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

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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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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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Why does Aperture keep forgetting my preference to enable Photo Stream?

I enabled Photo Stream as soon as the feature was available in Aperture 3.2.2, yet sometimes I have to remind the app that I want Photo Stream enabled. I confirm that I want to enable Photo Stream ...
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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: 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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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 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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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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Aperture: use iptc tags for face recognition

I have about 10'000 pictures with iptc tags. Aperture shows this tags after the pictures have been imported. Most of the tags are person names. Is there a way to use this tags to assist face ...
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Aperture previews not showing up using shared aperture library

My wife and I both have our own user profiles on a shared MBP, I have also set up Aperture to look at a library within the shared user folder and we both have full read/write permissions. The problem ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...