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You should consider Aperture to be a replacement for iPhoto. When you switch to Aperture, you will import your iPhoto DB of photos into Aperture and work with your photos exclusively in Aperture. The features that you are used to in iPhoto will be available in Aperture.
Aperture still have a 30-day free trial available from Apple.
What you can do is make ...
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Instead of clicking on the "Confirm Faces" button, simply select all the photos that match (using shift-click or any other method) and then drag them to the space above the grey bar that says "John may also be in the photos below". This has the affect of bulk confirming your selection as being John.
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I'm currently making the transition from Lightroom over to Aperture. You are right in that Aperture is more like Lightroom than Photoshop. Its primary use is as a digital library for managing your photos, and videos. Much like iPhoto.
Lightroom and Aperture both have good editing functionality and both have the ability to use plugins for expanding the ...
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I use both
Aperture to store and manage my hobby photography and any pro work I do
iPhoto to hold my family and friends snapshots (and manage my personal flickr, facebook and web gallery sites).
If I use the pro camera for any personal stuff, I process in Aperture, copy the final selections to iPhoto and remove them from Aperture.
For me, its best to ...
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Using Aperture/Lightroom require a different way of thinking to Photoshop.
Personally I use Lightroom as it is more like the traditional darkroom process. It's also quicker for getting lots of images out the door, which works well with my style of photography (motorsport), the editing functions aren't as deep, but they are pretty much the same as Adobe ...
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Put the library file in a folder that is accessible to other computers and set permissions so that it can be accessed/edited by other users. You also need to be certain that only one person is editing the file at any given time – the software isn't designed as a shared database and I don't know what, if any, protections it provides against this scenario.
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Given your 12,000 images are 2.61 GB in total, they're about 228 kB each — is this right? and is this typical of your entire 280 GB of photos?
By default, Aperture makes previews and thumbnails to speed things up, based on the assumption that your images are quite large (e.g. 2+ MB) and loading + displaying them will take a long time.
For low resolution ...
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In addition to Henry’s information, here’s a picture to make it more clear:
The “hidden Toolbar”
Don’t miss The Palette, it contains interesting options for these brushes:
UPDATE If you want the “Hidden Toolbar” to remain ‘pinned’ while working in full screen, simply touch this…switch onto the lock position:
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Some options:
Make a Media Browser with Automator - takes about 30 seconds - and you can invoke it in many ways - including with a contextual menu its,
Install an app like http://www.karelia.com/imedia/ which will do the same with some extra bells and whistles.
That said, if you use an app like Aperture or iPhoto to manage your photos then they are the ...
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The approach we have used is a simple shared folder containing an Aperture library. I can report that this solution is ok but fragile -- permissions on the shared folder need to be fixed every so often.
Dropbox would certainly work in your case, but I suspect that you'll need substantial storage space, which would be rather expensive. If cost weren't ...
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Normally Photo Stream should sync across devices within seconds, so long as the device that took the photo is on WiFi. However, I've also run into cases where Aperture's PhotoStream folder lags in showing recent images. When this happens I've been able to fix the issue by disabling and then re-enabling Photo Stream in Aperture's settings. It will re-sync ...
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Automatic Import: Imports any pictures received via Photo Stream into the main Aperture library. A copy will be created for this which remains even after the 1000th picture has been added to the stream and which can be edited
For this to work Aperture has to be open/running. If the 1000 picture threshold is reached while Aperture is not running, pictures ...
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There are no perfect solutions to the this. To maintain the full quality of the images in Aperture, your best bet is going to be exporting the Master files from Aperture, then re-importing them into iPhoto.
If you've done extensive edits to your images, you will also want to export versions of those files in the highest quality possible, and import those ...
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You can do a batch adjustment of time and date, in Aperture under Metadata > Adjust Time and Date. From there you can specify an increment (one year back in your case) and all of th dates will be adjusted relatively. More information from the Aperture manual is here.
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1) Open Image Capture from the Spotlight (You can also find it in the Applications folder)
2) Connect your iPad
3) You should see your device listed under devices column on the left. Select it.
4) In the bottom left, choose "No Application" under the option for choosing which application opens when this device is connected.
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Depending on how your Aperture library is set up, I think it will do this automatically.
If you use a referenced library (see the Aperture manual for more information on managed vs referenced), Aperture won't store the hi-res masters in its own library - it will leave the file management up to you. It does, however, keep a low-res preview of the image in ...
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I you can just go to the view Menu. And toggle the 'Show Original Image'
This will stick a label on the image so you know you are seeing an Original rather than a Preview.
The setting is global by the looks of it. And works in the compare mode.
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Open Terminal.app, type "cd " (Take care of the space after the cd) and drag your Aperture library in that window, then hit return. Now type
xattr -d com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem "iPod Photo Cache"
xattr -d com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem "Thumbnails"
Hit return again and do a backup.
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You will want to drag the following to trash and then quit and re-launch the Mac App Store:
/Library/Application Support/ProApps/Aperture System ID
/Applications/Aperture.app
If restarting the app store does not work, a reboot should clear any remnants of the older licensed Aperture product and let you install. Apple support is also very helpful if you ...
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Hello have you looked at:
cocoaslideshow or gofoto
You should be able to do that, alternatively there are other ways to host your iamges in your own Mac Mini Server or any other server using a blog or a CMS such as WordPress or Joomla with a photo/image gallery module that can just point to your photo directory and load the directory straight into the ...
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I see Aperture/Lightroom as pro versions of Lightroom, they do the same things. If you are happy with the iPhoto way of working, but want to do edits in more detail, I would suggest Photoshop Elements rather than Aperture.
FWIW I occasionally go from Lightroom to iPhoto, but only if I want to do a photobook.
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Automatic Upload:
Sends any photo added into your Aperture catalog into your overall Photo Stream.
Automatic Import:
When new photos are added into your overall Photo Stream Aperture will import them into your catalog and if there's facial recognition or geolocation information use that to filter and organize.
I will admit I've not tried it, but ...
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By default, there is not any magic when importing photos to aperture.
Probably at that point, what it might be confusing is that Aperture has transformed your iPhoto albums to folders/projects, which are not what you exactly want.
My advise would be to create one project, move all your images there, delete all other projects/folders, and then create new ...
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Well, two trips to the genius bar couldn't solve it ("you need to start a new library from scratch and retag your 15,000 photos" - WHAT?!?!), but I dug around and experimented and finally came up with the answer:
iTunes won't sync pictures without up-to-date previews; so, if they stop auto-generating for some reason, you have to force it to update previews ...
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You may have video files disabled in the import options.
Open Aperture and click Import
Click Import Settings on the right, and make sure File Types is checked in the list to show the File Types options.
Under the File Types options, make sure Exclude videos is not checked.
If these options are set properly, connect the phone, locate the video files in ...
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Aperture 3.2.2 imports video and stills by default for me from my iPhone with iOS 5.0.1. Are you perhaps using older software or different hardware?
The only time I've seen Aperture not show items for import is when you take more photos / videos after the import window is open and the new captures will not show until you disconnect and reconnect the USB 30 ...
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If a face is already duplicated (i.e., there're two faces of the same person), you can pick up (from the faces cockboard page) the 2nd face and drop into the 1st. Aperture or iPhoto will merge these 2 faces into 1.
If a face isn't already duplicated and you're trying to prevent duplication, prior to 10.7 Lion, you set the email address of the entry in ...
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To keep the answer general enough for anyone - I'll add some precautionary steps that you can ignore as appropriate.
You might want to set up a vault
to back things up as they are or
kick off a backup before trying to
repair the database.
The sure thing is to recover from a backup before the database got corrupt. The ratings are stored in files separate ...
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kiamlaluno answered already but as bmike commented, there are several possibilities when it comes to location of your masters.
As it seems you're starting with Aperture, here is a good link to understand the basics of file management in Aperture.
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Another way of confirming (or rejecting) faces in bulk is to drag (option) select over the faces you want to confirm (or reject). You can even mix in the same drag by pressing or releasing the option key to change between confirm or reject.
Faces workflow has other tricks too (but nothing that makes its workflow smooth as one might expect in a pro app).
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