How to use Aperture.
Frasier Speirs shares his Aperture workflow:
Once I’ve been through all the images and rated them One Star or Reject, I’ll do another pass asking myself “Does this image deserve to be a Two Star or stay a One Star?”. Having done that, I’ll be looking at some images rated One Star and some Two Star. What I do next is have Aperture hide all the One Star images by choosing ‘Two Stars or Better’ (Ctrl-2) in the search field, then I do another pass deciding if the image is Three-Star or just Two-Star. As an example of how quickly this can happen, I have a 297-image project in front of me right now that I’ve edited down to a set of 38 Two-Star photos in less time than it took to write this blog post.
This post is four years old, but this is the most useful bit of Aperture advice I’ve read so far. Aperture gives you a lot of rope to tie yourself in knots with. This feels like a technique that I can use as an amateur photographer and still use as I start to act more professional.
