Q: After updating to Aperture 3.3 all my icons appears in Black and white. This includes the inspect button, photo stream button, the ... 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 ? more
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Jun 14, 2012 4:50 AM in response to Dosh28by 1 Open Loop,Dosh28 wrote:
Apple release devices with the new Retina Displays so we can see more colours.
I agree with you, I prefer the icons in color vs. monochrome.
However, I believe the idea behind the Retina display is that is offers a high density of pixels. Something around or over 300 pixels per inch. Which I also believe is about the highest resolution the eye can detect. (something like that)
The new Retina display also offers more contrast.
But I don't believe it offers more colors.
Although, to your point, the new Aperture does (to a certain extent) offer less colors.
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Jun 17, 2012 1:34 AM in response to Kiran AKby Henning Harms,I agree. Monochrome is senseless. It is difficult enough in Lion. I will not update Aperture.
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Jun 18, 2012 4:43 AM in response to Kiran AKby ann01,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.
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Jun 20, 2012 12:27 PM in response to Dickon Whiteheadby vinayfromca,Agreed! Can't believe they did this....
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Jun 20, 2012 12:52 PM in response to léonieby Kirby Krieger,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.)
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger
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Jun 20, 2012 1:15 PM in response to Kirby Kriegerby léonie,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
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Jun 20, 2012 1:21 PM in response to léonieby Kirby Krieger,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.
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Jun 20, 2012 3:43 PM in response to léonieby tjbarah,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
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Jun 22, 2012 8:40 AM in response to Kiran AKby Robbert79,I also provided feedback. Now hoping Apple is listening
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Jun 22, 2012 12:36 PM in response to Kiran AKby KevinePaloAlto,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.
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Jun 22, 2012 1:12 PM in response to tjbarahby léonie,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
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But in AP 3.2.4 only one size:
a_autoStack.tiff
a_batchChangeSelection.tiff
a_closeAllStacks.tiff
a_demoteStackItem.tiff
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Your fix only replaces the smaller size icons; so Aperture will use the gray icons, if the larger scale size is needed.
Cheers
Léonie
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Jun 24, 2012 2:37 AM in response to léonieby Laurent68,Basically, it works. Most icons get back their color. The @2x icons are probably for high resolution displays (retina ?).
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Sep 25, 2012 1:00 PM in response to léonieby AppleFragen,Wish I knew how to color the Aperture icons with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.

