Apple Aperture, the photo management software, regarded as a competitor to Adobe Photoshop LightRoom

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Can I work with iPad iPhoto Journals from my desktop Mac?

iPad iPhoto journals are great... If my photos live primarily on my iPad. In my case though, they are on my iPad when I am traveling but end up on my Mac at home for long term storage. So if I make a ...
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Publish an Aperture smart album to Facebook

I can easily create a smart album with the 5-star rated images on a certain date. I would like to share those with a Facebook photo album but the share command is greyed out when I have a smart album ...
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Write a comment or description for an image in Aperture

I have a ton of new pictures in Aperture (from a vacation.) I am trying to figure out the most productive way for me to crank through them and add a comment or new title. What I have seen calls up a ...
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How to export all projects from Aperture?

I would like to export all of the projects from Aperture to a directory in my computer. Since I have many projects (100+), I don't want to export them one by one. Is there a way to batch export them ...
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Google Earth coordinates and Aperture place

I'd like to geo-tag some already-imported photos in Aperture. To get the correct location, I'm using Google Earth. However, when I copy/paste the coordinates into Aperture Places, the maps shows a ...
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iPhoto '09 referenced library - modified files are saved locally?

I've been trying to organise my photos better on a NAS (QNAP) that is exposed as an AFP share. I've copied all the JPEGs into an organised structure on the NAS volume manually. I'd like the files on ...
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organize pictures into destination folders automatically based on date

I have a ~50000 pictures: located in multiple folders not organized, there are duplicates source contains videos, but I need only pictures I would like to organize all of them into subfolders ...
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Aperture 3 seems to have completely lost all of my ratings. What can I do to recover them?

I noticed the other day that none of the ratings I've made in Aperture are showing up anymore. Firstly, I'm wondering how that could have happened? I've done a number of things lately like relocate ...
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Problem importing iPhoto library in Aperture

I just bought a new mbp and I copied the iPhoto '10 library of my old iMac to the Pictures folder of my mpb. Then I opened iPhoto '11, it said that it has to update the library. To that point it was ...
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Zoom in/out keyboard shortcuts for Swedish keyboard?

I could not get the keyboard shortcuts for zoom in/out in Aperture 3 on my Swedish Keyboard. According to the documentation it should be Command+= and Command+- I have searched the Internet, but it ...
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Aperture: Importing images into subfolders

It seems Aperture does not (or no longer?) allow importing images into subfolders of an image folder on disk. Here's what I'm trying to do: I have a set of images on an SD card. Clicking "Import" ...
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Aperture: Import content of smart folder

Is there any way to import the content of Smart Folder into Aperture library? Or may be choose any criteria during importing, like file kind, date etc. BTW: Can I see a size of all checked files? ...
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Use a mac Mini server to host Aperture Library

I got two iMac and one Mac Mini server, last year I moved my Library to the Mac Mini, and change the path on Aperture (3.4.4) to use that library instead of using my local one. It works like a ...
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Downgrading Aperture 3.4.3 library to 3.0

Is there a way to open an Aperture 3.4.3 library in Aperture 3.0?
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How can I designate which two displays Aperture will use on a mac with three or more displays?

I have three displays: Primary: CRT 1280 x 1024 (5:4 landscape) Secondary: LCD 1200 x 1900 (10:16 portrait) Tertiary: LCD 1920 x 1200 (16:10 landscape) The displays work fine. No issues ...
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Aperture 3 Open open first aid options for external library

I have a huge Aperture 3 library that will not open Verify that you have iPhoto 9.4 or later. Then open the library in iPhoto to upgrade it.. It is not set as my default Aperture library, so every ...
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Aperture and Rosetta problem

I've had to buy an older Intel Core Duo Macbook to replace a stolen one. I've installed Aperture 2.1 from an old disc. It won't open, I get a message saying something like: "You can't use this version ...
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How to write (manually added) GPS coordinates to original raw files in Aperture?

I'm using Aperture to add GPS coordinates to photos I've taken. The original stills are in craw2 and movies are in mov file format. I've noticed when I export originals that the photos didn't retain ...
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Missing Aperture project in iTunes when syncing to iPad/iPhone

When I want to sync my pictures from Aperture to my iPhone and iPad with iTunes, all my recent project and albums are missing. It is the same situation when I want to see my most recent picture on my ...
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Exporting aperture projects as simple folders on a USB drive

This seems to be a reasonable task but I can't find a way to do it with Aperture. I have all my library on my Mac internal hard drive and I just want to export some projects onto a USB drive (to be ...
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Shared Photostream pictures are deleted when I delete the original

I see very strange behavior when using shared photo stream. Just deleted photos from iPhone library (Camera Roll) and the pictures I had saved to a shared photo stream were deleted as well. Do ...
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Aperture library won't sync through iPhoto to an iPad

I used to work on Aperture in an old computer. Then, I got a new Retina MBP, and decided to just stick with iPhoto and test it out. Since now iPhoto could just natively open my old Aperture library, ...
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How to publish the Places map from Aperture with geotagged pictures?

So I have a set of pictures taken along the way of a road trip. They were taken with an iPhone so they're geotagged but we could be dealing with manually geotagged pics, doesn't matter. I want to ...
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Why is Aperture showing thousands of Rejected, but there are only 3 there?

My Aperture is showing 2.5k Rejected photos (count), but when I view the album, there are only 3 there. I tried rebuilding the database. I also tried switching and viewing the library in iPhoto, ...
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Apple Aperture - Batch edit

I'm just editing a time lapse video I shot and have to change the exposure on about 1000 files. Is there a was in Apple Aperture to batch edit files?
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What workflows help when using Photo Stream to import from iOS to Aperture?

When I take a picture on my iPhone, the photo is going to PhotoStream and to Camera Roll. My way of importing the pictures to my Mac was just to go in the PhotoStream folder of Aperture, and copy the ...
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When backing up to an Aperture vault, says I have referenced files. When I use locate referenced files, it shows none. Why?

I am running Aperture version 3.3.1 on OSX 10.7.4 on a MBP Retina. When I try to update one of my vaults, it gives me a warning that the "n" number of images imported by reference will not be a part ...
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ZEVO ZFS and Aperture

I'ld like to use ZEVO (ZFS) on my Storage-Device. There shall the Aperture-Library be stored. Are there any issues using an Aperture - Library on ZFS formatted device. Thanks allot
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When syncing photos to iPhone or iPad through iTunes from Aperture, it syncs the wrong (original) versions. Why?

I have an album, let's call it "Europe Trip 2011" within which, in Aperture, I have done at least some degree of editing to all of its pictures (exposure, saturation, curves, etc). As we all know, ...
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Slideshow display in Aperture

Having had a certain amount of frustration with the iphoto-11 slide show dept, I decided to get Aperture and see if the grass was greener on the other side. I imported the whole shebang, and my slide ...

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