How to not miss that olde-tyme Highlights & Shadows 7-slider Brick

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How to not miss that olde-tyme Highlights & Shadows 7-slider Brick

You can create an Effect that includes a zeroed Highlights & Shadows Olde-Tyme Brick, and then apply that Effect to _any_ Image.

Create the Effect:

Go to Photos
Filter using the Rule "Adjustments" set to "includes" "Highlights & Shadows"
Select one Image
Duplicate that Version
Un-check all Bricks _except_ Highlights & Shadows
Set "Highlights" to zero
Set "Shadows" to zero
Click the disclosure triangle to show the "Advanced" sliders
Reset all five of these to their defaults (this is done by double-clicking each slider handle)
Click the "Highlights & Shadows" Brick Action Menu (the gear), and if it is not grayed out, click "Apply to entire photo".
Click, above the Brick stack, the tile labeled "Effects"
From the drop-down, click "Save as Effect"
Type a name for this Effect. I used "Highlights & Shadows, Olde-Tyme".
Click "OK"

You can now apply this Effect to any Image.

When you apply this Effect, the pre-3.3 "Highlights & Shadows" Brick supplants the truncated 3.3 "Highlights & Shadows" Brick, if that Brick is not active. If it _is_ active, you will see two H & S Bricks, one 3.3 version, and one pre-3.3 version.

You can not, afaik, set this effect to a keyboard shortcut using Aperture's customizable commands. (Don't know why -- 😕 --Effects aren't commands?)

I plan to assign this to an Aperture-only keyboard shortcut using Keyboard Maestro (recommended -- I'm a happy customer).

The idea was not mine. Read about it here. Many thanks to that poster for the idea 🙂 .

Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger

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Posted on Jun 13, 2012 3:48 PM

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Answer 1

CorkyO2

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Jun 13, 2012 4:15 PM in response to Kirby Krieger

Kirby,

Thanks for the post.

Joseph Linaschke over at ApertureExpert (who I believe was on the Aperture marketing team before it's demise) is offering a downloadable 'Effect' at the link below:

http://www.apertureexpert.com/tips/2012/6/12/reclaim-the-legacy-highlights-shado ws-adjustment-in-aperture.html

Same as you are referring to and can be used by those users who are starting to use Aperture at 3.3 and don't have an old version image to pull from.

Instructions and download link are in the 'Or just download this one...' section of blog post. 😉

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Kirby Krieger Author

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Jun 13, 2012 5:28 PM in response to CorkyO2

Cool. Thanks for the link.

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Answer 3

andybc

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Jun 13, 2012 11:25 PM in response to Kirby Krieger

Thanks, Kirby and Corky. Very nice workaround. Making H & S an effect makes it available resident in Aperture and therefore easily available to new libraries, whereas simply using the stamp brick requires at least one older photo to use. This would probably entail resaving an old library under a new name and deleting all but one shot--very cumbersome.

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léonie

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Jun 14, 2012 12:22 AM in response to andybc

Andy,

This would probably entail resaving an old library under a new name and deleting all but one shot

No, just exporting a project or album with a single image as a new library! 😉

I put an Aperture Library with a single image with highlight and shadow adjustments here for download:

http://dreschler-fischer.de/scripts/Templates2.aplibrary.zip

Download and uncompress it if you like, then you can import it as a template to generate a preset.

Regards

Léonie

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andybc

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Jun 14, 2012 9:11 AM in response to léonie

Thanks, Leonie. A much bertter way to go. Though in this particular case, making H &S a preset is probably the most efficient way to handle the problem and Joseph's preset download that Kirby mentions above might be the best bet for someone just purchasing 3.3 with not old-style H & S template to draw from.

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Answer 6

Jun 14, 2012 12:11 PM in response to Kirby Krieger

An easier way to get the full adjustment brick back without having to recreate it from scratch can be found here:

http://www.apertureexpert.com/tips/2012/6/12/reclaim-the-legacy-highlights-shado ws-adjustment-in-aperture.html

This will bring back the existing settings on adjustments made on pre-3.2 photos.

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Kirby Krieger Author

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Jun 14, 2012 12:32 PM in response to JohnTheAppleFan

JohnTheAppleFan wrote:

This will bring back the existing settings on adjustments made on pre-3.2 photos.

The reprocessing of the H&S adjustments made using the pre-3.3 H&S Brick are done on an image-by-image basis. Once you have reprocessed the H&S adjustments to the 3.3 verion, there is no way -- none -- to bring back your earlier settings. The Adjustment Preset that you make by following my instructions or by importing Léonies single-image Library or by importing Joseph Linaschke exported Adjustment Preset allows you to open an "old-style" 7-slider H&S Brick to use on any Image in a 3.4 Library.

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Answer 8

Nov 11, 2012 8:21 AM in response to Kirby Krieger

Brilliant!

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léonie

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Nov 11, 2012 10:13 AM in response to Kirby Krieger

One more tip that I would like to see turned into a user tip! 😎

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Kirby Krieger Author

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Nov 11, 2012 12:54 PM in response to léonie

Your wish is my command. Will try to get to this late tonight. 😎

(Added) Besides, will allow me to add assigning it to a keyboard shortcut. (I forget why it didn't work when I tried it originally. I use it all the time.)

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Answer 11

Nov 17, 2012 2:29 AM in response to Kirby Krieger

perfect, saved old h&s, I try use new version, but when you have a picture with cloudly sky the old version is fantastic, in other situation is similar, but for me is better old solution, thank's so much for help

mauro

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