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Twitter. Carl from Melbourne, asked What's the quickest way to compare the original with the adjusted version and then Don, from California, answered him and said, The M key has always always shows you the master image absolute. That would be a very quick way to do it. If you hit the M key, you're going to see the master, the the original file that you loaded, not the change you had earlier mentioned. Um, eyes in that photo shop is king for the eyes. But is there something in aperture that if you have to use aperture, not Photoshopped, that helps with the eyes? I mean, yeah, you can go ahead and dodge. Um, the I like to open the eyes up a little bit and you conduct those. Open him up a little bit and you can work on the eyes with the Dodge Tool. You can brush in some saturation to bring the eyeballs out a little bit, but they aren't quite a sophisticated of a re touches. You could do if you had massed layers and adjustment layers and that sort of thing, but certainly better than nothin...

g, and better than we could ever do an aperture before. So Terry and Goto webinar was asking you mentioned over processed images. How do you know? What? What isn't Over process images. The symptoms of an over processed image, Our colors that are a natural. Um, you start to see banding. Banding is where you see some pixelated a pixel ization of the image. Um, noise is another symptom of over processing. Chromatic aberration is another symptom of over processing sharpening to the point where you get jagged edges. Halos isn't really big indicator that you've gone into an over processed state. And if you're one of those who says I'm an artist, there are no rules for me. Knock yourself out. But when you're trying to sell Grandma her portrait and she looks like you know Mister Rogers instead of who she looks like, I don't think she's gonna care about you and your Beanie. I'm just saying, Scott, Ivan, this Can I have another question for you from Twitter? Can we or should we order the adjustments we apply to a photo? Does the sequence matter? Excellent question. It doesn't really matter, because remember, in aperture unlike and photo shop, your you know these air every single thing that you're doing is nondestructive, so you can uncheck a click box and what you did goes away. It only matters when you export. So I do say that and I'll demonstrate this next week. The preferred workflow for me is pretty much the order in which you see the adjustments appear. So that's what I recommend people. The first thing you see is the raw fine tune. Let's go and do that. The next thing you see etcetera right down that list, step by step. And actually, Scott, we did have a question on the raw fine tune. Could you just talk to what that is? Basically, every raw converter looks at your raw file and brings it in at what it thinks is the best gifts to get the maximum data and detail out of the photograph. But, you know, some people are very picky about color and white balance in particular, and they might want to adjust some of those things during the raw, fine tune. It's very subtle, so unless you're very picky and very tuned into exactly what you want most beginners and I'm assuming people taking this class are primarily not advanced, I would recommend. You don't need to mess with that much right now, Bruce. Great. Thank you. Yeah. Chris Savage in good a weapon or wants to know if you use a walking tablet and does apertura recognize pressure, pressure, sensitivity with walking? I do not use a welcome or welcome tab because I don't know the answer to that question. I tried. They sent me one. I tried and tried and tried, but my hand just wanted to go to the mouse. And I understand that you're, like, supposed to put your mouse on hiatus for three days and lock yourself in a room and acquire a taste for it. And I wrote back and said, Look at me. Do I really look like I need to acquire anymore? Tastes. I'm pretty good tasting. I just couldn't get my arms around it. And I have friends who simply can't live without. There's I think it's a great product for some folks, but me and my mouse I'm set in my ways, so I don't know the answer. The question cause I've never done it. Sorry if if if you are a walking away, come tablet user and you know the answer. Be sure to send it to me. It photo focus at me dot com, and I'll bring it into the show next week. I got lots of questions last week, and we're going to the same rule this week. Please send your questions today through our lovely live chat team. If you don't understand something I'm talking about now in real time, if there's something you want to ask me about, that's not being covered here in real time. Send it in and we'll address it in our third and final week. There were quite a few questions last week that led me to believe there's still a couple of concepts that weren't crystal clear to folks last week, and I want to go over some of those things again as well as I got like, 500 questions last week. And some of them were quite similar so that if there was a similar theme, I'm gonna try to knock some of them out because I want to make sure next week we have time to do not only all the questions we have, but still for me to show you some of this stuff related specifically to my work flow, which will take some time next week. So the first question came from Dr C. Givens. Who wants to know? Can I import images from a card reader to aperture rather than from my cameras I saw you described during the class and which is faster. Always gonna be faster if you do it through a card reader. A $10 card reader is gonna be faster than your camera. Um, a $50 card reader is gonna be like the flash. Ah, flash reference to a 19 fifties comic hero. That was very fast. Um, so it's very, very fast to use a card reader. I highly recommend one. And if you have a do you d m a capable card reader along with you d m a capable card is gonna be really, really fast Times next question came in and said, This is from Dana. I want to know if I understand this right. I think I do. Are you saying that when we create albums within the aperture hierarchy, they do not take up this space? Dinging dinging. Dana, you are correct. They do not take up this space well they take up like six kilobytes. I mean, it's very marginal. I think the concern from several people was, If you're making all these duplicate versions and all these changes, are you taking up displace, you're not. All you're doing is creating a little data file that aperture keeps is a reference. And then when it comes time to actually print or export that file, then aperture does the rendering. Until that point, it is what we call a logical file. It doesn't have a physical space. It has a logical space on your hard drive. So you are correct. Dana albums do not take up to space. Now. George wants to know. Can you really have as many aperture libraries as you want and switch between them? And secondly, can you put them anywhere you want? Yes, George, you can have as many as you want, and you can put them anywhere you want Now. There were several other questions that had to do with people being confused. If you had it on an external drive, didn't that mean it had to be referenced rather than managed? No. You can have your library on an external drive, an internal drive, it can be referenced, or it can be managed, and you can have a dozen drives with libraries on them. You can only have one library at a time. That's what you gotta understand. So if you have 10 libraries, you can say, Let's open up number seven. If you decide that you would like the contents of library number three to be in the same library of number seven, you can merge those two. But you can't have two libraries open simultaneously unless you have two copies of Africa onto computers. That makes sense. Okay, A really good question came from Susan T. Wilson in Portland. Aperture allows me to erase my media card when I am finished importing images. Should I do that, or should I do the erasing in my camera? Well, this is a tiny bit off topic, but I'm gonna answer because I want to make sure you get the best practice here. Don't use aperture to erase your card ever. When Never. Why is that? It's because each camera has a proprietary file system that it likes to see written on the card, and if you have the OS do it, you may not get everything on the card that you need for the camera to be happy and that can eventually lead to corrupted cards. Now I'm sure somebody will write me and say I have done it that way for years and it works, you know? Well, you know, I used to race motorcycles and didn't crash until I did. So it's important that you understand that the best practice is to format your cards in your camera. And by the way, as an aside, this has got nothing to do with aperture. It's better to format the cards than to erase the cards. Formatting keeps them in their best condition, like going to the doctor for a checkup. Um, see him to skip through that. Uh ah, OK, somebody asked how many trash cans are there? Because we were talking about the aperture trash last week, and I'm sorry there's no name on this question. Okay, well, in actuality, there's only one trash can on your computer, but aperture has its own trash, and it allows you to put your files that you really don't want that you're completely done with in the trash. But then there's another step, which is to delete that trash within aperture. And until you do that, the files don't actually head over to your max trash can. But there's something that you have to know here. If you accidentally delete your library, the trash that went with it is deleted, too. And that's not recoverable unless you use something like one of the fancy data recovery programs that could get stuff out of your trashcan once it's empty. So I don't know he to Highbury unless you're absolutely, positively sure we have a new Internet born media group who found out last night that isn't a good thing to do. Yeah, I'm just just a little stressed. We got two files back. Fortunately, Um oh, somebody said you showed the loop last week. I didn't see how you made it. Get bigger. I'll do this one more time. Hitting the till The key, which is the key right above the tab Key brings up loop and you'll notice this number 100 here. I guess they're not pointing to the screen. Can we switch the screen? There we go isn't And trust me, this woman on the screen is far more attractive than me so we should stay with this shot. Now you'll notice this 100 if you click on the little triangle next to it. And this is very small. You get this drop down menu and that's how we did that. You can change the size right here by simply clicking on this little triangle, and then you can go from 50% all the way to 1600%. So that's how we did that last week, about someone said, Could you tell me one more time how to eliminate the star ratings? So if I click on this image here, get rid of that and I decide I want to give it a five and then later decide that I don't want to have the star ratings on it. We did this last week, so this is sort of, you know, catching up. All you have to do is hit the zero, and the star rating goes away. It's pretty straightforward. Can you work on more than one image at a time in aperture? Yes, you can. So you simply start here and then hold the command key. And you see, now we have three images. Very simple. Hold command key. And away you go. Oh, this is a really good question from Daniel. Daniel Patterson says I'm having trouble with the I. P. T. C made a data in aperture when I export it. It's not included in the file. So here's how you fix that. We're gonna go appeared, made a data, and this has to do with masters. I should make that clear. This is for masters and go appear to masters. And you see this menu option right here, right? I p t c data made a data to masters. That's how you do that, Mr Patterson. You have to go up and select this option when you're exporting masters. If you want to keep that I PTC made a data there. That's how you do it. Now, this is kind of important, because way back in the day when aperture first came out four or five years ago, I can't remember when it was. Now it seems like a long time ago this wasn't. This was where they had a lot of bugs getting this made of data out on export. But now it's really straightforward when you're gonna send a Master Nana version when you send a master out and you want to keep the I P. T. C. Made a data with it. This is how you do it. That's a really good question. Thank you very much. And, um, someone else said they had problems with their aperture library and wants to know if there's a way to fix that. There is. So we're going to really take a chance here. I'm gonna quit aperture in hopes that I can find it again on this desktop. Uh, there it ISS. So if you're having problems with your library, this is a little tip that has saved my bacon and hopefully can save your bacon as well. I want you to hold down the command and the option key. And then I want you to start aperture by clicking on the icon. And you should in the real world see this little box pocket pop up that gives you some options. So this will solve most of your library problems if you my recommendation is to start the top start first by repairing the permissions in the library and all you do is you simply click repair and it does that and then it opens up the library for you. If that doesn't work, or if you're still having some weird problems, like lots of spinning beach balls or just some bizarre behavior, Um, then the next thing to do is use the repair database function, and if that doesn't work, your last result is to use the rebuild database item. Now, this is not. This is not one of those things were just cause this is there. You should do it because this last option here is not a maintenance thing. Don't overdo this. It's not necessary. And it's not helpful. These two. You can do a little bit more often. In fact, you can use to repair permissions to your heart's content. You're not gonna hurt anything. But don't go down here unless you really need to, because you can cost in problems later on. That's really an important tip to remember. Now if you're still having problems with Aperture and and believe me, aperture. Three right out of the box was pretty buggy, and then they did a couple of updates, and in my experience it's much more stable. There are a couple of culprits to look at if you have a massively large library, it's conceivable that that's part of the problem. If you're trying to run aperture with a very slow GPU, that could be part of the problem. If you have an older computer with an older graphics card, you may not have great experiences. You may have to update your graphics card. Um, and then the last thing I would like to suggest is throwing away your P list. And you can go on Google and say, Remove P list or delete P lists and there's tons of websites that will show you how to do that. You're just throwing away the preferences list now. One thing you should know when you do that is all the preferences you have previously set an aperture like, What's my external editor gonna be, etcetera will be gone, and you'll have to go through that again. But that original installs in particular. That seems to help. So I was running aperture to on one of our test machines. I loaded aperture. Three had some problems. I went ahead and scratched aperture three, and then I took the aperture to off tried aperture three by itself. When I finally got rid of the P list and just threw that away and started over. It seemed to help. It could just be my imagination as well, but it seemed to help. So, like when the new cameras come out, everybody goes on, the idle focuses a lot better, and then the company comes out goes, Yeah, that's the same exact autofocus is in the last camera. No, no, no, it's It's a lot better, I can tell anyway. So I hope that was fun. I hope that answered some other people's questions. Did my questions cause other questions on the same topics? But of course, any question. Would you like to go through some of those now? Or would you like? Let's hear a man if I can answer, if only. If I think they're better answered later, we will save him. Okay, so many people are asking, What's the largest size library you should have? What's the maximum number of images you should have in your library? Well, you know, there's really no maximum because each person's system is different. If you've got a top of the line Mac Pro with Max Ram and rpm drives and the best GPU in the world. You're gonna be able to handle a library that's twice the size of somebody that doesn't. But, you know, I like to look at a best practice in the neighborhood of anywhere between 10 and 50,000 images. That starts to be pretty easy to manage. Now, the way my workflow works is we create a separate library for each job. So for us, it's never a problem because we may just have a few 100 images in the library. They're always gonna get very robust performance. Some people don't want to have that many libraries. I understand. But my recommendation is kind of look at 10,000 to 50, is the best practice area. And if you have a super duper machine, you may be able to, you know, double that. But technically, there's no limit. Yeah, great. Yes, a lot of people have that question, and, uh, somebody in chat would like to know if that is an IPad that you have in front of their in front of you is my IPad. And yes, it's featuring one of the bird photos from my brand new IPad app avian wallpapers for only 99 cents available in the eye Tuesday. But the related question is, uh, can I have photos from two different aperture libraries sink to my IPhone or IPad at the same time? I am not aware of a way to do that. You create a folder or point to a location when you're doing your IPad sink, and I pick a folder from Aperture to do that, too. But I'm not aware of a way to do that twice if somebody is, Please send me the exact, detailed, step by step method for doing that, and I will share with our audience. Later, someone in the chat room asked said, I just tried selecting multiple image images as just showed and changing the exposure setting and only one image change. So that was their way to edit settings on multiple images. We're gonna get to that toe edit to actually edit. The images were going to do show you how to do that, using the lift and stamp tool. But we're gonna get to that in a minute. Okay, great. Can you from Goto Webinars. So he's asking, Can you review had to split a library into multiple libraries. Um, said something easy to do. Yeah, but, um, I think what I'd rather have that person do is send me an email, and I'll do that for them because we didn't get that question for anybody else. And I want to take up class time. I tried to all the questions that I answered, by the way here, where I had 10 or 12 or 15 of the same question. So that's why when I hadn't answered him today, Yes. Yes, I have. Ah, A couple of folks who have asked Is the library first aid on aperture three only? Or is it in on Tuas? Well, you know, the system I showed you to rebuild is a little different in aperture to, but yes, it's there. You won't see the same exact dialogue box in aperture to, but you can repair and and work on the library database using the same approach which is to hold command and the option key while starting aperture