On Aperture and missing my photos.

December 21, 2006 1:32 AM

I switched to Aperture from iPhoto and love it, but I miss feeling connected with my old photos like I used to. Help develop strategies to stay in touch with them in Apple's grown-up photo client.

I've been on Aperture for a while now and love it, but don't interact with my photos as much as I did in iPhoto. Once I import, edit, and Flickr, I never see them again - there was always something about that accessibility of the cascade/roll view in iPhoto that encouraged me to look back. Aperture is just so expansive and project-oriented - much more about getting the job done. What are common practices that can feel as natural as iPhoto for not forgetting where I came from?

posted by coolhappysteve to computers & internet (7 comments total)

Well I think you can still access your Aperture library through iPhoto (I'm not at my Mac so I can't check). Or why not set up your screen saver to be random photos from it?
posted by markdj at 1:53 AM on December 21, 2006

My workflow pretty much goes the same way yours does - import, edit, Flickr - and I get around the many splintered projects problem by importing all my day-to-day non-project shots into the same project.

So I may have "Q1 2007", where everything I randomly shoot for the first three months goes. If I've shot a bunch for a particular project, then it'll get its own project - but otherwise, this way I get the same sort of mishmash as iPhoto.

Otherwise, maybe use smart folders?
posted by Remy at 7:10 AM on December 21, 2006

Hmm. I'd recommend the excellent slideshow program FotoMagico, but I didn't realize how expensive it is on its own ($79; I got it as part of that MacHeist thing).

How about 1001? It's a Flickr uploader that also will make screensavers based on your library, and you can have it filter by tags. Good stuff.
posted by danb at 8:46 AM on December 21, 2006

Also, hi Steve!
posted by danb at 9:44 AM on December 21, 2006

Remy - that is an awesome idea. I already have a folder structure for Year>Season>Event, but I like your method, too. I'll have to head to the drawing board to find a way to balance my OCD need for categorization with your openness.

And hi, danb!
posted by coolhappysteve at 11:32 AM on December 21, 2006

I have been wondering about the same thing. How about exporting select photos from each roll in Aperture to jpgs and import them into iPhoto. I don't know if that would just fill up your harddisk though.

I don't think coolhappysteve is talking about a slideshow at all, but the way iPhoto is so cool about your whole collection that you can see almost at once.
posted by KimG at 11:40 AM on December 21, 2006

I made the same switch, and have started having far fewer projects, and much more tagging. I have a random project, a friends project and so on, then tag by more specific things.
posted by bonaldi at 11:57 AM on December 21, 2006