Is there a way to use the pictures in Aperture as "desktops" as there is in iPhoto? My iPhoto app got corrupted. Fortunately all the photo's on a a backup disc, but I have started using Aperture. Would appreciate any comments on your experience in setting the desktop picture with Aperture.
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When I navigate there... I have to wait a bit for Aperture to show as one of the choices. I immediately get Apple, Folders, iPhoto... and then after about 20 seconds, I get Aperture. I think it is because it is loading the images. I have about 51,000 in my Aperture library.
/Jim
When you are in System Prefs > Desktop and Screensaver > Desktop, click on the + sign on the left and select Aperture.
Well, it's not working that way for me. Aperture is indeed installed, and I do get the iPhoto folders while the sign for the loading (spinning disc) is going. After that the spinning stops and I still don't see Aperture there. I have many more folders in iPhoto than in Aperture. Further, I have tried and I think iPhoto is deleted from the iMac although it still is on the Time Machine backup. Why would I still be getting the iPhoto images. Can't figure this out, and still can't find a way to Aperture into Desktops! Any more suggestions as to what I am doing wrong. Thanks.
Where is your Aperture library installed?
If everything's working (at least in Lion) it should show faces, places, albums, projects, events...pretty much everything.
Rob
If everything's working (at least in Lion) it should show faces, places, albums, projects, events...pretty much everything.
Rob
The Aperture user manual states the following:-
Integration with Mac OS X Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences
Like images in iPhoto libraries, images in Aperture libraries can be used for your screen
saver and desktop picture, through the same mechanism the media browser uses.
In other words, set up Desktop images via Sytem Preferences as stated in my earlier post.
John, I appreciate you sticking with me but I can only say what I said in my last post. "It ain't there"! I do go to Systems>Desktop/Screen Saver and on the L side there is Apple with subsets of Desktop picture, Nature, Plants etc. Below that is iPhoto with subsets of Events' Photos, Faces, Places plus all my folders from iPhoto. Below that is Folders with one subset called Pictures and opening that there are 10-20 folders within and one of them is "Aperture Library. aplibrary" and if I click on this it opens Aperture. So I am right back to the question of how to set pictures from Aperture as a desktop photo. Below the section on the L in Desktop/Screen Savers there is a + and - button. Using the + button opens the Applications folder but in that the Aperture file is "greyed" out and can't be added. I hope this is clear.
Aperture is in my Applications. I see your picture and as I described in my note the left side of my "Desktop" looks exactly like yours EXCEPT Aperture does not appear below iPhoto. That is my problem. I hear what you are saying but it isn't there! It does no good to insist it should be there when it isn't and how to get it there is what I need a solution for. Any suggestions?