Another Aperture File management Question.

[rookies]

Ok Folks, I use to let Aperture store all my Images and manage them. But Now I am starting to download my photos to my External HD and import them into aperture as reference is that right leaving the images where they are without copying them or moving them to aperture. What I like to know is when I make adjustment to the image can it not save it where the original photo is rather than sticking it in the aperture library?

 

[johnt]

Hi Rookies,

I use Aperture too and I don't think that it will let you save back to the referenced file.

I decided to do my filing a different way to make life easier in the long run. I actually now have 2 aperture libraries, the original one which lives on my macs hard drive in the pictures folder and another which I leave on the external hard drive called archive aperture library.

When I have finished with a project I export the project to the external hard drive and then open the aperture library on the hard drive (called archive) and import the project. This may seem a little long winded but I now have full functionality on the external hard drive files.

Don't forget to delete the project after imported to save disk space.

Alternatively you could simply store your aperture library only on the external drive and work from there. I don't do this as I have a laptop and the external drive is not always connected.

Only my thoughts on the whole filing thing, hope it's useful.

John

 

[natjag]

I like that way of working.
I currently let aperture manage my file. After a year I then reference them to an external drive (or DVD), but keep in the aperture library.

 

[rookies]

Thanks John for your reply, to be honest that is how I have been doing it but if one day I decided to go down a different route such as Lightroom or CS4 with Bridge I going to have to have a LONG hual of getting all the images out of the aperture Library so I though I start storing the Raw files in subfolders and just have aperture reading them images as reference rather than moving or copying them over to the library it be easier to get all my images over to a different software know what i mean?

I guess all your images are being stored and manage within the aperture library?

 

[rookies]

I like that way of working.
I currently let aperture manage my file. After a year I then reference them to an external drive (or DVD), but keep in the aperture library.

How do you mean reference them.. Do you mean you just copy the Aperture library to a dvd or HD as a backup?

How do you find aperture do you find it a good software doing most of your work. I am sure there is alot I dont know about aperture like some tricks or some work it does I not know about. Do you have any plugins for the aperture to make it a better software?

 

[johnt]

Thanks John for your reply, to be honest that is how I have been doing it but if one day I decided to go down a different route such as Lightroom or CS4 with Bridge I going to have to have a LONG hual of getting all the images out of the aperture Library so I though I start storing the Raw files in subfolders and just have aperture reading them images as reference rather than moving or copying them over to the library it be easier to get all my images over to a different software know what i mean?

I guess all your images are being stored and manage within the aperture library?

Rookies, Yes all my work is stored in one of the 2 aperture libraries I have. Currently I have no intention of using another piece of software, if I do later I will cross that bridge when I get there. Should be fairly simple though but a very large export!

 

[rookies]

John, thank you for your information. May I ask what system are you using with your aperture and how do you find it cope with the workflow?

 

[Jim.R]

I don't think that it will let you save back to the referenced file.

That's correct. It's because the different versions are not actually images, just a set of instructions about what changes to make to the master file to create that particular version.
The master always remain untouched.

 

[johnt]

John, thank you for your information. May I ask what system are you using with your aperture and how do you find it cope with the workflow?

I am using a macbook pro, now about 18 months old. I upgraded the memory to the full 4 GB to speed things up a bit. It's not that it was slow but for around £35 I thought it was worth it. www.crucial.com/uk