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Two Bugs and Work Arounds
I’m finding that Aperture 2 gives a slightly different colorcast to many of my images if I convert them to the 2.0 decode. Often I want to recreate the look they originally had and so I’ve frequently been reaching for the Tint White Balance slider. When I first click the slider, no matter how carefully I try to just click to activate it, I find that the color dramatically changes in the image as if I had made a significant adjustment to the slider. It threw me off for awhile. Then I discovered that if I click the White Balance reset arrow, not only does the White Balance revert back to the default, but the next time I click either the Tint or Temp sliders, they behave as expected!
The same thing happens when I try to adjust White Balance on any image in Aperture 2 whether or not they were originally in v 1.5.6 or are new to version 2.0. It’s an easy work around so that you can make the precise change that you need.
I’ve also experienced a bug which caused Aperture to suddenly label my images as “Unsupported Image Format” after I’ve been working in Aperture for awhile and made extensive edits. In reality the file is not corrupted but you need to relaunch Aperture to get it to behave. I'm hoping the new v2.01 release fixed that bug but I haven’t had time to test it extensively enough to know for sure.
I also want to call your attention to Part One of an article that I wrote about using the Aperture 2.0 adjustment tools. It's posted here in the Articles section, and Part Two will be coming next week. Enjoy! And if you have any tips you'd like to share with me about using the adjustment tools, feel free!
Comments (10)
Probably any image changed from the 1.1 to 2.0 raw decode will look different. If you are happy with the way they looked before, then I would just leave your previous photos as 1.1 decodes.
Also, the Tint slider does have a bug. Just clicking on it drastically changes the color temperature of the image without moving the Temperature slider! I double-click the Temp slider to reset it. After that, Temp and Tint work fine.
i notice images that are moved from 1.5.6 to 2.x are dramatically different if you've used the Levels adjustment. Since Levels got pushed down the brick hierarchy, it makes sense that adjustments made with levels would appear differently, since their now technically out of sequence, for how the image was originally adjusted.
not a problem unless you unwittingly convert thousands of images and need to go back and redo the adjustments on each one. ouch.
I discovered this morning that the control-V, that brings up the vignette, also brings up the inspector (which I like to keep hidden).
I usually use the floating HUD to do the adjustments.
Is this just me? Or have others discovered this too?
ctrl+v adds the vignette tool but does not reveal the inspector panel for me. Does this happen routinely for you?
Hi Ellen,
about your article (adjustment tools):
Maybe you should mention that the Moiré correction does a great job at removing the cyan/red or blue/yellow fringe which can appear when you photograph on light baggrund (could be a branch on the sky).
And it does not blur the picture at all.
IMO, nothing else can achieve the same correction in Aperture.
I have a video on my site showing clearly the effect.
Always a pleasure to read you,
Francois
Thanks Francois, that's an excellent point! I'll check out your video when I get home (I'm in the arctic Circle right now with limited internet.)
I am having trouble with Aperture two also.
I have lost images. I guess I am not sure it is aperture, but I look at the images on my card in the 1Ds Mark3 then when I put it in my card reader and go to import in aperture there is just the space for the images. And then if I try to look at them on my camera again there is just a question mark. Any thoughts?
Adam, what you are describing sounds like a corruption on the card itself. When the card's directory becomes corrupt - which can happen if the power to the card was disrupted while the card was reading or writing - scenarios such as what you are describing can result. CF cards also become corrupt for other reasons which are sometimes never discovered. I recommend trying a card recovery program such as Photorescue (www.datarescue.com ) What you are experiencing isn't an Aperture 2.0 issue but something that's been an issue for a long time now with memory cards.
Ellen
Thanks. I am going to get some new cards today
.I had another question that is probably an aperture prob. When I shoot in the monochrome mode on the 1Ds Mark 3 when imported it turns it into color for some reason. It is really weird. Any thoughts. Sounds like the adjustment tools problem but when I push to reset it does not do anything.
Adam, when you shoot in raw format some camera settings are not applied until the actual conversion. If you were shooting in JPEG, you'd see the image as monochrome because all camera settings are "baked into" the file. But the beauty of raw is that you have all the data at your fingertips. That way you can fine tune and tweak your choices after the fact. So no, that's not an Aperture problem either - that's the way raw files work!
Ellen