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Bookmarks for January 28th

By Ed Fladung | January 28, 2009
  • An Aperture Users Thoughts and Review on iPhoto 09 « STUART FORSYTH .com
    Aperture users can take advantage of a bunch of the nice little goodies in iPhoto '09. Stuart shows how to use things like face tagging and facebook/flickr uploading. with your photos from your Aperture library, without having to import them into iPhoto. Beware: uses previews though, which I hate because they suck so much hard drive space, especially if you're running your library internally.
  • FeedMyTorrents.com
    only use as a means of last resort.
  • Fubiz
    new graphic design portal site. really nicely done. multiple modes of viewing content: blog view, mosaic view, etc.. definitely ups the bar on presenting content. awesome.
  • Fluid 960 Grid System | 16-column Grid
    nice fluid 960 grid system variation by Stephen Bau. great system! pics up where 960 grid leaves off. loks like he's still ironing out a few bugs here and there, and the grids don't line up pixel-perfect, on the right. Also, when the layout goes into the sub-960px territory, anything under 4 column widths gets awfully skinny. Line widths get too small, making text hard to read. But still, an amazing piece of code/art.
  • Konigi
    "Konigi is a resource for user experience designers published by Michael Angeles. Konigi showcases examples of interface and visual design in its galleries, and points you to some of the best resources for UX in its notebook." – awesome.
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Aperture Faux Xprocess Primer

By Ed Fladung | March 18, 2008

faux process image test 1 - full imagefaux process Image 2 - full image
Left: Original | Center: Photoshop | Right: Aperture

Yesterday, I came across a great tutorial called Curvy Cross Processing by Mark Fleming, on using Photoshop’s s-curve to approximate a cross-process look for digital images. Reading my way through Mark’s curves-only tutorial, it became clear that I could probably replicate his approach using Aperture’s levels tool. Since Aperture’s initial release people have been clamoring for a xprocess adjustment block or plugin and I wanted to see if I could get a pretty good xprocess look using levels combined with a little contrast and A2’s new Vignette tool (which rocks!).

Above are two example images. On the left is the original image, in the center the Photoshop image and on the right the Aperture image. The altered images are pretty similar. The photoshop image is slightly punchier. Further along in the primer I’ll get in to the differences.

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