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Can't Access Aperture Photos from Other Applications

I am using the trial version of Aperture. I can't access the photos in Aperture from Photoshop, Word or any other application (except Mail). I can see the icon for Aperture and the words "Aperture 3 Trial Library" but it is grayed out. Is there a setting or what? I have Snow Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6.5.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Nov 24, 2010 7:58 PM

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CorkyO2

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Posted on Nov 24, 2010 8:33 PM

The Aperture library is a bundle or package.

You access the images using the media browser (iLife & iWork programs use this by default when adding media).

Photoshop won't be able to open the library, but you can use the 'Aperture menu > Preferences > Export' dialog to select Photoshop as the 'External Photo Editor' if you wish (just use the 'Choose' button to navigate to the Photoshop application file). Once selected, you can send an image from within Aperture to Photoshop in a couple of ways:

1 - Photos menu > Edit with Photoshop command

2 - Control-click (right-click) image > Edit with Photoshop command

Aperture will create a new TIFF or PSD version of your image and then send to Photoshop, which will automatically launch and open image. Just save changes to go back to Aperture to work with adjusted version.

One other thing you can do is drag-n-drop a preview out of Aperture to another application. This only gives you a JPEG of the image at the size and quality of the preview (which you specify in Aperture preferences).

Hope this helps. 😉

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CorkyO2

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Dec 12, 2010 2:59 PM in response to billyzero

According to the link below, you will need 2.1.4 minimum for Snow Leopard.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3021

If you are running an earlier version, then you probably need to contact Apple for verification or decide to upgrade to 3.1.

The other alternative is to stay on the last version of Mac OS X that your version of Aperture ran on successfully.

Unfortunately, this is the price of technology advancement and support costs. 😉

KatieKat008 Author

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Jan 16, 2011 9:24 AM in response to CorkyO2

Hi Corky,

Thanks for your previous help. I am having no trouble importing movies onto an external hard drive. However, you say "simply copy the Aperture Library to an external drive". How do you do that? I have some pictures in the Aperture Library. They apparently call them "projects". I can't even select the "Library", let alone copy it. I can select the individual "Projects" which contain the pictures. Do I first create a new library on the external drive and then copy the individual projects into it?

I would actually prefer to just leave everything on my internal hard drive but I'm almost out of space.

Thanks.

Can't Access Aperture Photos from Other Applications