Stewart Graham

Q: Have today loaded the 3.3 up date on Aperture. After the up date the colour of the Menu Bar and all icons showing projects / albums etc are now grey. Any thoughts on how to reestablish the colours.

Have today loaded the3.3 up on Aperture. After the update the colour of the icons in the Menu Bar and all project / album icons went grey. Any thoughts on how to re-establish the various colours?

 

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Aperture 3, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Jun 13, 2012 11:48 AM

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  • by Owen A,Helpful

    Owen A Owen A Jun 13, 2012 11:52 AM in response to Stewart Graham
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    Jun 13, 2012 11:52 AM in response to Stewart Graham

    This is the new look of Aperture 3.3, from the release notes:

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1540

    • Newly designed monochrome source list and toolbar icons
  • by Stewart Graham,Solvedanswer

    Stewart Graham Stewart Graham Jun 13, 2012 11:57 AM in response to Owen A
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    Jun 13, 2012 11:57 AM in response to Owen A

    This sems a retrograde step - I just do not understand why ?

  • by Kirby Krieger,Helpful

    Kirby Krieger Kirby Krieger Jun 13, 2012 11:58 AM in response to Stewart Graham
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    Jun 13, 2012 11:58 AM in response to Stewart Graham

    There has a good bit of discussion about this already.  Join in some of the other threads.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 13, 2012 12:12 PM in response to Stewart Graham
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    Jun 13, 2012 12:12 PM in response to Stewart Graham

    Any thoughts on how to re-establish the various colours?

    Stewart,

     

    You can bring the color back, but only if you are an experienced programmer and understand how to patch a Cocoa application. To bring back color you will have to diligently replace the tiff-images in the Aperture Application bundle (folder "Resources") by colored images of exactly the same size and image type. The iPhoto Users have done exactly that to bring back the color to iPhoto - Old Toad  kindly pointed out this article out to me:

     

    iCraig » Blog Archive » Restore colour to iPhoto 9.1.5.

     

    Regards

    Léonie

  • by joeysven,

    joeysven joeysven Jun 14, 2012 6:40 AM in response to Stewart Graham
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    Jun 14, 2012 6:40 AM in response to Stewart Graham

    It's truly amazing Apple is doing this! Aperture is a professional Photo application. Photo's are all about Color. The colored sidebar helped me to orginize my workflow! Now it's one big Monochrome disaster! At least Apple should give their customers a choice for Monochrome or Color!! If I wanted Monochrome I would have been a Windows user!!!!!! Comon' Apple, shape up!!!

  • by Xian Rinpoche,

    Xian Rinpoche Xian Rinpoche Jun 14, 2012 7:42 AM in response to Stewart Graham
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    Jun 14, 2012 7:42 AM in response to Stewart Graham

    Stewart Graham wrote:

     

    This sems a retrograde step - I just do not understand why ?

    This assumes that the removal of color is a step forward. The ability to see something at a glance is enhanced a great deal by color, especially on high-resolution displays where the icons are small. By removing the colors, Apple has effectively made it harder to navigate Aperture. Sure, it may only be a second or two, but professional applications like this stake their names on being efficient, since a few seconds every couple of minutes adds up to many hours over the course of a year. (I recall a Microsoft study that showed that changing the location of a particular icon resulted in hundreds of days of saved productivity in a year across the entire user base),

  • by Bob Rockefeller,

    Bob Rockefeller Bob Rockefeller Jun 14, 2012 8:55 AM in response to Stewart Graham
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    Jun 14, 2012 8:55 AM in response to Stewart Graham

    Too much whining. When aperture 3 came out, people complained how "unprofessional" the big cartoony colored icons were. Now it's how unprofessional the grayscale icons are.

     

    Bob

  • by Xian Rinpoche,

    Xian Rinpoche Xian Rinpoche Jun 14, 2012 8:59 AM in response to Bob Rockefeller
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    Jun 14, 2012 8:59 AM in response to Bob Rockefeller

    Whining about whining. We've come full circle.

  • by peter_watt,

    peter_watt peter_watt Jul 25, 2012 8:30 AM in response to Bob Rockefeller
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    Jul 25, 2012 8:30 AM in response to Bob Rockefeller

    Bob Rockefeller wrote:

     

    Too much whining. When aperture 3 came out, people complained how "unprofessional" the big cartoony colored icons were. Now it's how unprofessional the grayscale icons are.

     

    Bob

     

    Its not the same people!  And if Apple thought feedback was whining we would be in big trouble.

     

    How difficult is it to put a gray/color option in preferences? Including design, code and test I would guess 80 person hours.

  • by kuchdesign,

    kuchdesign kuchdesign Jul 25, 2012 10:07 AM in response to joeysven
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    Jul 25, 2012 10:07 AM in response to joeysven

    I agree 100%

    I relied very much on the color icons to organize my photos...Now everything looks the same. It makes Aperture difficult to use. It has lost a great deal of it's user friendliness with even such a small change. It is so un Apple like. Apple is about color and fun. I really hate that I don't have an option to turn the color icons back on!

     

    APPLE PLEASE FIX THIS!

  • by SierraDragon,

    SierraDragon SierraDragon Jul 25, 2012 11:21 AM in response to Stewart Graham
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    Jul 25, 2012 11:21 AM in response to Stewart Graham

    Aperture is a professional image management application.

     

    Color anywhere on the display(s) affects the color perception of images on the display(s). I for one think that for a professional image management application available monochrome for the app is much preferable, even mandatory.

     

    Personally I strongly congratulate the Aperture team for the move to monochrome. I suggest that folks who like to have color on the app itself request an option to apply color to the app. Best would be a color on/off toggle so we could have a professional monochrome workspace for editing but switch to color for organizing.

     

    Just my 02.

     

    -Allen