Aperture 3 Tutorial // White Balance Tip
Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 2:48PM
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It has been awhile since not only my last Aperture 3 tutorial, but also my last real blog post. I have been enjoying some off time with my family and working on a lot of other projects. I have added a studio to my lineup of tools now and have some other exciting things in the works as well. For now though lets get back on track with the blog and more specifically Aperture 3 learning.
In the video below I mention that I have a dedicated domain to take you right to the tutorials now. That domain is aperturetuts.com. This will forward you to smithfineart.com/aperture, but I felt it was bit easier to remember and also to pass on to others.. so why not. In the future I may even break aperturetuts.com out on it's own, but for now it will just be a forwarding link.
So now for the meat and potatoes of the post.. the video. This is not only a tip, but also documentation of a possible bug that I came across. I am not sure if it is only my system that is experiencing it so if folks out there would like to chime in and let me know if I am crazy or not I would appreciate it.
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Reader Comments (8)
Thanks Nate. That is one cool tip. I'll try it on my instance of Aperture and let you know.
@Les - Thanks.. It is easily overlooked.. so I felt it was something worth sharing.
I tried with my Aperture I cannot get the WB to change dynamically as you did in your video. BTW, I am running version 3.1.1
@les - As in it won't change at all or it did to begin with but will no longer change like it does in in the video? I found that after mine glitched up I had to restart Aperture for it to work proper again.. so you may want to do that and start fresh.
Hey Nate, good to see your back in action with your Aperture tutorials!
I just tried out the Shift + cmd + W shortcut and also experienced your bug. The first time I was able to cruise around the screen and see visible changes and the second time I wasn't seeing any changes until I let got and they were applied.
That two bugs in two weeks, I recently discovered a bug with hierarchal keywords from a commentator on my site. Hope someone at Apple is reading these bug reports.
Hi Nathan:
I am running version 3.1.1 and can confirm both the ability to dynamically change the WB and the bug you have reported. Hope this is useful.
hi nathan! that's a great tip ... thanks for the video. i can also replicate your bug as well. i'm running a 15" mbp, 10.6.6, and A3 3.1.1.
If you click on the gear, right to the adjustments menu, you can set the sample size, that affects how much pixels Aperture use to evaluate the WB.