Came across a good free plugin for Aperture this afternoon whilst working out watermarks for posting images here. It’s called BorderFX and it allows you to create watermarks outside of the actual image, in the border. I’ve been searching for something like this for a while, as it’s never too nice to overlay a watermark on an image.

You can do more than just watermark or overlay text, such as create borders and framing, crop and resize and also overlay other meta data. As an example of the border and text overlay, here’s another photo from our trip to the US.

I’ve scrapped my photoblog and moved it in over here. That means periodically you’ll be getting some photos posted. To start the ball rolling I’m going to post some of the photos from our trip to the USA this October. Here’s one of El Capitan with Half Dome in the background. Tim and I have aspirations that we’ll climb both of these one day.

I don’t use my camera enough.
I’m going to try and take it with me where ever I go from now on.

I’ve been looking around for an Aperture keyboard for a little while. I know most of the basic short cuts, but felt I wasn’t fully utilising Aperture in the most effective way.

Last week Adrian and I popped into the Apple store in Bluewater and I had a rather brief demo of some of the other short cuts that are available in Aperture. To cut a long story short, I’ve just purchased a key set from Logickeyboard, which I can butcher my current keyboard with and I’m thinking of attending the Aperture Workshop on Tuesday 24th at Apple Bluewater.