Ed Smiley's Blog

Since I am on the road too and from work a little over an hour a day, I always try to squeeze as much as learning time as I can. Now with the new version of Aperture out, I would love to be able to listen (No watching while driving! ) to the aperture tutorials on my daily commute. I found this link to download all the tutorials, but the links included are for the old version on the tutorials. So I created a list below of the 50 new Aperture tutorials. Click on this link, highlight all of the links, then drag them to the Safari downloads window. All the tutorials will download to your Safari downloads folder. Now listen and watch anywhere, at any time!

Aperture 2 is now available. I downloaded the trial and I have been playing around with it for a little bit. Seems to me Apple is starting to lean towards making this just a step above Iphoto rather then making it a Pro application. When it came out in late 2005, it was $499. Now it is down to $199, $100 below its closest competitor, Lightroom. There seems to be many great changes, including a whole facelift of the Aperture interface. The nicest thing for me, and my Macbook’s poor onboard video card, is that (apparently) the Aperture developers focused on performance. Faster imports, exports in the background, browsing RAW without having to wait for loading. Sounds like music to my ears!