Apple Aperture 3 is here!!!

Mossman6 wrote in post #9875928
Is there a way to disable the EXIF data from showing up whenever you hover you mouse on the image?

Press 'T' or choose View > Metadata Display > Image Tooltips.

Tony-S wrote in post #9876111
Press 'T' or choose View > Metadata Display > Image Tooltips.

You are da man! Thank you.

mckinleypics wrote in post #9875742
this may have been covered somewhere in this thread but it is a long thread. Sorry if this is redundant but I downloaded the trial version and it was so slow I gave up on it. I was at the apple store yesterday and the "genius" aka "annoying nerd" said that my 2 gig ram imac is getting choked. Aperture uses about 1.5 gig, not leaving enough left over for the computer to do its thing (I may have that backwards). Anyway, I purchased 6 G of ram. Any input from you folks on whether this should fix the problem? I think the Apple dude was a little biased.

I run mine on 16GB of RAM in my MacPro 2xQuad Core and it runs well. So it could solve some of your issues, that and the updates. I don't have a slow performance issue, so far, going to test out using referenced photos from a NAS drive, that might slow me down, we'll see.

ChrisMc73 wrote in post #9876547
I run mine on 16GB of RAM in my MacPro 2xQuad Core and it runs well. So it could solve some of your issues, that and the updates. I don't have a slow performance issue, so far, going to test out using referenced photos from a NAS drive, that might slow me down, we'll see.

I imagine it does on a beast like that! 6 G of ram is the most my little iMac can handle.

mckinleypics wrote in post #9876954
I imagine it does on a beast like that! 6 G of ram is the most my little iMac can handle.

Sorry, I missed you said iMac, I wasn't trying to sound boastful, my apologies.
Still 6GB should help, have you installed it yet?

Toy Camera preset on the moon.

Anyone have a good resource for custom, free, presets for Aperture?

dolina wrote in post #9880984
Toy Camera preset on the moon.

Really? Sure you're not just showing off your 800mm lens?

Tony-S wrote in post #9875041
I don't know - you're in an area I don't know much about. You'll just have to give it a try and let us know how that goes (in case others want to replicate your setup).

One thing that is a wee bit slow, with the referenced photos on my NAS is the loading of the histogram; in Aperture 3 and Lightroom 3 both. Need to see what managed files do speed wise for loading the histogram...maybe its that way on all photos? I'm sure it doesn't help being 25MB RAW files.

is there any real benefit to running in 64 bit vs 32 bit, is 32 faster or is 64 faster?

I'm working with a Mac Mini 2.53 w/ 4gb RAM, it runs fine so far w/ 14k images, but would 32 bit run any faster?

I've not seen any benchmarks comparing Ap3 in the two modes, but if there's any gain with 64-bit I suspect it would be minimal.

Tony-S wrote in post #9882394
I've not seen any benchmarks comparing Ap3 in the two modes, but if there's any gain with 64-bit I suspect it would be minimal.

Yeah. Isn't Snow Leopard 64 bit, in theory 64 bit is supposed to be faster than 32 bit just based on the technology involved, but then again it does matter on if the software uses it. I know Apple wrote Aperture 3 with a 64 bit mode and 32 bit mode, so you'd think there would be some gain in 64 bit mode right? I'll have to research this and see what I can dig up.

I just found a bug in Aperture 3.0.2. If someone could confirm on their end, I'd appreciate it.

1) Select any color image
2) Select Print Image
3) Select "More Options" in the print dialog (if it isn't already active)
4) Adjust the BRIGHTNESS slider in the print dialog

For me, any change in the Brightness slider in the print dialog results in the on-screen preview of the image changing to black and white. I haven't actually tried to print an image (yet), but the preview of it changes to black & white. I have to turn off the adjustments for that module to bring back color to the preview.

This did not happen with 3.0 or 3.0.1.

Anyone else?

Mark

Confirmed it here.

LarkM wrote in post #9884467
Confirmed it here.

Thanks for the confirmation! FWIW, I have already reported this to the Aperture Team.

Mark