365 project update – looking for daily upload tips.

Lately I’ve been pretty bad about not only posting photos from my 365 but also taking the photos. So I’m trying to think of some ways to speed up my posting and enable quicker shots, even with a hectic schedule.

I think my first goal will be to try daily posting of shots, hoping that will keep me more up-to-date.  Starting today you should be seeing a post for each day, come up (there is some backlog to get through over the next few days).

However, I do find it to be a time-consuming process to complete the work-flow of uploading photos into Aperture, processing, and then to the web.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to create a more efficient work-flow?

Aperture on MacBook Air

This past week I visited family, knowing that I needed to do some major clean up to my Aperture library I went through the painstaking process of removing previews and consolidating the projects I wanted to use and transferring a new library to my MacBook Air, which I was taking with me (I will note, when I normally travel it’s for work so I don’t get to take Aperture or my Air with me which is why this was sort of foreign to me). Needless to say that who process took a few hours.

When I finally sat down over the Thanksgiving holiday to work on some photos my Air basically ground to a halt running Aperture, appearing to be a CPU limitation. I knew from past experiences that my MacBook Air doesn’t run aperture very well, I’ve primarily used it to dump and do triage on photos in a single project as I’m traveling. Running a library that was 40gb+ didn’t happen. Each action took forever. Needless to say I am a little disappointed I spent the time getting everything running to only fail, but I guess I should have seen this coming.

No, I’m not going to run out and buy a MacBook Pro, as much as I would like too, but now I need to figure out someway to work on photos while I am traveling with my Air. Any suggestions?

Photo library management: iPhoto and Aperture?

I am looking for input here. Presently I organize my photo libraries (yes two) using Aperture and iPhoto.

I use iPhoto primarily for what  I consider personal shots (shots w/ friends, family, camera phone etc) mostly because I had the library organized the way I wanted using folders and, when I first moved to a Mac, iPhoto understood this organization. I use Aperture for more what I consider my photo projects which has become the lion share of current photos taken.