After updating to Aperture 3.3 all my icons appears in Black and white. This includes the inspect button, photo stream button, the Facebook / flicker share button. Could you please help here ?

I agree. Monochrome is senseless. It is difficult enough in Lion. I will not update Aperture.

Totally agree with you all, this will for sure slow my work flow and make my aperture time far less efficient.

what in the name of god were they thinking.

Agreed! Can't believe they did this....

It is really difficult to find anything in the gray-in-gray library inspector tab, so I went to the trouble and painted the icons a little bit in Photoshop: 😀

Very nicely chosen 😎 . Apple should buy your nibs and be done with it. (Or -- speaking in NIBbles -- if they are going to stick us with grisaille, use the exemplary original NIBs from the NeXT.)

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Thanks for the compliment, Kirby! And from an artist too! 😊

They changed the format of the of the icons considerable from version 3.2.4 to 3.3 - now the icons have an alpha channel, and many different sizes; for one icon in 3.2.4 you have to create two to six in version 3.3. So I only changed the inspector icons - I can live with a gray Toolbar. 😀

Cheers

Léonie

If I could get Aperture to finish upgrading my largest Library -- 😠 -- I'd take a look (churning along at 100+% of my dual-core). I do think the lightly washed tints of your icons hit the sweet spot between find-able and distracting.

Hi All

Untill apple do something to get the colored icon optional in the preferences menu , you can change it your self back to colored icons if you are using time machine to backup your Mac

here are the steps :

1: go to your application folder , choose Apreture and go the options menu select to view contents folder

2: in the contents folder , click on the resources folder and select (get info)

3: change the permission of the folder to be Read and write rather han read only

4: you will notice that inside the resources folder you will find couple pf PNG and Tiff icons , these are the new gray icons 🙂 . you sould work on replacing them with the old colored ones .

5: if you use your time machine going back to apreture version lower than 3.3 , you can follow the same steps and get the color icons out to your desktop or any temp folder

6: make sure that you backup your working resources folder

7: copy the colored PNG and tiff file from the time machine resources folder into the new apreture 3.3 resource folder

8: choose to replace all files

9: close all

10 : open apreture and enjoy your colorful world !!! 🙂

hope this help

I also provided feedback. Now hoping Apple is listening 🙂

Ya, as someone pointed out, "it's the way of the Lion". Apple is doing this across the OS and all apps.

I really feel strongly that it should be an option. It would be very easy for Apple to implement this as an option and wouldn't bog down the apps or increase app sizes by any noticeable amount.

I do believe it's something some people get used to. You start looking for shapes and locations instead of colors, and then the icons don't distract from work areas. I don't belive everyone gets used to it equally.

However it does make *learning* the apps much more difficult. So for me, I'd have the colors on to begin with and eventually turn them off in some apps.

A great idea, but there is one problem: The format of the icons changed between Aperture 3.2.4 and Aperture 3.3.

In AP 3.2.4 there was only one size of the icons, in 3.3. the icons come in several sizes, for example the stack-icons have two size in Aperture 3.3:

a_autoStack.tiff

a_autoStack@2x.tiff

a_batchChangeSelection.tiff

a_batchChangeSelection@2x.tiff

a_closeAllStacks.tiff

a_closeAllStacks@2x.tiff

a_demoteStackItem.tiff

a_demoteStackItem@2x.tiff

...

But in AP 3.2.4 only one size:

a_autoStack.tiff

a_batchChangeSelection.tiff

a_closeAllStacks.tiff

a_demoteStackItem.tiff

...

Your fix only replaces the smaller size icons; so Aperture will use the gray icons, if the larger scale size is needed.

Cheers

Léonie

Basically, it works. Most icons get back their color. The @2x icons are probably for high resolution displays (retina ?).

Here is a list of icons that I replaced in the resources folder:

(Paste on your clipboard to enlarge if necessary)

The result should satisfy most of you.

I didn't figure out how to replace the grey icons in the navigator yet (top right corner). Any idea?

Wish I knew how to color the Aperture icons with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.

I can't believe Apple has taken away color icons, not only in Aperture, but in iTunes, Finder, etc. The switch to the dull linen sign-in screen was bad enough!

Not only is monochrome horribly boring and ugly, it makes my workflow more difficult. Icons that were once easily recognized by their color must now be searched for!!! This is especially troubling to those of us who are not as familiar with Aperture's icons as those with more experience. I feel especially sorry for those just learning the program. Colors made it so much easier to recognize and distinguish between folders, albums, and projects.

For the first time ever, I am very disillusioned with Apple. It feels like we've gone back to the dark ages! Didn't it ever occur to anyone at Apple that those who love photography and the wonderful world of color might be less than happy being cast back into a monochrome world? Please at least give us a choice!!!!

I am so appalled by this change that I am seriously considering going back to using Lightroom with it's wonderful dark interface, even though I would sorely miss many features in Aperture, especially it's slideshow feature. It would also be hard to get by without Photo Stream, but I'm sure there must be some workaround. At any rate, I just downloaded the trial version of Lightroom 4 and it looks wonderful in comparison to Aperture and all of it's monotonous grey!

P.S. I saw a good analogy posted somewhere on this subject asking how you would like to try finding your car in a parking lot filled with only gray cars! That's pretty much how I feel using Aperture, Finder, and iTunes these days!!!