Aperture Low Resolution Wallpapers

[holtchristian]

Hey Guys, I'm having a strange issue. When searching through the photo browser in the wallpapers preference pane, my aperture photos appear low resolution, and is quite frustrating. Even when I drag them out from aperture to the desktop they come out 600x800, but when I export master they come out big and nice. I tried looking through exporting settings but have not found a fix. Why can't it just locate the hi res file automatically. Thanks for your help

 

[robbieduncan]

Pretty sure both of those things use the previews that Aperture builds. What resolution are your preview images (check the Aperture preferences).

 

[holtchristian]

Pretty sure both of those things use the previews that Aperture builds. What resolution are your preview images (check the Aperture preferences).

I was hoping this would work, but I upped the preview size to maximum quality. It took awhile to process all the photos, so I was hopeful, but tried to change the wallpaper again but still bad quality. Restarted my computer and tried again, still nothing. What the hell.

 

[Snypod]

I was having the same issue and upping the preview resolution and quality fixed it for me. My desktop wallpapers look perfect now and photos I attach to emails using Mail's built-in photo browser are full resolution and great quality. I was also surprised to find that this increased the resolution and quality of the "optimized" photos that get synced through iTunes to my iPhone.

I'll explain what I did in case it helps. Using Aperture 3 I set the photo preview size to "don't limit" and the quality to "11". Then I went to the "Photos" tab in my library, selected all my photos, right clicked on a photo and chose "Delete Previews". Finally I closed and reopened Aperture, at which point it automatically created new previews for everything.

Even when I drag them out from aperture to the desktop they come out 600x800, but when I export master they come out big and nice. I tried looking through exporting settings but have not found a fix.

Generally speaking, dragging to the desktop is not the way to export photos. Instead, right click on a photo, choose "Export -> Version", then pick an image preset in the drop-down menu. You can alter a preset or create your own by choosing "Edit" at the bottom of the drop-down menu. "Export -> Version" exports your photos with any adjustments you've made to them in a format/resolution/quality of your choosing. "Export -> Master" copies the original image file to your hard drive untouched and in it's original format.