This is a straight Aperture postprocessing. The previous post’s image of the steam engine was sent on the full round trip through Photoshop. While I have sufficient speed, there’s a big bottleneck once an image has Photoshop layers and is sent back to Aperture. While Aperture can render and display the layered image, it slows everything way down. And any further manipulation of the image in Aperture is also slow. For example, exporting this image for Flickr took no appreciable time. The steam engine detail tied up the computer for several minutes.
I need to develop a workflow in which the layered PSD files live in a separate archive outside of Aperture. Within Aperture would live the RAW files, the straight manipulations and flattened PSDs. I need to find the best way to do this while keeping the round trip process intact.