AUN/Sara France Aperture 3 Adjustement Preset Pack 1 Available

Is there somewhere I can actually see what these presets do? Sample images for the presets would help.

i am looking for a Droste effect preset, which is available for the iphone, and is available on Adobe.
Any hope of it being available on Aperture?

When I first heard of the release of Aperture 3 I was excited. I waited long for this update to my favorite app. I looked at the system requirements and after seeing that my 2 years old MAC PRO with 4GB of memory met Apple requirements I quickly downloaded and installed it. It has some very nice and impressive new features. Everything I hope for and wanted to help me come back to Aperture. Everything… global presets, nice localized adjustments via brushes, curves, awesome slide show features, nice expansions to the book making, except one thing… the most important one… performance.

I have spent most of the last two days trying to create the proper environment for Aperture 3. To give it a fair chance. I wanted desperately to work. I even did an erase and clean install of Snow Leopard.

At first glance it seems like it is there. Everything seems to work better and faster until I zoomed to 100% to work on details or pile up two or three brushes adjustments or straightened and good old Aperture came out. At least for me, in my 2 yeas old, $4k MAC PRO, Aperture becomes totally useless.

Maybe if I buy a new MAC PRO… Apparently it work fine on the latest MACs, but wait.. why should I have to give Apple another $2K or $4k just to run a $199 software? Why can Apple engineers can do what Adobe has consistently demonstrated in three releases of Lightroom that it can outperform Aperture event in a G4 or G5… Why can Apple get it right? I can run the latest version of Final Cut and Colors in my 2 years old MAC PRO but it cannot run Aperture?

And forget about running it on my $2500 MAC BOOK PRO. It is worst. Cannot even see the Presets previews.

Release after release Apple has demonstrated that they can get the bling in Aperture but cannot get the performance. All 3 Aperture releases although an small improvement from the one before, it has been a disappointment.

I originally bought my MAC PRO just to run Aperture 1.5. I made sure that it exceeded Apple’s requirement. After 1 month I had to switch to Lightroom. When Aperture 2 came out I celebrated and quickly adopted Aperture again. Two month later, once again, I had to switch to Lightroom 2. In each of those two occasion was a matter of performance. Luckily this time, maybe wiser by the past experiences, I tested it before plunging and saved myself from making the same mistake.

There are many hardcore Aperture users celebrating in the forums. I wish I could be one of them. I waited two years for it. But I believe that after the initial romance with the new features wears out and the reality that there is no real or true performance improvement sinks in, we will go back to sit and wish that the next time it will be right. Even Derrick Story in his blog had to admit that there was no real performance improvement over Aperture 2, but that the “good news” was that Apple was able to add features in Aperture 3 keeping the mediocre performance of Aperture 2. Now, how is that “good news”?

As the say in baseball, 3 strikes and you are out. In my opinion, Apple stroked out with Aperture 3.

This is ridiculous, to be selling presets. These should be shared for free. They’re nothing but saved adjustments. Really money grubbing Mr Schloss.

Hey everyone, there’s no way to drm these, and NOBODY should be selling these. Just go ahead and rapidshare them and get them out there for everyone to use.

I agree with Rob. I will NOT be buying presets but I will be sharing those that I develop. It’s not like you are writing code. You are playing with an adjustment and saving it. If you come up with a plugin I might consider it. But a preset? Think again.

Good to try and monetise on something of value though I’m guessing they’ll be a glut of free presets coming out when people realise how easy they are to create – no more sales for these ones.

Sharing presets helps build a community around a product, this worked well for Lightroom. Trying to sell them for $$$ is not what the community spirit is all about and Aperture could certainly do with a bigger community at the moment !

Hey Rob why is ridiculous??
Presets for Aperture, Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom, PhotoTool and specially photoshop “ACTIONS” are also saved adjustment made by the user as “Vaughn Arthur” said “there are not code involve” but any how people sell them… and the reason why they sell then is because there is a lot of time involved to created them or you work for FREE in regular bases??
Don’t be a child and tell people to share them in Rapidshare because that is not what community is all about, I guess you are that kind of people who support “Piracy” and probably Aperture 3 and all the software you have in your computer coming from torrent and warez forums, in few words you are using pirate software and asking here what you couldn’t find browsing those forums. For you people who creates preset, action and may be software don’t deserve to get paid for their work but don’t forget that they make a living of that. Time to grow up kid and start to appreciated the work of the people that dedicated lot of time to develop software, plug-ins, preset and actions or better for Us….. why you don spend couple of week developing decent preset and share with the community?
How that sound to you.

Lucky Sara. Gets to use her inside knowledge as a beta tester to get these out first.

People should quit whining that they have to pay for some great presets. If you want to go off somewhere else and find some then fine, but don’t complain that you have to pay for someones hard work. I’m guessing most of you came here by googling for aperture 3 adjustment presets, you’re just complaining that this is the only place to get some so quickly after the release. Grow up or make your own you lazy gits.

Tommy, all your assumptions are convenient but wrong. I buy all my software thank you very much. I also share my work, knowledge and time with the community for free and don’t try to profit from having a privileged position as a beta tester. Presets are meant to be shared. They’re not setup as commercial plugins. They should not be sold. Many people are giving them away (like RWBoyer), and THAT is the community spirit. Mr Scloss does everything he can to profit from his position. His site is 100% corporate now, and they have to feed the monkey since selling out.

Disgusting.

And don’t call me “kid”. You’re awfully presumptuous.