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Recovering Lost Nik Software Presets (And Others?) Following Aperture 3.4 Upgrade

October 16, 2012 - 6:10am

We recommended that you back up your 3rd party plug-in presets prior to the Aperture 3.4 upgrade, but of course many had already upgraded or never saw the notice. I don’t fully understand why, but I’ve been told it has something to do with “sandboxing” in how Aperture 3.4 (and Mountain Lion, perhaps?) handles 3rd party software or software that accesses other applications (i.e.

A Tip for Confirming Faces Quickly

By PhotoJoseph

October 10, 2012 - 9:18am

Faces isn’t a feature I talk about much, mostly because it’s virtually unusable for me. I’ve stated before that I really want Faces to be project-specific, meaning I can turn it off on projects such as concerts I shoot that have 30,000 faces in the audience! I love, love, love the concept of Faces, but in reality on a Library like mine (and I’m sure many of yours), with so many faces and so many photos, there’s a point where it becomes unusable.

Aperture 3.4.1 Released

By PhotoJoseph

September 29, 2012 - 4:01am

A tiny little update, but sometimes that’s just what the doctor ordered…

Per the installer screen:

New iPhoto for iPad Training Course

By PhotoJoseph

September 25, 2012 - 12:42am

I know, it’s not Aperture specifically, but it’s close enough, yeah? ;-)

Backup 3rd Party Presets Before Upgrading to Aperture 3.4

By PhotoJoseph

September 24, 2012 - 6:16am

Unfortunately I am not on my main system so can’t confirm this myself, however multiple readers have reported losing presets in 3rd party plug-ins for Aperture, along with the plug-in registration. Registration is of course easy enough to rectify — just re-enter your serial number — but lost presets are something else entirely.

Solution to Aperture 3.4 Installation Problems

By PhotoJoseph

September 23, 2012 - 5:08pm

There have been many reports here of issues with Aperture crashing after the Aperture 3.4 upgrade. Some reported fixing it by reinstalling the app, while others reported it fixed by trashing the preferences.

For those of you that trashed the preferences — your fix is only temporary. You will need to reinstall the app. Just delete it and re-download from the App store.

QUESTION: Does Aperture 3.4 Fix the “Highlight Tone Priority” Issue?

By PhotoJoseph

September 21, 2012 - 4:13pm

Readers,

Can those of you experiencing the “Highlight Tone Priority” issue (discussed at length here) please report back as to whether the Aperture 3.4 update addressed the problem? Since there was an update to the RAW engine, I have high hopes that this was fixed.

Let us know in the comments please!

Aperture 3.4 with Shared Photo Streams

By PhotoJoseph

September 20, 2012 - 5:46pm

Aperture 3.4 has been released, with support for the new Shared Photo Stream that’s part of iOS 6, a menu command to open your library in iPhoto, and general “performance and stability improvements”.