When I try to edit with a plugin or photoshop, I get the message ..."Aperture does not support the image format." What is wrong?

Micheal, are your plug-ins compatible with 64bit programs? If they are older versins, you may need to upgrade them. Aperture 3.3 cannot activate 32bit plug-ins, it is 64 bit only.

Good questions from Leonie, to which I will add whether you have ever successfully used Photoshop in this version of OSX.

If you take the plugins and PS out of the equation, can you Export a 16 bit Tiff from Aperture?

I must confess that when i test with Lion and 3.3, I am not in a boot volume with Adobe Photoshop or any plugins. I work in Snow Leopard when using those, at present, but not for any reason of probem confirmed by use.

Ernie

Michael,

I am not completely understanding what is being attempted, since Aperture does not send RAW files to either Photoshop or to plugins? Do you only mean that it is only when the RAW Master is Referenced, and located on an external drive that the process to send the 16 bit Tiff to a plugin does not work? But you can Export as 16 bit Tiff even when the master is Referenced on on the external?

After going back and rereading all your posts. Please open Home/Library/Application Support/Aperture/Plugins and tell me when that folder, and its contents were created and last modified?

Also, in Aperture, create a New Aperture Library on your internal drive, import a few images, and then test this process

Ernie

Here is what must take place with the use of a plugin: Aperture should present a message that it is preparing the image for use by the plugin (do you see this message when it works, but not in the described error behavior?), and once the plugin finishes, that image which Aperture sent will be returned to the Aperture Library, and displayed as a different version. If you then in Aperture check the file type, it will be what has been set in the Preferences for External Editor. If that is set to 16 bit Tiff, then that should be what is returned from the plugin regardless of whether the original was JPEG or RAW.

The info about the Plugins folder may be useful, but if Aperture can be sucessful with an image stored on the internal drive, regardless of format type, but not when on an external and RAW it is very strange. Btw, what camera type of RAW are you using?

Ernie

Mike, just some ideas ...

1. are your raw files on the external drive from the same camera as those on your internal drive?
2. Can you edit them with the plug-in, if you relocate them to the internal volume (try with one for testing)?
3. And how is the external volume formatted?

Ernie,

I am much intrigued by the puzzle - I hope you do not mind my dropping in 😊

I was hoping you would drop in. We need some more info, but if the error message is coming as Aperture is preparing a quasi-master, then it would seem to either be different RAW format, or something with the external drive, per se.

Ernie

Mike,

Wow!

Can you choose one of these in Aperture, click on File/Consoldate Master, and then see if it will work?

Also before this, if you use the Show in Finder command, and then Get Info, what is reported, particularly for permissions?

Ernie

I did not see it before I last posted. By "brought into Aperture" do you mean to store in the Aperture Library when you Import, or with the Consolidate Masters command?

Ernie

I did see the response about it being referenced, but did see the post asking me if I had seen that, btw.

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