Green grid overlay distortion when viewing photos in Aperture

This doesn't just affect Aperture users but also iPhoto and, to a lesser extent, Preview too.

Come on Apple, sort this out. It's REALLY annoying!

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I sent another email to the Apple tech I had been talking to and he said that there had been no change since this KB was published. When I try going to the link I get a 404 however, and I've been too busy with other things to follow up further. Maybe somebody else can find a working link.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3072?viewlocale=en_US

Update with my green screen. After trying to chase this problem down I finally spoke to someone with Pro Care and we may have solved the problem. It seems to be related to the color profile used. I had my monitor display set to sRGB and within Aperture under view I also had sRGB with On Screen proofing checked. I changed the profile to the Color LCD and unchecked the On Screen proofing. The green screen when away but, every now and then I would get a purple screen. After sometime I changed the profile to the RGB1998 and with the On Screen both check and unchecked. So far no more problems. I've been playing with these settings most of the day with good results. It would be interesting to know where the setting of others are set at and what results they would have.
The color profile change should work with iPhoto and Safari problems also.

Hank

Motohank, can you be more specific about this:

It is unclear, when you describe changing color profiles, if you mean the view option in Aperture or the System.

What final settings are you using with success (in Aperture and System settings)? Your response would be greatly appreciated.

Well, I spoke a little to fast. This morning I test aperture again and the green grid came back on one of my adjusted photos. I still think its related to the profile because the behavior has been different. I will try to have the monitor calibrated to or tomorrow to see if it helps.
With regard to changing the color profile I mean the one for the System. I have been playing with view profile within Aperture but, haven't really seen an effective change. I would normally keep the viewing profile the same as the system (monitor) profile.

Hank

Hi--did you guys ever resolve your "green screen" issue? I am getting that, but also the spinning beach ball. With the green screen situation, each time I do an edit and try to work with a single shot, it suddenly gets a colored layer over it of weird flourescent (sp) colors (mainly greens, but also magenta, yellow, sometimes a mix I think. Looks like noise--and looks corrupted.) Usually that image stays that way until I drag the image onto my desktop and then the image is fine and I can use it. But I won't have edited, since I couldn't really see it. It's similar to what the guy posted previously: http://www.clearingthevision.com/images/aperture_fail2.jpg

I have Ap 2.1.4 and I'm on an iMac with SL 10.6.2. The issues could be SL related, but not sure. I think it was running better before SL, but I can't remember. I have checked consistency and rebuilt my database several times.

Any advice would be great! Thanks, Marj

No luck on my part. I was on my last month of Apple Care when all this started and have been complaining to Apple since Oct. I've had the best luck of reducing the problem with switching to RGB 98. I did have my screen calibrated the other day and the colors of my photos looks much ricer but, my green screen is much worse. Last I heard from Apple on Tuesday, was to move back to leopard until they can figure out what the problem is....

Hank

If you are using an NVIDIA card, your going to have issues. I found that openGL implementation in Snow Leopard doesn't work well with 7300gt cards. Google "opengl 7300gt Snow Leopard" and you will learn a great deal about the issues with OpenGL and Snow Leopard.

I tried using Leopard and 2.1.4 Aperture...no problems with any adjustments. If you can give up the SL feature set and you have a backup of all data, etc...in Leopard, you can consider the switch back. I actually think Apple is debating the cost/value assessment of spending hours to write new code and fix drivers for old computers using a new platform.

I have been patiently waiting for a fix but it doesn't seem to come ... I have the issue discussed in this thread ... a green pattern grid like overlay usually over half or quarter of my image, sometimes the whole image is covered. It usually appears on my secondary display.

Can someone tell me, is there no fix in sight? ... Would upgrading to Aperture 3 solve this?

I have a MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz 3 gig ram (max) OS 10.6.2 running Aperture 2.1.4 and an external 23 inch Cinema HD ... I just can't believe that there is no fix for this after a year of waiting ... or what ever it's been. ... thanks for any info on this

NO! Upgrading to AP3 will not solve the problem. I went that route hoping that AP3 would fix a problem that is a SL issue. I have the same problem on the latest edition of iPhoto. It worked great until I upgraded to SL as did AP2.

This issue is NOT related to specific graphic cards/brand, you will get distorted photos in both Nvidea and ATI, i have the problem wit Ati X1600, and an earlier thread many pages long seems to show, that different computers (imac, mbp etc can have this issue.
Only thing in common may be Snow leopard.

You guys may also have a look here..
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2319097&start=0&tstart=0