fire it all up.
The first thing I do is turn on the new quick preview mode. I know my machine isn't quick and it always had problems displaying even thumbnails. Quick preview mode uses a RAW file's built in
jpeg preview to avoid having to process the RAW, it speeds things up quite nicely.
Oh, but if only it were all so good.
As soon as I asked for any kind of heavy lifting it all just ground to a halt. Even using the straighten tool became hit and miss, every mouse movement lead to some rotation, it was just delayed by 5-10 seconds.
I though about exporting a few images to Photoshop to do a photomerge, then I thought better of it.
Whenever someone says to me 'What computer do I need to run xyz software?" I've always said that anything will run it, it just depends how much time you have.
With Aperture however, you really must have an Intel machine
I't's not just about the time it takes to process your files at the end, with Aperture you're always processing the file.
I'll just have to hope that my Powerbook blows up sometime soon. Or maybe I'll buy an iMac, I could do with some work-home separation!
Off to Apple next tuesday to learn about Aperture. Looking forward to
it actually as I'm trying to use it to manage my own images.
I haven't got my head around the project/library/album thing yet. I
know there are loads of features I don't even know about, let alone use.
If you've got any questions for me to ask, leave them in the comments
below, email me or twitter @alexray.
At adobe today being preached at.
Already been told that piracy is like drink driving.
Learning a few bits about bridge and ps extended version though.
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