[Yanga]

I have a tower and a laptop that I lug around for my photography and recently purchased Aperture (which was upgraded to 1.5). My photography archive is located on the tower where I do most of my post-processing. As it is currently setup, I am manually manage the master images in my own library structure and Aperture then generates its database of previews in its own format. After reading around, I saw on Apple's website that you can use Aperture as a mobile studio. Is there a way to sync any changes made on the laptop with the library stored on the desktop? What are the steps that I need to take in order to utilize my laptop as a mobile studio while maintaining the master images on the desktop?

I hope I am clear as to what I am inquiring about.

YanGa

[CatOne]

You can't have photos that you are editing in both locations and keep them in sync with Aperture. The projects will get out of sync, and there's no way to "merge" those changes.

What you *can* do is consider your desktop your "primary" repository, and then use the laptop when you're out on shoots. Take a bunch of photos, import them into Aperture, make your edits (in my case, this is edge sharpening, levels, cloning out way too many dust spots on my dirty sensor, adding copyright and metadata), and do all this work on the laptop. When you get home, export the project with the photos from the shoot. You can then import this onto your desktop machine and all changes are intact. You wouldn't want to sync from this point forward, but it makes it very easy and straightforward to do mobile editing.

Did this just this past weekend:

SmugMug - Bill Lloyd (blloyd) : Eastern Sierra Fall 2006

And it worked great. I also noticed that my 2.16 GHz MacBook Pro seems to be faster for most editing tasks than my Quad G5 with 7800 GT (!).

[Yanga]

Thank you for the quick response. But this begs another question. If I adopt your workflow and ends up editing photos on the laptop and exporting them to my tower at home, how do I ensure that the export will reflect the fact that my master's will be manually placed in my library structure and that the exported project will appropriately link to that?

Btw, thank you for that link of the Yosemite mountains. I am especially like the shot that you have of the rusted wheel.

YanGa