In my question of “what Live Training should I do next” (since we’ve pretty much covered the entire app now), a suggesting I rather liked was for me to take the audience through the treatment of a variety of images. I could do my own photos, but I think it’d be more interesting to do audience-submitted shots!

Reader John Giordani ran into an issue after the Aperture 3.3.2 and Mountain Lion upgrade where his Libraries wouldn’t open in Aperture [forum post] — he was never getting past the “Opening Aperture Library” screen! After trying many many things, he found a suggestion to simply open the Library in iPhoto ‘11, then close and open it again in Aperture. And it worked!

Let us know in the comments if this simple solution has helped you, too.

For those who’ve been procrastinating on picking up Pixelmator, the superbly reviewed (4.5 star average for all versions!) alternative to Photoshop that’s normally $59.99 is now just $14.99 on the App Store

Thomas Boyd, who of course posts regularly on here, recently brought this to my attention for the Canon EOS 5D Mk III, and then Bob Davis, friend and exceptional photographer, raised the same issue with the new Canon EOS 1D X.

In case you missed it, two new User Tips were posted this week.

Fast Aperture library switching using the Dock by Rudy Ephraim 

and…

Quicker Rating using Numeric Keypad by Matthew London

Another little update has come along with Mountain Lion this morning.

(see update below: The preset installation error has been fixed and the now work again!)

(Thanks for the head’s up, Butch)

Mountain Lion will be released tomorrow (25th July, 2012) according to the Apple, as announced in their quarterly earnings call.

Reader Matthew London was trying to get to the bottom of a problem where keywords would magically reappear that had been deleted from the keywords HUD (and therefore all images) after doing a database repair or rebuild. After talking to Apple support, it turns out that there is keyword data stored in the Aperture preferences (.plist file) and therefore this should be deleted before a repair or rebuild.

If you update to Aperture 3.3.1 and are greeted by a “graphics card (video card) not supported” error, apparently just restarting your Mac will clear things up.

Sometimes that’s all you gotta do…

discussions.apple.com/thread/4067217

Hi folks, I’m back!

I’m digging into the presets installation issue right now. I thought it was addressed in the Aperture 3.3.1 update, but now I’m seeing that it either wasn’t entirely addressed, or isn’t addressed for everyone. I’m currently running a series of tests to try to get more info about it.

In the meantime if you’ve figured out anything good or bad regarding this topic (other than “it still does’t work”), please share your experience in the comments below.

A little update to Aperture 3.3 has dropped, as Aperture 3.3.1. You can get it from Software Update or the App Store or from here, as usual.

The only fix it lists is “Fixes an issue that in rare cases could cause Aperture to hang or quit unexpectedly when upgrading libraries”, which was definitely an issue reported here by a few users, so that’s good to see.