• Notes on Migrating an Aperture Library from Aperture to Photos for Mac

    Photos is the first native Apple application, that lets you store a photo library in iCloud and sync it across all devices. (Get started with Photos for OS X - Apple Support) While the new Photos application has not m...view more
    léonie
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  • How to Print Aperture Books After the Print Services Have Been Discontinued

    Apple stopped the Print Services for Aperture print products and iPhoto projects on march 21, 2016.   When we try to order a book, we will see this message. And the menu entry "Aperture > Aperture Plug-in...view more
    léonie
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  • Batch Remove the First Part of the Captions

    The problem has been posted by Tony Gay in this discussion:  Can Aperture import metadata?   How to remove a fixed string from the start of the captions of all selected photos?   Here is an Apple Scri...view more
    léonie
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  • Patching Aperture 3.4.5 to make Places work again

    Aperture 3.4.5 and other earlier versions are using Google Maps in the Places view. Apple did not renew the contract with Google and the Maps are no longer working in Aperture. User cotton-x posted a clever fix to pat...view more
    léonie
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  • Updating to Aperture 3.6 After the Release of Photos

    Only Aperture 3.6 is fully compatible with MacOS X 10.10.3, so you need to update to version Aperture 3.6. after upgrading to MacOS X 10.10.3. But Aperture is no longer sold at the Mac App Store, and the Updates p...view more
    léonie
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  • Aperture UI issues

    Problems with the UI can sometimes be resolved by removing the Preference file.   See Get help with Aperture 3 - Apple Support , scroll down until you see Reset the user preferences   and follow the direct...view more
    Frank Caggiano
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  • How to Screen an Aperture Library for Corrupted Image Files or Videos

    Sometimes Aperture will hang on opening or even crash, if the Aperture Library contains corrupted, bad media - image files or videos. Typically this will happen when you open the Aperture Library again after importing...view more
    léonie
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  • Keep iPhoto - It May Come in Handy!

    Aperture 3.3 (or later) and iPhoto 9.3 (or later) now share an unified libary format and can open each other's library, so what would be the point of keeping iPhoto around? That is a frequently asked question. Apertur...view more
    léonie
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  • The Big Three: Setting your camera for the best Aperture RAW results

    "The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways." -Ansel Adams   Ansel, of course, was working with film negatives and individually p...view more
    Keith Barkley
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  • Modifying EXIF tags of Originals Using exiftool: camera, lens, gps

    Aperture does not provide tools to modify the exif tags, that are supposed to be set by the camera, like lens information, camera make, etc. This is fine, as long as an image has these tags, and they are correct. But ...view more
    léonie
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  • Time Lapse Photography in Aperture

    A while back I wrote an Applescript that will enable you to do time lapse photography with your camera tethered to Aperture.   See Time lapse photography on the cheap.view more
    Frank Caggiano
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  • New to Aperture? Some Considerations when Designing your First Aperture Library

    Aperture has been designed to manage very large databases. My main Aperture library holds all my private photos of our family history back to 1880.  To be able to use a large database efficiently, and to find the...view more
    léonie
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  • If Aperture is unresponsive, how to quit?

    Sometimes the graphical user interface (GUI) of a program may become unresponsive, for example, if the program is waiting for an event that will never happen. The program may be waiting for input from a panel that the...view more
    léonie
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  • How do I access my Photos in Aperture?

    If you're new to Aperture it can be a little confusing. You may be used to organising files in folders on your Hard Drive. This is a perfectly good way to organise files but limited for organising Photos.   Reme...view more
    Terence Devlin
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  • Keywords or ratings are applied only to one of the selected images - why?

    A frequently asked Question: "In the Browser several images are selected, but if you try to assign keywords, rating, or other metadata tags, they are applied to only one of the selected images - why?"   The reas...view more
    léonie
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  • Using Quartz Filters with Aperture

      All standard quartz filters are available as Automator actions, and if you create an Automator service that uses these actions, you can apply them to Aperture images by activating them from the Aperture "Servi...view more
    léonie
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  • The Well-Trod Path: a Beginner's Guide to how Aperture's major parts inter-relate

    Aperture is powerful and customizable, but it arrives with little or nothing to help beginners get over the tall conceptual hurdle they must clear before they can continue along the path to profiency and mastery. ...view more
    Kirby Krieger
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  • Why is there no iDVD on my new Mac?

    Why is there no iDVD on my new Mac?   Apple insists that the entire world has access to fast broadband (and are prepared to pay for the considerable bandwidth usage) and wants to distribute home movies to friends...view more
    Klaus1
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  • Recovering Adjustment Presets

    If you ever delete any of the stock Adjustment Presets supplied by Aperture you can do the following to get them back:   First Quit Aperture   Go to folder ~/Library/Application Support/Aperture - That is ...view more
    Frank Caggiano
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  • Images not appearing in browser, search filter is cleared

    There is a strangeness in Aperture which sometimes causes the filter on the Photos browser to get confused.   To check to see if this is your problem do:   Select a smart folder in your library, anyone doe...view more
    Frank Caggiano
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