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Apple Releases Aperture 3 With Faces and Places Tagging Features
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Lovely.
Hey Mr jobs, will i finally be able to import from my Panasonic LX3 RAW files yet??? Its only been out for say, 2 years, and Adobe Lightroom manages to work with its RAW file. How about sorting that out instead of messing about with the ipad.
Hey Mr jobs, will i finally be able to import from my Panasonic LX3 RAW files yet??? Its only been out for say, 2 years, and Adobe Lightroom manages to work with its RAW file. How about sorting that out instead of messing about with the ipad.
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Heres to the one single person who helps to get the majority to like Aperture
Heres to the one single person who helps to get the majority to like Aperture
Have you tried the updates today?Lovely.
Hey Mr jobs, will i finally be able to import from my Panasonic LX3 RAW files yet??? Its only been out for say, 2 years, and Adobe Lightroom manages to work with its RAW file. How about sorting that out instead of messing about with the ipad.
1) Can you now finally write IPTC data back into your original NEF RAW files?
2) Can you import the JPEG image that CaptureNX has written into the NEF file?
3) Where is the GPS information stored? Does it recognize the GPS EXIF tags so that you don't have to geotag all your existing photos again?
2) Can you import the JPEG image that CaptureNX has written into the NEF file?
3) Where is the GPS information stored? Does it recognize the GPS EXIF tags so that you don't have to geotag all your existing photos again?
Events. Because it doesn't exist in Aperture.
Simple User Interface. Aperture by its nature has to be more complicated.
My ideal:
- work in iphoto 95% of the time - simple and effective, and it has EVENTS
- switch to Aperture for the other 5% - more complicated
USE THE SAME LIBRARY IN BOTH IPHOTO AND APERTURE!
Why not aperture 100%?
Because I don't want to teach my wife how to use all of its complexity.
Well, that's not quite correct.
In Aperture, projects can be viewed just like events in iPhoto. Complete with the swipe the mouse pointer across the thumbnail to get a quick look at all the images in the project.
And that's not a new feature. Been there since version 2.
This was nice to see today. I bought the trial activation key to upgrade my copy of Aperture 2 Academic (I don't need the physical media). I turned the faces feature off pretty soon thereafter. I do motorsports photography and Aperture thinks all the blurred wheels from pan shots are faces.
The places feature is very cool. I'm now shooting with a Promote GPS unit on my camera and love seeing right in Aperture which corner on track I was shooting from. I'll work on some picture adjustments this weekend, so am looking forward to seeing what kind of improvements are there (hopefully including big performance gains).
The places feature is very cool. I'm now shooting with a Promote GPS unit on my camera and love seeing right in Aperture which corner on track I was shooting from. I'll work on some picture adjustments this weekend, so am looking forward to seeing what kind of improvements are there (hopefully including big performance gains).
Nik...
Not sure if the filters work yet... but would be a safe bet to say they will.
As NIK is aimed at the professional market with plugins for Aperture & Pshop, I don't think the wait will be too long.
NIK software does not have forums, but I have already sent a support query regarding A3.
If you read their compatibility reqs, they say Aperture 2.1 or later
Anyone know if the NIK plugs will work w/ Ap3?
They should, no prob, right?
Not sure if the filters work yet... but would be a safe bet to say they will.
As NIK is aimed at the professional market with plugins for Aperture & Pshop, I don't think the wait will be too long.
NIK software does not have forums, but I have already sent a support query regarding A3.
If you read their compatibility reqs, they say Aperture 2.1 or later
Honestly, Aperture 3 is really just an iPhoto Pro now. The navigation was updated to more mimic iPhoto, and it should be an easy switch.
Anyone know if the NIK plugs will work w/ Ap3?
They should, no prob, right?
I quickly breezed through the Aperture 3 vids on the Apple website and it looks like this new version does most everything that the NIK plugs do.
Joe
Yeah, up until now I've been using iPhoto as my media library and importing only pics that needed work into Aperture 2. After playing around w/ Aperture 3 it's clearly not just a photo editor anymore, but solid iPhoto replacement. The new brush tool is most welcome, but it's ability to import, and do light editing of, video is the real clincher for me. To me knowledge Lightroom 3 does not support video importing.
Sorry for posting this again; seems like no-one saw it before. I apologize for polluting the thread; I just want to start using the app.
Has anyone been able to get A3 trial to use the A2 library? Mine keeps telling me to choose to create a new library. Even if I double-click on the existing library, it will open A3, then ask for S/N or to continue trial. Then it says we will now create a blank library to use with A3 trial...
Has anyone been able to get A3 trial to use the A2 library? Mine keeps telling me to choose to create a new library. Even if I double-click on the existing library, it will open A3, then ask for S/N or to continue trial. Then it says we will now create a blank library to use with A3 trial...
No. You can't do that.
Aperture 3 (non trial) will immediately upgrade the library into it's own format. This will forever render it useless to Aperture 2. Since Apple doesn't want lawsuits from people who will then be forced to buy Aperture 3, you can't use an A2 library with the trial.
All you really need to do is export a bunch of masters from your A2 library and use the new A3 install to import them. I know that's not ideal and you likely won't want to build a whole new library with that method...but you will at least be able to mess around and feel the software out.
A3 is currently chewing on my 750 gigabyte library. Its going to take overnight on my MacPro. Big, big structure changes.
Once you have a full licensed version of A3, it will happily upgrade the old library for you.
I know they updated some of their editing functions, but the NIK stuff is really, really good. I would doubt that Ap3 completely replaces them.
Anyone know if the NIK plugs will work w/ Ap3?
They should, no prob, right?
The NIK plug-ins appear to work fine in Aperture 3. HOWEVER... the NIK plug-ins are 32-bit. So, if you are running Aperture 3 in 64-bit, when you go to access the NIK plug-ins, Aperture warns you that it needs to switch (relaunch) to 32-bit mode to use the NIK plug-in. Happily, simply clicking a supplied (in the dialog box) "relaunch" button restarts Aperture in 32-bit mode and does so very quickly. It then continues along with loading your image into the NIK plug-in you've selected.
I wrote NIK to ask about 64-bit versions of their plug-ins and they wrote back that, basically, they don't have anything to announce.... that they are still testing Aperture 3.
It will be interesting if someone that knows how to really test such things could compare the speed of Aperture 3 in 64-bit mode vs. 32-bit mode. Some are suggesting the differences would be minor, at best.
My biggest disappointment with Aperture 3 is no mention of support for OpenCL. Even though I have a four-core Mac Pro, I'd appreciate as much speed as possible. If Aperture was tapping unused horsepower in the GPU, so much the better.
Mark
Well it does via the Core Image. your GPU gets used.
Anyone knows if lightroom uses CoreImage or does Adobe reinvent the wheel?
As I understand it, the trial version of A3 will not upgrade A2 libraries. If that's the case, how do you do a licensed upgrade from A2 to A3 without waiting for the box to ship? When you buy the upgrade, do you get a serial number that you can immediately use to activate the A3 trial?
I remember a while back when I bought iWork 09 online, I was given the option to have a serial number provided online. I'm sure you could do that and get a digital download to use immediately (and licensed) which would also get your A2 library upgraded.