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I just upgraded to 3.2 and every time I crop on a vertical image the default crop is a horizontal crop. Having to click the flip button and then resize the crop larger thousands of times is not going to work for me. Any ideas?
Octo Mac Pro, i5 MBP, 2.16 MBP, G5 Dual 1.8 (PCI-x), 400 Mhz TiBook, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
same issue, updated today, found out that the uppper 1/3 is not shown. imac 10.6.8
The issue is indeed known by Apple, and has been for a couple of weeks. So what really bothers and baffles me is why they keep allowing users to download the software update. It seems that different users get to update at different times, as my software update just included 3.2 yesterday.
And while I'm not having the 1/3 black issue while cropping, it certainly is annoying and time consuming to have to fix the problem myself each time I crop. It's not just the orientation, but how the resizing changes every side of the crop, not just the handle or direction you drag. And then not to mention the time I've spent searching for answers and creating or replying to these discussions.
As I continue to try to work, I can't even believe how awful this is. I cannot crop at all without problems. And I fear that when the fix finally comes, that all the existing crops will be wrong, because the only way to crop now is to change 2x3 to 3x2, which is technically wrong. But again, the fact that I can't grab the handles and drag how I normally do is driving me insane. There is no checkmark by that on screen proofing view or whatever, so what can I do in the meantime, besides make the switch to Lightroom?
It is absolutely infuriating Frohmaster. I finished up a large edit last week and wanted to set my computer on fire. If this "fix" (which so far we have no indication is even in the works) reverts all those vertical crops to the fake "horizontal" crops that we had to do to trick the tool to actually work it will probably be the last straw for me. I've been a loyal Aperture user since version 1 and hang on despite literally everyone else I know using LR. I realize this isn't the complaint department but unfortunately there aren't any solutions to actually discuss!
Aperture 3.2.1 just released fixes the cropping issues. Check Software Update or Mac App Store depending on where you bought Aperture.
Crossposting: Anyone know what it did to all the vertical crops that we had to do "backwards" at a "horizontal" aspect ratio? It didn't switch them to actually being horizontal did they?
Shall I tell the Bride and Groom to invoice you guys for the extra time editing?
We are users like you - we do not maintain Aperture. Send your bill to
At least in inital testing the 3.2.1 fix resolves the cropping issue with no adverse effect on previously cropped images (ones where the ratio had to be inverted to make work). Previously cropped images maintain crop and the ratio shows correctly now.
Good luck everyone, at least for me it fixed it.
Yes, 3.2.1 fixed my cropping issues too. No more blanking of the top 1/3 of the picture and the tool's aspect ratio is working as it should have. Thanks Apple, but do improve on your software Quality Control.
You have to create a new preset for export.
3.2.1 so far so good on my MBP. Still afraid to update my main workstation but I guess it's been long enough, haven't seen any horror stories. Thanks everyone, I don't know if we made a difference in getting this bug fixed but I'm relieved it is.
I too think we made a difference. It was great to see the issue get resolved so quickly. I'm confident upgrading any and all of my libraries now.
I HAVE A REQUEST to fix yet another issue that you may or may not have noticed yet, because unlike cropping a photo, you probably don't do this every day, or maybe even every month -- and that is emptying the
Aperture trash, which has been a problem since upgrading to Lion.
So, if you work on libraries that located on external drives (I have about 8TB on external drives), put a few -- and ONLY a few -- image files you don't want into your trash. Empty the trash. And then go to your Mac trash to see if the files ended up there. If your experience is like mine, the Aperture files won't be there. The thumbnails disappear from view, but the master files remain, and as such, YOU CAN'T FREE UP SPACE on the hard drive.
I was told by an Apple Genius that this was a user account error and that I would have to rebuild the user. But it happens on each of my three Macs, with every external library I've tried. So I have to respectufully disagree with the Genius.
The trash works perfectly well for libraries that are on my Macs, just not the external drives. And this happened as soon as I upgraded to Lion.
So let's get Apple to fix this problem as well! Go send some feedback! Fill up these discussion boards!
Or, if you're truly a genius, let us know what you did to solve this problem!
Here's another thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3367844?tstart=0
3.2.1 has fixed that issue and introduced new crop problems for me (early 2008 MBP, 10.6.8). I never crop at anything except unconstrained (no) ratios, yet it now pops to assorted set ratios randomly. Also, the crop tool will sometimes not let me pull one side (it's as if it is set for a ratio though it will not be), as if it is locked, until I touch the opposite side and THEN it moves properly : (
It also sometimes is befuddled when asked to negotiate a straightened image. It thinks it's hitting a border of the image when it is not. I'm not talking about areas that are affected by the straightening. This can be in the middle of the image. Here again it *seems* that if I grab some other side of the tool outline it will shock the misbehaving side into moving.
This is less a problem than the mode changing on me, because I have been able to get around the latter issue by only cropping first, before other adjustments. But still...
3.2 Cropping issue?
