Facefullofbees

A lazy Sunday afternoon, and I thought I would try and put together a very quick Aperture tutorial. Maybe I will do some more - depends on the feedback I suppose.

The idea was to produce something short that shows how I use Aperture to do something, in this case convert a picture to B/W.

Nope... didn't run it... but did get out of bed at an ungodly sunday morning hour... OK 9.00... to go take photos. Too many shots for flickr so thought i would try the Aperture 3 slideshow feature. Creating the show was a breeze... export to a movie was a little more convoluted than it should have been... enjoy...

its not as good as the real photos ...  but you get the idea

Today Apple posted updates to Aperture 3 and Digital Camera Support that effectively makes my little applications redundant.

Owners of E-P1 and E-P2 who are still using Aperture 2 may still find those convertors useful - but I would in all seriousness recommend upgrading to both Snow Leopard and Aperture 3 for the best experience available for photo management and editing.

A big thanks to everyone who visited this site and purchased my little applications. It was an exercise for me in exploring the world of e-commerce, and as such has been very enlightening.

Not sure in which direction this site will now go - but it will concentrate on photography related subjects

cheers

Kevin

Edmond Terakopian, award winning photographer has kindly mentioned my E-P1/E-P2 RAW convertor for Aperture in his review of the E-P2 for the British Journal of Photography.

Thanks to Edmond and checkout his blog here

As a proud owner of an Olympus E-P1 and a longtime user of Aperture, it was frustrating not to be able to import .ORF files from the E-P1/2 into Aperture.

I read somewhere on the internet that by opening the ORF file in a text editor you could change just a few characters and Aperture would think the files came from an Olympus E-30 and therefore be able to read them. I tried this.. and it worked.

This got me thinking, and even though I am not a programmer, I realised that it should be possible to write an Applescript application that would do this for me.

E-P1 to Aperture RAW and E-P2 to Aperture RAW are the results of my efforts.

It isn't the greatest bit of programming ever, and it can be a little temperamental at times, but it does do the job.

It runs only on Snow Leopard... I have no idea why... as I said I am not a programmer. It doesn't touch your original files, but rather copies them and performs its wild magic on the copy.

It runs only on English versions of Snow Leopard. If there is enough interest I could attempt a localisation to French and maybe German. Leave a comment if this is of interest

As an exercise in exploring the world of e-commerce and giving fellow Aperture/E-P1/E-P2 a little something that might help them spend less time at the computer and more time taking photos I am offering this little utility for the grand sum of 5 euros.

There is a review here