Aperture 3 is here

Pupator

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB957?mco=MTY5NjUxNjY

ojn

Pupator wrote:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB957?mco=MTY5NjUxNjY

Chase Jarvis has a quick note about it too: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/02/apple-aperture-30-awesomeness.html

Looks good on paper, haven't seen it in action yet. It seems to have the features that I have been considering moving over to lightroom for. I am definitely ordering the upgrade.

W.W. Webster

Pupator wrote:

Aperture 3 is here

Bring it on!

Hopefully, this will shake up Adobe to get Lightroom 3 off the ropes and show us the finished product, not just a 'beta' feature subset.

Kevin Kramer

I'm mainly a Lightroom User..

But I looked at all of the videos on the site... the features... and i started to drool.. I just don't know yet. I am trying out the 30 day free trial... I might "switch"

-kev

Internaut

Think I'll have to upgrade
With the new raw formats announced, the one body I have that wasn't supported will now be more useful for me. Finally, I have motivation to step up to Snow Leopard.

tjstrider

Nik
I just started using Nik Color Efx 3.1 for photoshop and really like it for many of the workflow reasons that they just added.

I like the brushing on for quick fixes to files that I don't want to pull into CS4

dlplumer

Ordered my upgrade. Can't wait. :ivar :ivar :ivar

Wachel

Downloading the free trial right now and my order for the upgrade is already in!

bow

Mac Write

When will Smugmug have an "official" plug-in for the "Share" Menu? Yes I know about the Smugmug export for Aperture 2.

michswiss

I'll definitely be upgrading as soon as I can pick a copy up in a store. It will be interesting to see how quickly I begin to use some of the more sophisticated image management and manipulation features. Faces will be handy for my family pics, but I can't wait until it tries to figure out all my street images.

Wachel

Faces is a great tool! I played with it for about 2 hours last night and I must say that I already think Aperture 3 blows away 2. Good stuff.

Rhuarc

Wachel wrote:

Faces is a great tool! I played with it for about 2 hours last night and I must say that I already think Aperture 3 blows away 2. Good stuff.

This is something I would really like for Lightroom to get. Right now I'm trying to figure out a way to have Picases go through and find faces in all my DNG files. Then I have to use a tool that writes those names from Picasa into the IPTC Keywords so that I can import them into Lightroom. Not the most elegant way to do this.

MarkR

I've been playing with the 30 day trial -- very impressive! They've closed the gap with LR and even surpassed it in many ways.

Now the question is, how will the Lightroom 3 beta change in response?

dlplumer

Selective, non-destructive brushes with edge detection is the best part of the upgrade imo. I love it

Snowgirl

dlplumer wrote:

Selective, non-destructive brushes with edge detection is the best part of the upgrade imo. I love it

Stop! You're tormenting me!

:cryMy copy hasn't arrived yet.

BTW, is there an upload plugin for SmugMug?

ojn

I got my copy on Friday, and started upgrading on Saturday morning. I also updated the machine that had it to Snow Leopard while I was at it.

I've had some issues. If you look at the Aperture support forums at Apple, you can see that I am not alone.

Essentially what's happening is that some of the preview processing goes completely haywire, starting to consume all memory on the machine (and given that MacOS just lets the swap space grow, it will keep going and going and going).

My workaround so far has been to start without background processes starting, then update previews in one library at a time until I hit the one that caused the problem. I then moved that aside in my Pictures folder, and continued with the rest. So far that has let me keep things going.

What I've seen of it looks great though, I like the brushes. I do miss seeing the overlay that you could do in old dodge & burn, but it's possible that you can bring it up (I just didn't see where yet).

BTW, is there an upload plugin for SmugMug?

There's one for Aperture 2, I think it works with Aperture 3 as well as long as you run in 32-bit mode. I have not yet tested it due to the other issues.

dlplumer

Snowgirl wrote:

Stop! You're tormenting me!

:cryMy copy hasn't arrived yet.

BTW, is there an upload plugin for SmugMug?

If you have one now, it will automatically show up in App 3. If not, you can download it. Aperture 3 is 64 bits, but the plugins are 32bits, and so Aperture automatically changes to a 32 bit version when you use a 32 bit plugin. I imagine that the developers will soon be generating 64 bit plugins.

dlplumer

ojn wrote:

I got my copy on Friday, and started upgrading on Saturday morning. I also updated the machine that had it to Snow Leopard while I was at it.

I've had some issues. If you look at the Aperture support forums at Apple, you can see that I am not alone.

Essentially what's happening is that some of the preview processing goes completely haywire, starting to consume all memory on the machine (and given that MacOS just lets the swap space grow, it will keep going and going and going).

My workaround so far has been to start without background processes starting, then update previews in one library at a time until I hit the one that caused the problem. I then moved that aside in my Pictures folder, and continued with the rest. So far that has let me keep things going.

What I've seen of it looks great though, I like the brushes. I do miss seeing the overlay that you could do in old dodge & burn, but it's possible that you can bring it up (I just didn't see where yet).



There's one for Aperture 2, I think it works with Aperture 3 as well as long as you run in 32-bit mode. I have not yet tested it due to the other issues.

Yes, I had this problem and fixed it.

Basically you need to re-process old photos from Aperture 2, one at a time, as you need them (very easy to do). Also, disable previews, and again do them as needed.

The overlay IS available for all selective brushing.

Snowgirl

It has arrived
Happiness is Version 3. I'm just playing right now but Daniel, you are right, the brushes are brilliant. Faces and Places are fun tools, but the BRUSHES. Yehaw! I can see only using PS for really detailed editing, specialty jobs or things like collages. I think I'm in love.:ivarclap

rsirota

dlplumer wrote:

If you have one now, it will automatically show up in App 3. If not, you can download it. Aperture 3 is 64 bits, but the plugins are 32bits, and so Aperture automatically changes to a 32 bit version when you use a 32 bit plugin. I imagine that the developers will soon be generating 64 bit plugins.

I had a thread on the plug in here http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=159043&highlight=aperture+export and there is a 64 bit version available...

Check out 3rd entry for link....

Rob

dixonduke

Aperture 3 seems to only allow me to use my internal HD for is working library, and am wanting to set my working library to my external HD. Anyone else having trouble setting this up?

Preferences -> Change -> Pick folder location on External drive, and get error message as an unsupported system..

BinaryFx

dixonduke wrote:

Preferences -> Change -> Pick folder location on External drive, and get error message as an unsupported system..

What is the drive formatted as, Mac OS Extended, Fat32, NTFS etc? Could this be part of the issue?


Regards,

Stephen Marsh

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/
http://prepression.blogspot.com/

dixonduke

BinaryFx wrote:

What is the drive formatted as, Mac OS Extended, Fat32, NTFS etc? Could this be part of the issue?


Regards,

Stephen Marsh

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/
http://prepression.blogspot.com/

Hmmmmm.......... grrrrrr........

CatOne

dixonduke wrote:

Hmmmmm.......... grrrrrr........

No good, you can't use a FAT32 formatted drive to host an Aperture library.

If you're not sharing that drive with Windows systems as well, you should absolute reformat it as HFS+. If you are… you'll have some choices to make.

pathfinder

Some folks are not entirely pleased with Aperture 3 recently - http://www.cultofmac.com/aperture-3-users-reporting-serious-memory-leak-issues/30517

This might be worth exploring before jumping into the new deep end of the pool...

michswiss

pathfinder wrote:

Some folks are not entirely pleased with Aperture 3 recently - http://www.cultofmac.com/aperture-3-users-reporting-serious-memory-leak-issues/30517

This might be worth exploring before jumping into the new deep end of the pool...

I have the memory leak problem. Very vexing converting my primary library and it still persists with large background processing jobs. I use Activity Monitor to keep an eye on memory usage and quit AP3 before the system starts thrashing. Definitely looking forward to a fix showing up soon.

But I wouldn't conflate the leak with performance. Once I nursed the system through the conversion, the overall performance is definitely better. I also won't be turning on Faces any time soon, not only for the memory leak issue but also to prevent having to wade through massive numbers of people that I simply won't know. I need to split my primary library into themes first.

MarkR

pathfinder wrote:

Some folks are not entirely pleased with Aperture 3 recently - http://www.cultofmac.com/aperture-3-users-reporting-serious-memory-leak-issues/30517

This might be worth exploring before jumping into the new deep end of the pool...

New bug update: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1006

dlplumer

3.01 update is great. Selective brushes fixed (no memory leak; very stable) :ivar :ivar

Apple ROCKS

W.W. Webster

dlplumer wrote:

3.01 update is great.

That's good. Early consensus across the web is that at least some of the more serious issues have been addressed with no apparent collateral damage.

Now the conversation may be able to focus on A3 features and functions.

bfjr

I can't update.
does it have something to do with trial use?

MarkR

bfjr wrote:

I can't update.
does it have something to do with trial use?

See if this thread from apple's website helps you out: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2348461&tstart=0

Specifically, look for the comment about dumping a pref. file.