ApertureExpert’s Preset Pack #1 “Looks”

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“Looks” is a term borrowed from the film color-grading industry. When a “look” is applied to an image, the mood and impression of the image changes dramatically. Think of the most popular movies you’ve ever seen, and how the way they appear on screen is a far departure from reality. However we immediately become accustomed to the look, and it becomes “natural” for that film. A look may even change from scene to scene, as the story moves in and out of dream sequences, flashbacks, or anything else where the viewer needs to understand that reality has shifted.

Applying these types of looks to your still photographs can invoke the same feelings and moods. Making an image dark and cool, bright and warm, undersaturated, over-saturated, or any other unreal or surreal combination of effects will change how the image is perceived. These Preset Packs include a variety of looks, some inspired by pop culture, some just because they look cool. Many of them contain grain effects built into the masks that were impossible to achieve in Aperture on its own—until now.

just $4.99

Compatible with photos 5616 x 3744 (21.0 megapixel) and smaller.

Simple Film Look — rich, contrasty and saturated

Desaturated Film Look — similar to “simple”, but desaturated

Hard Grain Film Look — similar to “simple”, but with subtle grain pattern embedded

Dirty Film Look — similar to “desaturated”, but with a heavy grain pattern embedded

Movie Look: Dry & Yellow — mimicking the look of the popular Hollywood movie that retold Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey”

Movie Look: Dark & Green — mimicking the look of the popular Hollywood film where machines turned people into batteries

Dreamy Look — bright, airy and soft

Dreamy Look with Edge Blast — similar to “dreamy” with the edges blown out

Don’t forget — each adjustment can, and should be, further modified to suit the photo it’s been applied to — and mostly likely will benefit from some tweaking to get the most out of it! If the default appearance doesn’t work for your photo, hit the sliders and see what happens.

Here are a few examples; more can be seen here.

Original PhotoDesaturated Film LookDark & Green Movie Look

just $4.99

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ApertureExpert’s Preset Packs “Textures”

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Developed in cooperation with Trey Ratcliff of “Stuck in Customs”, these presets offer a never-before-seen way to edit your photos in Aperture. Each preset is built from a series of unique textures, hand selected from Trey’s collection of over 1,000 high-resolution photographic, natural textures generated on his travels around the world (available separately as the Ultimate Textures Collection).

Each pack contains ten textures, and each preset contains a random combination of five of those ten. Each preset applies five instances of Curves to your photo, and each Curve has a custom texture embedded inside of it. Each combination has three variations — Luma, RGB subtle, and RGB extreme — for a total of 15 presets!

  
Preset Pack#3 | Preset Pack#4

Preset Packs are just $4.99 each!

Original Photo

Here’s an original photo, before the presets were applied.

Original photo—no presets yet applied

Luma

In the “Luma” presets, only the luminance curve of each texture has been changed, which means the only change you’ll see to the photo is the image getting darker and lighter where the texture maps are applied.

Preset “TextureStack3 | Luma” applied, from ApertureExpert’s Preset Pack #3

RGB subtle

In the “RGB subtle” presets, the luminance and the RGB channels have been manipulated, and sometimes in opposite directions. The result is certain parts of the image becoming more or less blue, green and red, often independently of each-other. A single texture is often just odd-looking, but when you combine multiple textures (as is the default), the results can be quite stunning.

Preset “TextureStack3 | RGB subtle” applied, from ApertureExpert’s Preset Pack #3

RGB extreme

In the “RGB extreme” presets, the same adjustments are applied as in the “subtle” ones, but with the curves manipulated to their extremes. These are usually “too much”, but can look fantastic and offer a great starting point to scale back from.

Preset “TextureStack3 | RGB extreme” applied, from ApertureExpert’s Preset Pack #3

Check out this video on how it all works…

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Preset Pack #3 — Textures

compatible with photos 6048 x 4032 (24.5 megapixel) and smaller

The first Texture preset pack, containing TextureStacks 1 through 5. Each is offered in three variations; Luma, RGB subtle and RGB extreme.

   

Preset Pack#3 $4.99

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Preset Pack #4 — Textures

compatible with photos 6048 x 4032 (24.5 megapixel) and smaller

The second Texture preset pack, containing TextureStacks 6 through 10. Each is offered in three variations; Luma, RGB subtle and RGB extreme.

   

Preset Pack#4 $4.99

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Killer Tips for Getting the Most out of Your Canon Camera

This PDF eBook looks great on the iPad… or any device!

The info page on “Killer Tips for Getting the Most out of Your Canon Camera” has been moved to photojoseph.com/killertips — please check it out there!

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AppleScript: 4-up; Auto Levels & Curves, RGB & Luminance

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This script is used in combination with a series of Adjustment Presets (included). There can be subtle — or sometimes dramatic — differences in the results of Auto Levels: Luminance vs RGB, as well as Auto Curves: Luminance vs RGB. This script will create a total of four versions of a selected photo and apply all four presets to it, then select and present all four Full Screen for you to compare. Read more about the differences between the four presets on this free Tip; Understanding Luminance vs RGB in Auto Levels & Curves, and Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts in Aperture 3.

Here’s how the script works:

1. To run the Script, select a single image (you can not select more than one image at a time) and select 4-up; Auto Levels & Curves, RGB & Luminance from the Script menu. You can be in any view (Browser, Split View, or Viewer).
2. The script will create three new versions of the image, and apply the four presets; Auto Levels (Luminance), Auto Levels (RGB), Auto Curves (Luminance), and Auto Curves (RGB). It will also apply matching keywords to each image so you can easily identify them later.
3. The script will then select all four images and enter Full Screen mode, allowing you to compare the four side-by-side as large as possible.

  

$1.99

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AppleScript: Open Master in Lightroom

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This script is for users of both Aperture and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. If you have a Master file in Aperture that you want to process in Lightroom, simply highlight the image and select this script. It will export the Master RAW file to the Desktop, and open it in Lightroom. Keep in mind there is no round-trip for this, so if you want to bring your Lightroom-processed file back into Aperture, you’ll need to reimport it. You could then stack that image with the original to keep them together, if you wanted.

Currently also available FREE with the Convert Master File Format AppleScript…
for a limited time!

 

99¢

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