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With Metadata presets, you can prepare any number of metadata combinations for your photos data is pre-populated for my in-studio shoots. The only difference between my two presets below is the Location, City, State etc. Captions and Keywords are prime candidates for this you may want to apply the same caption or keywords (at least as a starting point) to every image from one import session, but these are likely to be different from import to import, so you don't want to make them a permanent part of your metadata preset. you'll see this metadata field when you access the preset, but it'll be empty, awaiting your input. By enabling a field but leaving it blank. if I know I'll be importing repeatedly on the same shoot. I can replicate either of these and fill in additional data, such as client info, location data, etc. The two you currently see listed are my baseline setups one for on-location work, and one for in-studio work. To create a new one, use the gear menu in the lower left corner.
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From here you can create a series of presets for a variety of situations. Go to the menu Aperture > Presets > Metadata… to access the main metadata preset window. Copyright and other critical metadataĪs with Photo Mechanic, you have metadata presets. This will include keywords, captions, and IPTC data. If you're new to Aperture, and planning to utilize this feature, you'll definitely want to check out “Live Training Session 104: Smart Albums & Search”. Personally I think I'd favor the Smart Album approach, but it's all up to the individual.īy the way, I recently completed a Live Training on Smart Albums and Search. here showing us again only red, orange and green tagged photos The Aperture search filter allows us to search by colors the same way. It's color rating system, called “Color Classes”, looks like this: Photo Mechanic however uses a different system, again by default (it can use star ratings too if you prefer). Aperture also gives you color labels, which by default don't have any special meaning to them. The keyboard shortcut for those is the same as the rating 1 star is the 1 key, 5 stars is 5, and reject is 9 (or you can tap the – key to lower the rating one stage, and since they all start at zero, – key makes it –1). So really you have seven possible states, including –1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 stars.
Matching color classesĪperture's default workflow for ratings is for you to rate your images 1 through 5 stars, or “reject”. By adopting these steps, which will take very little time to set up, you'll by flying along with Aperture as quickly as you did in Photo Mechanic in no time at all. So this first part is about the tagging system and keyboard shortcuts Photo Mechanic users are familiar with. If I told you that Aperture was faster but that you'd have to spend a month getting used to a new workflow, you'd laugh me away.
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Part of the reason any photographer is as quick as they are in editing photos (regardless of the software they use) is because they know the system really really well, and use keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse wherever possible. Replicating the touch and feel of Photo Mechanic
That covers the ever-important task of actually ingesting your photos into Aperture and coming to a stage of ready-for-editing more quickly than you can into Photo Mechanic (about… 10 seconds). However he wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary in Photo Mechanic, so I think this will pertain to most Photo Mechanic users.įor the first part of this workflow, importing your images, be sure to check out the post “How to Import Multiple Cards Simultaneously and Bypass Thumbnail Generation on Import in Aperture 3”. These tips are the result of the time spent with Olympic photographer Jeff Cable, and so this is primarily tailored to his workflow.
#SEARCH BY LOCATION PHOTO MECHANIC 5 HOW TO#
In this post, I'll aim to show you how to transition from Photo Mechanic to Aperture. In an earlier post and video series “The Photo Mechanic 5 vs Aperture 3 Video”, we showed just how massively Aperture can beat Photo Mechanic in a time sensitive workflow (and non-rushed as well, of course).
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