I’m happy to announce that Flat­books is now car­ry­ing my Aper­ture tuto­r­ial eBook — Pro­fes­sional Pho­tog­ra­phy Work­flow with Aper­ture. You can find both the reg­u­lar eBook ver­sion there and also the bonus ver­sion that includes the eBook and nearly an hour of HD video record­ing show­ing how to cre­ate your ideal Aper­ture workflow.

Aper­ture Tuto­r­ial to Improve Your Workflow

Is your pho­tog­ra­phy work­flow sav­ing your time or wast­ing it? Can you find the images you want quickly or do you search through thou­sands look­ing for the per­fect one? Pro­fes­sional Pho­tog­ra­phy Work­flow with Aper­ture gives you a fast, effi­cient and sim­ple way to orga­nize your pho­tographs, audio and video by break­ing down com­plex issues into sim­ple deci­sions that any­one can master.

It all begins with prepar­ing your vol­umes to have a work­ing space for your dig­i­tal media, lay­ing the foun­da­tion to sup­port your work­flow by hav­ing resources for import, stor­age and archival. Using this easy strat­egy not only helps you orga­nize your pho­tos, but it also pro­tects them in case of loss or dam­age to your system.

A great work­flow should work the way the human mind works. Rather than cre­at­ing an end­less array of fold­ers, I’ll show you how to use color to quickly scan your pho­tographs and iden­tify the ones in each stage of your work­flow. Work­ing with mul­ti­ple com­put­ers or dif­fer­ent users using the same pho­tos becomes as sim­ple as pour­ing water from a pitcher to a glass.This tuto­r­ial doesn’t just show you what tools exist in Aper­ture. You’ll learn how to use these tools as part of a detailed work­flow that you can build to sim­plify your photo man­age­ment, yet remain flex­i­ble enough to use any cri­te­ria you want to orga­nize and retrieve your photos.

I’ve spent years cre­at­ing data sys­tems and I’ll show you how to imple­ment a sim­ple process that breaks down com­plex deci­sions into sim­ple choices. Best of all, you aren’t using my cri­te­ria to make those choices — you decide what’s most important.

• Under­stand Aperture’s tools and how to use them to orga­nize your pho­tos and other dig­i­tal assets
• How to cre­ate a great work­flow envi­ron­ment with your stor­age and backup strategies
• How to cre­ate pre­sets that do most of the work for you as you import your photos
• Sim­plify your review process to make it fast & easy to spot your best photos
• How to make the most of your meta­data to find the images you want
• Learn how to build a library once that you can re-​use many times over again

My Thanks to the Flat­books Team

I’m very grate­ful to Trey Rat­cliff of Stuck In Cus­toms. for invit­ing me to join the other great authors on Flat­books. I also want to thank Luke Lakatosh and Grif­fin Stew­art at Flat­books. These guys were invalu­able and had great sug­ges­tions for improve­ments. They really made it easy for me and I appre­ci­ate all of their advice.

Please click here to get your copy of Pro­fes­sional Pho­tog­ra­phy Work­flow with Aper­ture.