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p.1 #1 · Printing in LR vs. Aperture

I love the new version of Aperture and am 99% ready to shift my work flow. The only hang up is that I LOVE printing from LR. I can’t seem to find a way to adjust borders in Aperture. I can adjust the border size as a whole but can’t adjust them individually. I often print with a heavy border on the bottom. Am I missing something?

Mar 28, 2008 at 05:51 PM

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p.1 #2 · Printing in LR vs. Aperture

Anyone?

Mar 29, 2008 at 07:42 PM

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p.1 #3 · Printing in LR vs. Aperture

mdphotography wrote:
I love the new version of Aperture and am 99% ready to shift my work flow. The only hang up is that I LOVE printing from LR. I can’t seem to find a way to adjust borders in Aperture. I can adjust the border size as a whole but can’t adjust them individually. I often print with a heavy border on the bottom. Am I missing something?

I have just upgraded to 2.1 and agree that you can only adjust all 4 borders equally. However, this plugin may be a possible work around. You'll have to save to another file before printing but it may help do what you want. Give it a try and let us know.

http://web.mac.com/reinharduebel/BorderFX/

Mar 29, 2008 at 08:40 PM

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p.1 #4 · Printing in LR vs. Aperture

Great! I'll give it a try and let you know. Thanks.

Mar 29, 2008 at 09:23 PM

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p.1 #5 · Printing in LR vs. Aperture

The printing module in Aperture is OK but not amazing.

The Book tool on the other hand is great and allows you to lay things out exactly how you want, and in Aperture 2 you can finally set the page size of the book.

Ian

Mar 29, 2008 at 10:02 PM

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p.1 #6 · Printing in LR vs. Aperture

azurevision wrote:
The printing module in Aperture is OK but not amazing.

The Book tool on the other hand is great and allows you to lay things out exactly how you want, and in Aperture 2 you can finally set the page size of the book.

Ian

I didn't think about the book module when I suggested the BorderFX plugin. I just played around with creating a book with one image and it would be easy then to print just one page from the book laid out in the exact format you want. Pretty cool since you still don't have to leave Aperture for another app.

..... I played some more with the book module and you could easily create several different themes that would correspond to some of your more popular sized borders to print from. Of course the book module defaults to over 20 pages since that's the minimum required to order a book. But hey, we're not going to order a book but just customize the framing we would need before printing one image and those unneeded pages can be deleted from your custom theme.

So you could use your own custom theme multiple times.

Aperture continues to impress me and the more imagination one has the more powerful and flexible it becomes.

Edited on Mar 29, 2008 at 10:24 PM

Mar 29, 2008 at 10:19 PM

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p.1 #7 · Printing in LR vs. Aperture

Unless "borderfx" is seriously upgraded, you may have problems, but ... YMMV.

You can always exit to CS or the GIMP.

Mike

Mar 30, 2008 at 04:34 AM

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p.1 #8 · Printing in LR vs. Aperture

I've been working as a sort of beta tester on BorderFX for the past couple of months, and I can say that it is greatly improved from when I first started using it. It does, however, still have some quirks. The worst is the fact that the borders aren't exactly fixed and sometimes the plug-in will export with borders that crop the image slightly. It's pretty annoying and the software maker knows about the issue, but he's still having problems figuring why it does this. It does have some nice features such as the ability to add copyright info, watermarking, captions, etc. The latest version can even add sharpening to the exported image to make up for the slight softening associated with reducing dimensions for the web.

Having read the above posts regarding the Aperture book pages option, this sounds like a pretty good idea, too!

Mar 30, 2008 at 06:23 PM


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