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I had been asking on a forum about moving projects between two machines, and Ian Wood from the site Aperture-Assistant sent me a bunch of links, so I thought I would post his list here :

Forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1092
http://apertureprofessional.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1
http://www.flickr.com/groups/aperture_users/discuss/
http://forums.dpreview.com/for…forum.asp?forum=1017 - this isn’t Aperture-specific but has quite a lot of Aperture-related threads.

Articles and blogs:
http://apertureprofessional.com/bloghome.php
http://apertureprofessional.com/articleshome.php
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/aperture/

Note - I write for both the AUN and O’Reilly, so may be a bit biased…

http://photo.rwboyer.com/
http://www.bagelturf.com/aparticles/index.php

Video tutorials: http://www.apple.com/aperture/tutorials/
Plug-ins: http://www.aperturepluggedin.com/ & http://www.apple.com/aperture/resources/plugins.html
General list of resources: http://www.apple.com/aperture/resources/

Scripting:
http://www.apple.com/applescript/aperture/
http://homepage.mac.com/jlarson7/
http://homepage.mac.com/brettg…leScripts/index.html
http://aperture-assistant.com/…ows-and-applescripts - this is my own site.

Lastly, you can find a ‘presets’ Project on my Aperture Assistant site: http://aperture-assistant.com/freebies

Apple has updated it’s camera raw compatability to 2.3. The big news here is that it now can handle RAW files from the D90. This means that Aperture will now have the capability. Woo Hoo !!! Time to move back to useing raw. I didn’t want to take a bunch of raw+jpeg for the last month or so I had the D90. I was just shooting jpeg, but now I will switch back to shooting in Raw mode.

This message was greeting me from Apple’s software update:

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

Canon EOS 50D
Nikon D90
Sony DSLR-A900
Nikon Coolpix P6000
It also addresses issues related to specific cameras and overall stability.

Apple updated the software to 2.1.2 a couple of days ago. For just a moment I was quite excited. I thought that maybe Apple had updated Aperture to handle RAW files from a D90. Nope, Apple just says it updates book printing. Yippee. It was a little silly to dream of an Aperture update adding RAW D90 support. That will come as an OSX Core Image update, and then Aperture will be able to support it, just like the any other Mac application. What would have been a great update would have been the ability to do graduated ND filters in software like Lightroom now can. I guy can dream.

Several of the blogs and books I see on photography talk about Photoshop (full, not Elements, but that’s another post) and Lightroom. Not Aperture. I realize that Aperture only runs on a Mac, and Lightroom runs on both Windows and Macs, but information on the web is scarce. I tried to come up with a list. This is all I have.

• Inside Aperture
• Aperture Users Professional Network
• Apple’s Tutorials
• Aperture Plugged In
• Bagelturf - a blogger
• Gunther Deichamann Photography - a blogger

Thats it. Really? All of those sites have links to each other, and no where else I can find. What gives? Where is the info on settings for best sharpening results, or how to get different looks out of your pictures. I have read articles on using Lightroom for this recently, but I have trouble transferring the knowledge over. Anyone know other resources?