I have to admit that this week coming up has to be my favorite week of the year. It is the week of WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International). WPPI is is the largest photographer’s conference & tradeshow in the world for wedding and portrait photographers. It is always held in Las Vegas and it...
Awesome to see you today on the {b} school! Looking forward to hanging with you in Vegas!
Can’t wait to meet you there!
Loved seeing you in studyhall tonight!
Can’t wait to go. Next year! Have an awesome time!!
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Have no fear, Aperture 3 is here! That is right Aperture 3 has just been released. I am screaming YEAH, I can finally talk about it and share it with the rest of the world!
There will be a lot of people out there talking about Aperture 3 today but I am want to talk to...
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dang it! how did i let this happen!!!!! ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well…congrats to the winner. dang it!
Hey Ajira,
the aperture master class was awesome! Sara was great. There even was a dance off at one point. 
email me at Erik@colonese.com and I will send you those links.
ALSO! I have some pretty exciting news for you.
@David No hard feelings mate! I’m glad it was finally won- the tension was getting too intense for me and I’m sure my twitter followers were tired of hearing me go on about it! LOL!
@Erik I’m on MacCreate too for the Aperture network but haven’t seen presets. Would you mind sharing a link (or two) to that? I’d be grateful.
So jealous that you’ll be at Sara’s master class!! Wish I could be there too!!
Sorry, Ajira… For once being on the east coast helped (I think?!)
I checked this morning, saw 99 and well… Maybe Sara will have some other offers during WPPI that those of us at home can play in!
Regardless, thank you Sara for sharing these great tools, and for also making sure A3 was awesome!
Looks like @David came just in time to scoop it!! Goshdarnit!! I knew i shouldn’t have gone to bed!!!!
I love aperture and can’t wait to get my hands on the new version and on your presets. They Look great.
Sara,
Good luck at WPPI.
Can’t wait for all the announcements, etc.!
Oh, by the way, I think the next post will be the winner. Go for it Ajira. .
Hi Ajira,
I’m going to check that link out. Sara already has some presets out I think. I joined maccreate which hosts an aperture network and got some free presets and lots of helpful info. If you haven’t checked it out you should.
I’ll be in Sara’s aperture master class Tuesday morning. :^)
Be well.
Erik! LOL… my son Chésaweh is waiting for ME to win!! I’m enjoying curves too. All the adjustment panels seem more sensitive than before and I’m hardly opening PS at all. Love that! Starting to find presets for A3 online too which I’m really pleased about. Start by searching apple.com/aperture/resources. I’ve found and used these and they’re sweet: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/aperture/ggzurlipresetsforappleaperture3.html
Best thing about them is how easily you can adjust them to your own tastes. Can’t WAIT for @sarafrance’s presets!
I can’t believe that you have not reached 100 yet. This is an amazing giveaway. Come on people!
I would love to win!
My son Connor is waiting fir me to win!
I’m really lovin Curves.
almost there!
Hey Erik! Not yet… Still hoping to beat you friend. Sadly I won’t be at WPPI this year. Staying home with my new baby. Next year I’ll be there fo sho! Dodge & burn rock. So nice to have them totally in A3 instead of how it was in A2.
Hey Ajira, I’m here! Did I win?;-)
Are you going to WPPI? In Sara’s master class?
Oh, and thanks Sara, I didn’t think of dodge and burn brush instead of exposure to lighten/darken parts of the image.
Oh my goodness! So close, and yet still so far! @Erik where you at?? 
Tips for aperture newbies? It all seems so overwhelming!
The major difference between aperature and lightroom?
just helping out so some friends can be the 100th, very nice of you to do, see you in Vegas
so awesome!
Ha! I refreshed this page about a million times. Okay, maybe a slight exaggeration there… Finally went out for a walk, fully expecting that we’d have hit 100 comments by now. Not yet though. (fingers crossed). At this point, I’m betting that either Erik or I will win! Ha!!
Hi Sara,
Great Study Hall. I use Aperture, not Lightroom. Am still amazed at how much I can do in Pages and have used Pixelmator some.
I love Aperture’s library system and have been using the album design. Aperture 3 is great, just frustrating that some of my thumbnails are still strange and still crashing some even with the update.
Looking forward to learning it better! Was at One to One today:-)
Awesome study hall! Can’t wait for the new workflows!
really trying hard to win! can’t blame me for trying.
Hey Sara!
COMMENT #…
See you @ WPPI!
Still on the [b] school and waiting for you to approve us….
My husband is totally mocking me for wanting this so badly that I’ve been visiting and revisiting this blog post to see how high the comment count is! Missed most of your talk on Study Hall- so bummed. Was getting my burn attended to. 
Hoping someone’s recorded it somewhere or I’ll catch you the next time. Hope I win, hope I win!!
I saw you on the B-school today.
Can’t wait to get my new copy of aperature.
Posted on my the most recent post but putting it here loved you in study hall tonight.
What do you recommend for PC users? Is there any way to get Aperture to work on one?
Sara,
Saw you on the [b] school study hall just now. Thanks for the info.
See you at WPPI!
Emily
Just watched you in study hall with Becker. Hoping I’m #100.
It’s me again. I have the aperture 2 intensive and I love it. I’m sure 3 is going to be even better. Looking forward to meeting you at WPPI.
I want to add a comment for everyone trying to get it up to 100! Let’s go!!! I downloaded the trial today…..and so far….I have no complaints.
hi again Sara,
Is the video you made for MacCreate significantly different than your training DVD? Would you recommend I get one or both? If one, which?
Okay, giving up on my strategy now. Was waiting for the comments to get up to the nineties before saying anything but I’m bursting with excitement still so got to just get it out! I can’t wait for your DVD Sara. I love Aperture but often feel like I’m not using it to its fullest potential. Any help in that department is greatly appreciated!
Are you really not at 100 yet, Sara? I would still love to win
Loved the updates on libraries & projects! I’d been searching other places unsuccessfully for that info. Could you write more about your external storage, backup and archiving strategies? Thanks!
boy, i must want this…huh?
still going…
Hey Sara…thanks for all the info and insights…hope to see you in Vegas!
Sara whats the difference between your intensive training DVD and the download from maccreate.com. are they the same thing? Thanks
i haven’t won yet, have i?
Hey Sara,
I just twittered you on your thoughts on the new Aperture 3…boy don’t I feel silly. Thanks for the informative post. I’m going to play with this program for the next few weeks. Hopefully we’ll connect at WPPI.
Regards,
Carl from T.O.
so…currently, sharon and i use lightroom. how would you compare the two? better? different?
Yes we are going to and we are going to add some video trainings to them. Exciting stuff!!
Now I will leave iPhoto behind for good. I always used Aperture for main work, and iPhoto for some cool features. Finally, Aperture is a real superset of iPhoto – very exiting!
Sara — cant wait to dig into A3! Previews look awesome, and it’s nice to finally have a substantive reply to LR!
Are you going to update your ShootQ workflows as well?
did i win yet?
Wow. I downloaded the trial because the upgrade wasn’t at my local store yet and I love it already. Look forward to hearing more about Aperture 3.0. Thanks for an informative piece about it!
I’m making the jump from Lightroom to Aperture 3! Two things I wish it has (or that I didn’t see): graduated filters, and a history of all of the adjustments. Other than that, it looks amazing!
I purchased my upgrade today! Can’t wait to get into it!
I just got a chance to read your top 15 reasons list, and I can’t wait to get the upgrade! #1 will make life so much easier! right on apple!!
How did the Leathercraftsmen album turn out that you ordered through Aperture? What series was it? 8500/7500?
Love to know more!
so excited to get the new version and to see your training DVD!!!
Got the free trial and am waiting for my upgrade to be delivered! I want to thank you..I bought your DVD to learn how to make custom albums…and have been making custom albums ever since. Now that we have templates from some of the best album companies, I’m even happier!
I love the way apple did presets. The preview down to the organization.
Hey there Sara! 
Can Aperture read xmp files from LR and sort using color labels that were assigned in LR or Photo mechanic? please say yes…. hahahahaha
Looking forward to your new training! I learned a lot from your Aperture 2 training. I like your emphasis on keyboard shortcuts…. Wondering if there are any new shortcuts in the bookmaking functions now.
Thanks for a great post can’t wait to get my hands on the trial!
You can go get the video training right now at http://aperture.maccreate.com/
You are within the first 100 but you need to be the 100th. There is still time!!!
I know, right? Thanks for commenting on my blog sweetie! xxoo
I think I know the answer to that but we are going to go over that in the training today so let me test it again and get back to you.
Allen, it is so amazing with video. Especially for a new video user who can feel pretty overwhelmed. It is simple and intuitive. Let me know what you think. Did you download it?
Let me see if I can test that today. I do not have a dual screen set up usually.
So so close You can always post twice!
Hey Beth, We will miss you at WPPI but congrats on the baby!!!! Exciting! Get the Aperture DVD early and you get a discount and the first run of the DVD. It is on http://shop.sarafrance.com right now on pre-order sale for $99. Thanks so much for your support!
Hey! I really wanted to tell WPPI that we would actually be teaching Aperture 3 but I did not know for sure if we would. I am SO excited that I am going to be able to share all of this with you. The only hard part is figuring out how to fit all the great info into 2 hours. Be ready!
Hey Steve, One of my favorite things to do is take people to the Apple store to buy their first apple computer. Let me know when you are ready. I know that makes Aperture like 2k instead of $199 but it is still worth it and you get an Apple computer with it. Yeah!
Hi Edolyne,
I actually already created some and posted them on my shop site. http://shop.sarafrance.com. I am sure Chase will have some out as well if he does not already. I saw him using some in the video he did online. You might check his site.
Good questions. The download sheet is there to make sure that every card and image is accounted for after a shoot. Also, my studio manager is the one that does the does the download so I needed to put in things that would allow her to be able to check the images since she was not at the shoot. Then I can always look at the download sheet if something looks like it might be missing and it alerts her to talk to me if something does not match up.
Awesome! Thanks for sending that. I will update the blog post.
Hello everybody.
I’m playing with Aperture 3 and i think that it’s …amazing
i’ve noticed that also Graphistudio is out with their pages and you can find at http://www.graphistudio.com/aperture/
i’ve also noticed that for graphistudio you link the old website… just remove /en/index.html from the link and you’ll be redirected to Graphi’s new website
Hi Sara, (I think you are awesome).
You mentioned a download sheet for when you download your images, what does a download sheet consist of and why do you need it?
Thanks, Fabiola
Sara, thanks for all the great info. Can’t wait to put it through it’s paces and see how it works. Really great to see the global presets finally in place, can’t wait to see some great ones come out like yours and maybe even Chase will get in on this as well.
I look forward to trying Aperture 3. Lots of great features
Hi Sara, Thanks for the most in-depth blog of this new version of aperture that Ive seen so far. As a pc user I am always interested to read about what you guys over there on the mac side of the fence are getting up to. Seems like this version 3 is gonna turn a few heads!
Cheers
That is great news Stephen! I will add it to the post! Can’t wait to give it a try!
Thanks for all your hard work on this update Sara!
Hi Sarah
Thanks for the great review.
Queensberry have our plugins and information on the website now.
Thanks
Stephen
Hi Sara, as soon as I saw aperture 3 announced I came here. I knew you would be on it and excited as I am. I’m in you wppi masterclass!
looking forward to discussing more in person.
It’s very exciting to learn about the new Aperture…I was beginning to wonder when all that great stuff from iPhoto was going to be in Aperture and it’s finally here, plus more!
BTW, Congratulations Sara on your wonderful photos, you are such an inspiration, thanks for sharing!
Thank You Sara for carrying the torch for us Aperture users. I can’t wait to dive into Aperture 3 – good thing, I’ve got 10,000 images piling up that need some attention.
Oh my goodness I’m so excited about this. Of course I’m having a baby in three weeks so I can’t be at WPPI to hear you talk about all this at the booths. I’ll have to order the training videos. So exciting!
I hope this is #100!
have you found a way if using 2 screens to have thumbnails on one and full image on the other while making adjustments?
I’m interested in seeing how this works with video.
Hi Sarah – Here’s a question. Is there an ability to watermark on output to Flickr and Facebook? Also, for Flickr, can you specify the output size?
This is really an amazing list – now I am convinced that I have to try Aperture 3
I can’t believe this entire software is only $199. My slideshow software by itself cost more than that.
Can’t wait! Hope I’m within the first 100.
I can’t wait to get my hands on Aperture 3.0. I also would like to see some video training too… I know I’m far away from being the 100th commenter but so what… I’ll get my stuff some how.
Sara, this is awesome. I’ve waited for this for ever! And thank you for the offer!
Super stoked for this! I look forward to seeing you training video this evening! Thanks
I am the 100th person!
This is it! This will be the release that moves me to Aperture for my Album Design!
Thank you so much for all the info. I can’t wait to start using Aperture 3
Hi Sara,
How have you found the new video features in Aperture 3? Do you shoot any video and are your clients asking for video as well as stills now?
good stuff sara. have a great day!
i new if I kept waiting they would get it to us.
Awesome Sara, I knew you’d have something ready to go as soon as Aperture came out! Good luck to number 100
Chris is going absolutely crazy right now! So excited and can’t wait to see all your videos!
It is move fast from one Raw to another?
By the way.. I’m interested in the copy of the workflow training, where I have to leave a copy.. here?
Thanks!
Thanks for all this, Sara!
How about giving something away for the first comment?
Have you been thinking about checking out Apple’s Aperture software for editing or even just for Album Design? Are you a current Aperture user just wanting to learn more about how to utilize it better?
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Hi Sara
What can I say!
I managed to collect my DVD from my Post Office on Saturday morning – making sure I was standing outside the office when it opened at 7am ( Keen or what! )
I raced home and eagerly unwrapped the package
First of all I was struck by the presentation of the DVD’s Having previously ordered the Pages templates for the Jewlboxing cases, it was nice to see how professional the finished product looks and feels. I am sure that your photographic clients must be equally delighted when they receive their DVD’s
The content itself was truly stunning. I have learned more through watching your DVD than I have in the two years plus since I started with Aperture and then moved to Aperture 2. Apple should consider including a copy of your DVD with every copy of Aperture they sell. Im sure this alone would double the sales of their software!
An awesome experience and one that was certainly worth the wait. The supporting downloads were again excellent and really complimented the DVD’s
Congratulations on a superb job. I for one can’t wait for your next adventure into the world of training DVD’s
Thanks again
Mike Turner
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Oh, great shots of David! I especially like #2 with the expression, lines, oh, and a peek of the Converse tennies
great job. cute shots. i mean manly shots.
Wow, what a great shoot. I really like the environment, it is obvious he has style and you certainly brought that out.
Wowzers! I love number two…
Sooooooooooo Hot!
david is such a stud. really, what else can i say?
well except that you’re photos are amazing as usual.
So true. I never saw Kris Allen but he does look like a star.
He’s a great subject, no doubt! Nice! And, he must be hearing now (all the time) how much he looks like Idol winner Kris Allen!!!
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