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Apple Aperture is one of several professional level photo editing and management tools. It is commonly compared to Adobe Lightroom.

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Which metadata field do I use for the photographer in Aperture?

I think the right field is IPTC / Contact / Creator. You can freely choose which fields are displayed in the metadata inspector. So if you can't find the field "Creator" in the default set of fields …
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What is the best way to improve Aperture 3 peformance on an iMac?

I have tried Aperture on the same (low-end) machine with both 2GB of RAM and 8GB of RAM. The difference is huge; with 2GB it is unusable, with 8GB it is OK. So I would suggest that you first go throu …
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How do I display all images missing a given piece of metadata in Apple Aperture?

In the search tool, you can choose, for example: Add rule: Place Place: Is empty Or: Add rule: IPTC IPTC: Creator: Is empty You can do this using the search tool in the browser view (inside a …
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How do I geotag photos in Apple Aperture?

Drag'n'drop one of your photos in the right location along the track. (Try to place it as accurately in the time dimension as possible. For example, if the clock of your camera happened to be off by 1 …
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How do I work with multiple timezones and GPS logging?

Some hints: Actually, there aren't that many time zones in Central Europe. Most likely you won't be crossing multiple time zones that often. If you first import each time zone into a separate projec …
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"Show Focus Points" in Aperture

Apple Aperture has a function "Show Focus Points". When I am using it with raw files from Canon 500D, it displays the pattern of focus points (just like the camera viewfinder) and highlights some of t …
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Why pick DPP over Aperture?

I guess there are two advantage of using DPP: If you are using 100% default settings, then the RAW files converted with DPP look nearly identical to the JPEG files produced by the camera. With third …
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