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Q: Looking for a new cataloging software.

With faces and places Aperture seems like it may be a good choice for a cataloging software.

I do have a couple of questions as our local apple store has no one that has used the software and were not able to answer my questions.

1. The app store has Aperture on sale for approximatley 80 dollars but does not tell you if it's a full version. Is there away to find out?

2. Most apple software has mutiple licences for family use or to setup on more than one computer by a single user. Do you know if Aperature is the same?

3. I will be setting up a separate harddrive for photo files that will be connected to the main computer. (Imac) I would like to access those fileto edit them from my mbp wireless through a computer to computer network. I will require a small thumb nail size file with full cataloging capablity left in the mbp for viewing while away from the network. Is this something that Aperture will do automaticly or do I have to create a seperate folder/file?

 

Thanks for any info that you can provide.

Aperture 3, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Jan 17, 2012 6:43 PM

by léonie,Solvedanswer
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1. The app store has Aperture on sale for approximatley 80 dollars but does not tell you if it's a full version. Is there away to find out?

  • 1+2: The AppStore Version is a full version. There is no difference in the application to the boxed version. The only differences are the price, the end user licence agreement (with the AppStore version you get the better licence: you may install Aperture on up to five Macs you own for personal use), and with the boxed version come some nice sample images, to be used with the tutorial. But those you can easly substitute by your own images.
  • 3: You should not put your Aperture library on a network volume, Apple advises against it, see:
    Aperture: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3252

 

But you may organize your Aperture library as a referenced Library: Keep the database part of the Library with previews of your images on the system volume, and reference your high resolution original master image files on an external volume. See the first chapters of the user manual -

Aperture 3 User Manual: http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/

 

Regards

Léonie

Posted on Jan 17, 2012 10:20 PM

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    léonie léonie Jan 17, 2012 10:20 PM in response to RNBNRNBN
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    Jan 17, 2012 10:20 PM in response to RNBNRNBN

    1. The app store has Aperture on sale for approximatley 80 dollars but does not tell you if it's a full version. Is there away to find out?

    • 1+2: The AppStore Version is a full version. There is no difference in the application to the boxed version. The only differences are the price, the end user licence agreement (with the AppStore version you get the better licence: you may install Aperture on up to five Macs you own for personal use), and with the boxed version come some nice sample images, to be used with the tutorial. But those you can easly substitute by your own images.
    • 3: You should not put your Aperture library on a network volume, Apple advises against it, see:
      Aperture: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3252

     

    But you may organize your Aperture library as a referenced Library: Keep the database part of the Library with previews of your images on the system volume, and reference your high resolution original master image files on an external volume. See the first chapters of the user manual -

    Aperture 3 User Manual: http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/

     

    Regards

    Léonie

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    RNBNRNBN RNBNRNBN Jan 18, 2012 7:18 PM in response to léonie
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    Jan 18, 2012 7:18 PM in response to léonie

    Hi Leonie,

    Thanks for the help.

    It looks like Aperture should do what I want keeping the referenced library on external drive. Do you know what size thumbnail is left for viewing when the external drive is taken away? The manual suggests that some sort of mask is displayed over the thumbnail telling you that the external drive is not avalable but I believe that this mask can be turned off to display the photo.

    I guess I should download the trial version and give it  a shot.

    Would you recommend removing iphoto once aperature is installed?

     

    Rob

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    léonie léonie Jan 19, 2012 1:02 AM in response to RNBNRNBN
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    Jan 19, 2012 1:02 AM in response to RNBNRNBN

    It looks like Aperture should do what I want keeping the referenced library on external drive.

    Hello Rob,

    just to be clear:

    • keep your Aperture Library on an internal drive
    • and relocate the master image files to an external drive.

     

    Do you know what size thumbnail is left for viewing when the external drive is taken away?

    To be able to browse and to tag and grade your image versions, don't rely on the thumbnails, but have Aperture create previews - you set that in the Aperture Preferences. You can specify the size of the Previews to create; I'd recommend to build previews that have the resolution of the screen of your MBP. Then you even can use your Aperture albums as a screensaver or import from the media browser, when the drive with the high resolution master image files is disconnected.

     

    The masks you see, are badge overlays, quite useful in the filmstrip, you can turn them off in the Browser, see an explanation of the badges here: http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/usermanual/index.html#chapter=11%26s ection=9%26tasks=true

     

    Would you recommend removing iphoto once aperature is installed?

    No, keep it, since you paid for the App. But back up your iPhoto Library and remove it. iPhoto does not need much space, but the library does.

     

    You may want to use iPhoto one day, to browse a friend's library, or for debugging; to see if something works in iPhoto that does not seem to work in Aperture. And you can order calendars in iPhoto but not inAperture.

     

     

    Regards

    Léonie