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Mountain Lion… Get Ready to Purrrr

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By PhotoJoseph
July 25, 2012 - 6:57am

(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.

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Magical Reappearing Keywords Mystery

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By PhotoJoseph
July 25, 2012 - 3:11am

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.

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Ongoing Preset Installation Issue

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By PhotoJoseph
July 21, 2012 - 2:23am

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.

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Aperture 3.3.1 Update

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By PhotoJoseph
June 30, 2012 - 7:14pm

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.

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Metadata Search Not Working? Rebuild Your Aperture Database.

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By PhotoJoseph
June 23, 2012 - 1:46am

Some users, myself included, had noticed after the 3.3 upgrade that metadata searches weren’t completely reliable. For example, I had a project of 461 images all starting with the same name, yet a search for that name was only returning about 50 of the photos. Similarly, searches for “Canon” in EXIF > Camera Make were turning up nothing, even though they were all Canon files.

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Import & Browse Test: Aperture vs Lightroom vs Photo Mechanic

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By Thomas Boyd
June 20, 2012 - 10:00am
Thomas and I discussed this post at length, before he even ran the tests. Should we do it, or shouldn’t we? This site is not in the business of proving Aperture is better or worse than anything else; it’s here to teach Aperture users how to get the most from Aperture, and that’s it. However given what a critical piece of the workflow this is for professional photographers (fast imports), and that this is a significant feature improvement in Aperture 3.3 (even if Apple isn’t marketing it as such), we decided to do it. And once you’re comparing Aperture 3.2 to 3.3, you have to compare to Photo Mechanic as well, which has long been regarded as the gold standard for speedy imports and selects. And once you add Photo Mechanic, you can’t ignore the 300 pound gorilla in the room, Lightroom. So, we decided to compare them all. And as you’ll see, we even gave Lightroom a more than fair shake, trying to improve its result based off feedback from former Lightroom users.
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Devignette vs Negative Vignette in Aperture 3.3

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By PhotoJoseph
June 18, 2012 - 6:00am

One of the enhancements in Aperture 3.3 is that the Vignette adjustment can now can go negative, effectively devignetting an image. However there’s an important difference between the pre-existing Devignette adjustment and the new negative Vignette ability.

Devignette

Devignette is applied to the image pre-crop. The purpose of devignette is to remove a shadow (vignette) around the outer edges of a photo caused by either a lens shade or even the lens barrel itself on some extremely wide angle lenses. While we will often add a vignette to our photos as an effect, if you need to crop your image, then the natural vignette may not be your friend.

Original image with clear shadowing from the lens hood (tap to view larger)

In the photo above, you can clearly see a natural vignette appearing on the image. The only adjustment made thus far is curves, which has actually amplified the shadow. In the screenshot below, the Devignette adjustment has been applied, and turned up quite high (too high, really, but I wanted it to be clear here).

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