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One of the MacCreate.com readers asked us what exactly Aperture imports from iPhoto in situations where iPhoto images have been adjusted. If you poke around at iPhoto’s organization structure you’ll find that it has a folder for both the original and the modified image. So what’s getting pulled into Aperture on the import process?The ... read more
Aperture has two different file management strategies called Referenced and Managed. Managed files live in the Aperture Library file itself while with Referenced files only the program’s information about your files is stored in the Library and the master files themselves are stored wherever you tell Aperture to store them. When you are moving your ... read more
Aperture 3’s great new Library syncing tools enable workers to quickly collaborate on projects by allowing for any collection of images to be exported as Library, which can then be used as a brand-new Aperture Library or can be imported and merged into an existing Library. Let’s look at an example of how this can be ... read more
We’ve written a lot on the Aperture Network site about the differences between referenced and managed files in Aperture. Our primer on this can be found on our site here. Even with this advice people seem to get confused about how to move images between referenced and managed. A quick refresher: Managed files live inside ... read more
A missing file is one that is in Aperture’s database, but can’t be located. If you’re wokring with Managed images, you’re unlikely to ever have missing file but if you reference your images and you’re not careful with file management you can easily create a situation in which Aperture has imported a photo but then ... read more
That’s a mouth full, but let’s say you have a bunch of images in folders on a desktop. In some of those folders are other folders with images. You want import those images into Aperture and still keep the folder structure. Here’s how to do it.Get your desktop orgainizedMake sure you can see your Aperture ... read more
According to this Apple tech note, Aperture 3 "more accurately" calculates the pixel dimensions of several cameras, and so images cropped in Aperture 2 might have a slightly different crop in 3.0. According to this doc, the difference is usually smaller than 8 pixels to a side. Here’s the tech note in full.Symptoms The pixel dimensions ... read more
A great question from Mac Create reader William just made me more aware of a behavior in Aperture 3 that’s important to note. In Aperture 2, deleting a master file would prompt a long-winded warning message about removing the master version of a file. Aperture 3 has instituted a program-wide Trash and so has dispensed ... read more
Many cameras have a built-in microphone to capture audio clips that are then stored on the camera’s media cards. Aperture 3 imports these files along with the photos, and they’re embedded together for seamless playback.Audio IndicatorAny file that has an attached audio file displays a badge in both the Metadata Inspector and on the image ... read more
Aperture can import audio files from cameras that support audio annotations, and by default the file is embedded with the master image when displayed in Aperture, but you can also detach your audio files, which makes them handy to use in Slideshows, to export by themselves (without having to export the photos along with them) ... read more
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