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Raw Color Treatment

Hello everyone,

I've recently notice a real bad problem with color saturation in Aperture, or in the OS X 10.8.2 in general when it comes to raw files. But in Aperture, I can notice that "something" happens that destroys the picture.

Here is a movie to show exactly what I mean. I take a raw file, import it into Aperture, and for a few moments you can see the picture as it really is, before the god of ugly saturation jumps in and messes up everything:

http://cl.ly/1u2c36302d0K

So, does anyone know how to fix that? The colors as I see them in real life are like the ones that show up BEFORE whatever is happening happens.

Any help is appreciated, ty.

OS X: 10.8.2

Aperture: 3.4.2

Digital Camera Raw: 4.01

Pictures taken with a Canon 20d

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 27" i7 2.8GHz 8Gb 1Tb

Posted on Nov 5, 2012 11:24 AM

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ProPanda

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Feb 17, 2014 6:04 PM in response to wolframs

Thanks Wolframs - I defer to your superior experience with this problem 🙂 Who knows, maybe they might be listening as they develop Aperture 4, although you would have thought they would have solved the problem for Mavericks...

Well, I will download the trials for the other Raw convertors for a weekend test drive.

morph21 Author

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Feb 17, 2014 10:09 PM in response to ProPanda

Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1 still present the problem.

Also, what you want to pay attention to is the Digital Camera RAW Compatibility version. It all started a long while when they updated this thing.

So, even now, when it doesn't work in several different OS versions, like Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks, if they fix this and release an updated Digital Camera RAW Compatibility, it might work on all OS versions.

At the time of this message (2-18-14) I believe we have Digital Camera RAW Compatibility 5.03 out.