Kiran AK

Q: 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 ?

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 ?

Aperture 3, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Jun 11, 2012 4:02 PM

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  • by 1 Open Loop,

    1 Open Loop 1 Open Loop Jun 14, 2012 4:50 AM in response to Dosh28
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    Jun 14, 2012 4:50 AM in response to Dosh28

    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.

  • by Henning Harms,

    Henning Harms Henning Harms Jun 17, 2012 1:34 AM in response to Kiran AK
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    Jun 17, 2012 1:34 AM in response to Kiran AK

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

  • by ann01,

    ann01 ann01 Jun 18, 2012 4:43 AM in response to Kiran AK
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    Jun 18, 2012 4:43 AM in response to Kiran AK

    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.

  • by vinayfromca,

    vinayfromca vinayfromca Jun 20, 2012 12:27 PM in response to Dickon Whitehead
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    Jun 20, 2012 12:27 PM in response to Dickon Whitehead

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

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 20, 2012 12:33 PM in response to vinayfromca
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    Jun 20, 2012 12:33 PM in response to vinayfromca

    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:

     

    colored.png

  • by Kirby Krieger,

    Kirby Krieger Kirby Krieger Jun 20, 2012 12:52 PM in response to léonie
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    Jun 20, 2012 12:52 PM in response to léonie

    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

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 20, 2012 1:15 PM in response to Kirby Krieger
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    Jun 20, 2012 1:15 PM in response to Kirby Krieger

    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

  • by Kirby Krieger,

    Kirby Krieger Kirby Krieger Jun 20, 2012 1:21 PM in response to léonie
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    Jun 20, 2012 1:21 PM in response to 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.

  • by tjbarah,

    tjbarah tjbarah Jun 20, 2012 3:43 PM in response to léonie
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    Jun 20, 2012 3:43 PM in response to léonie

    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

  • by Robbert79,

    Robbert79 Robbert79 Jun 22, 2012 8:40 AM in response to Kiran AK
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    Jun 22, 2012 8:40 AM in response to Kiran AK

    I also provided feedback. Now hoping Apple is listening

  • by KevinePaloAlto,

    KevinePaloAlto KevinePaloAlto Jun 22, 2012 12:36 PM in response to Kiran AK
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    Jun 22, 2012 12:36 PM in response to Kiran AK

    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.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 22, 2012 1:12 PM in response to tjbarah
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    Jun 22, 2012 1:12 PM in response to tjbarah

    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

  • by Laurent68,

    Laurent68 Laurent68 Jun 24, 2012 2:37 AM in response to léonie
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    Jun 24, 2012 2:37 AM in response to léonie

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

  • by Captain Picard,

    Captain Picard Captain Picard Jul 5, 2012 3:36 AM in response to léonie
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    Jul 5, 2012 3:36 AM in response to léonie

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

    Capture d’écran 2012-07-05 à 12.30.17.png

     

    (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?

  • by AppleFragen,

    AppleFragen AppleFragen Sep 25, 2012 1:00 PM in response to léonie
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    Sep 25, 2012 1:00 PM in response to léonie

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

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