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Aperture 3 goes green

Now, I'm no expert, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think turning my photos teal green constitutes an improvement over version 2's raw processing:

http://homepage.mac.com/markalanthomas/.Public/green.jpg

24" iMac 2.8 GHz 4GB, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Feb 9, 2010 10:37 AM

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Feb 9, 2010 11:06 AM in response to cwog

True. But unfortunately that's not why the image is green.

I hadn't made any changes other than to click "Reprocess," and I only did that because the gamma appeared to be off and the blue sky slightly purplish after the Library update.

For the record, the images are DNGs from Canon 10D raw files, and Aperture 3's RAW Fine Tuning brick does correctly identify the camera as "Canon EOS 10D."

As an experiment, I reset all adjustments and clicked "Reprocess" again. Same result. Green.

Feb 9, 2010 12:27 PM in response to Mark Alan Thomas

Have you tried to use the Aperture 2 Raw processor - if it was like in Ap 2 and you had Ap 1 installed previously you could swap between the two processes - I got this info from a video tutorial so I could be wrong.

Have you tried exporting a jpeg from Ap 3 and seeing what it looks like outside of Ap

If you have Photoshop installed have you sent the image to Photoshop via PSD or Tiff to see how PS sees it.

These are just diagnostic tests.

Feb 10, 2010 6:52 PM in response to Mark Alan Thomas

I am seeing exactly the same problem with my Aperture 3 library. My files are mostly Canon EOS 5D RAW files. If I click reprocess they get exactly the same green cast.

One thing I tried was to export and import the master RAW file. It seems that if I export master from the library and then drag that into another project inside Aperture then it properly seems to properly handle the file.

Any ideas on how to address this?

Feb 10, 2010 6:57 PM in response to cwog

My Raw Canon 5d images show the same green tint. However, if I click the Reset button for the RAW Fine Tuning on the Adjustments Tab, the picture clears up.

If I toggle from one image to another and back, the image says it was adjusted in an earlier version of Apple's Raw processing and needs to be reprocessed. Doing that, causes it to go green again. It does appear that I have access to the advanced features for this image though... that supposedly required the A3 reprocess.

Also, I can't select a lot of photos and make the reset change to all of them... it only appears to take affect on the last pic I selected. Still experimenting.

Feb 13, 2010 7:19 AM in response to Rafael Muller

*SOLUTION FOR MY PROBLEM*

I noticed something when working on this. I have two different cameras that do RAW. A 5D and a newer Rebel T1i. I noticed that the Rebel adjustements showed up as Apple - Camera Default and the 5D didn't. I remember playing with this back in Aperture 1.x

So, to get rid of that what I did was goto Application Support in your USER account.

In my case is:

<USER>/Library/Application Support/Aperture/

There are a couple of files there:

Adjustment Chain Presets.plist
AdjustmentDefaults.plis
AdjustmentPresets.plis
Raw Decode Presets.plist

I moved them out of that folder instead of deleting them just in case. Fired Aperture back up and now the 5D shows as adjusted with Apple - Camera Default

Ran re-process and NO green hue anymore.

Raf

Feb 13, 2010 4:46 PM in response to Rafael Muller

I can confirm that deleting the Raw Decode Presets.plist from ~/Library/Application Support/Aperture solves the green problem. Well done, Rafael!

Unfortunately, this doesn't cure all of my woes. My images are still opening with heightened black levels and some color problems, namely purplish skies.

Also, this doesn't explain why the "Reprocess" button is available for my images when the 10D is not among the cameras for which updated processing is supposed to be necessary.

But we're definitely getting somewhere. Cool.

Feb 13, 2010 4:56 PM in response to Mark Alan Thomas

Messing around a bit more with the Reprocess button (which I'm pretty sure I shouldn't even be seeing).

In most cases, while reprocessing my Canon 10D images more or less returns them to their pre-Aperture 3 appearance, this is not always true. Occasionally some colors are still a little off — usually blues such as skies — and in most cases the thumbnails and/or the image in the viewer doesn't update right away, or at all, until I quit and restart Aperture.

Aperture 3 goes green

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