aperture

anyone using this software that can offer me some advice? also if you are using this what are some of add on or plug in programs you are using as well.

also any recommendations on books to help learn to use this software better?

thanks in advanced

I use it.

The main plugs I use somewhat regularly, are Noise Ninja and Hydra HDR.

I have Silver EFX and the Tiffen DFX suite as well... don't use them very much though.

I learned by just playing around with it. Apple has a bunch of very good tutorial videos available here: http://www.apple.com/a​perture/tutorials/

thanks todd, could you recommend a good tool for watermarking with aperture? as i dont own PS or the likes

can someone comment on this program http://web.mac.com/rei​nharduebel/BorderFX/ as being good, bad or otherwise?

thanks

Aperture has built-in watermarking capability... just create your watermark in a graphics program and then bring it into Aperture.

Here's a good tutorial for watermarks: http://www.kremaliciou​s.com …watermarks-with-aperture/

like i said i dont have PS or any other graphic program to do that, so this is why i asked about that plug in in the link i posted

Well, do you have Pages? There are tons of cheaper/free graphics programs out there, that you can design your stuff in. Then bring that into Aperture. Doing this native inside Aperture is much nicer, believe me. You also have the control.

But, since the plugin you listed is free, why don't you just try it out?

oh i do have pages, i wasnt aware that i could use that to do that operation, simply because in that link you posted it mentioned only PS (i am not fully computer dumb but i am still learning along with photography LOL)

again thanks for the help todd

S.n.a.f.u. wrote in post #8354594
can someone comment on this program http://web.mac.com/rei​nharduebel/BorderFX/ as being good, bad or otherwise?

thanks

You can't go wrong with BorderFX, its free and allows you to save your presets so when you go to use it again its there and works. You can use BorderFX to create simple boarders and single line text like these:

S.n.a.f.u. wrote in post #8354403
anyone using this software that can offer me some advice? also if you are using this what are some of add on or plug in programs you are using as well.

also any recommendations on books to help learn to use this software better?

thanks in advanced

Here is a link to most of the plugins for Aperture: http://www.apple.com …re/resources/pl​ugins.html
I have the NIK software, but only use Viveza and Silver Efex Pro. I use the Aperture to Zenfolio export - this way my images go directly from Aperture to my website, no in betweens. I also like BorderFX for creating border in my e-mail images or online images that I show here or elsewhere.

sf1 that is awesome thanks for the info i am going to give boarderfx a try and see how i like it, also thanks for the plug-in link i see some that look appealing