Rich Creamery Goodness

Moments ago, Apple dropped the Aperture 3.0.1 update for it’s newly released Aperture 3. Use Software Update to find and install.

According to the release notes, 3.0.1 includes:

This update improves overall stability and addresses a number of issues in Aperture 3, including:

• Upgrading libraries from earlier versions of Aperture
• Importing libraries from iPhoto
• Importing photos directly from a camera
• Memory usage when processing heavily-retouched photos
• Face recognition processing
• Adding undetected faces using the Add Missing Face button
• Printing pages containing multiple images
• Printing photos and contact sheets with borders and metadata
• Editing photos using an external editor
• Display of images with Definition and Straighten adjustments applied
• Zooming photos in the Viewer and in the Loupe using keyboard shortcuts
• Accessing Aperture libraries on a network volume
• Selecting and moving pins on the Places map
• Adding and editing custom locations using the Manage My Places window
• Switching between masters when working with RAW+JPEG pairs.

The update is recommended for all users of Aperture 3.

For detailed information on this update, please visit this website:http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2518

Enjoy.

Aperture 3 came out today and of course I was eager to give it a go. I’ve been playing with it most of the day, and really like its speed and new features. I did happen upon a little bug it seems that frustrated me for quite a while until I figured out what was going on. This definitely needs to be fixed. This is important if you round trip from Aperture 3 to Photoshop and back.

The issue arises is what Aperture displays when returning from Photoshop (and perhaps any external editor). Note, that this issue could just be with my system, but I’ve been using APerture 2 for a long time with this workflow and never had an issue.

The test is simple. Select a Master image and right click -> Edit with Photoshop. Make edits in Photoshop. Close image, saving (removing layers – I am using 16-bit TIFF). Back in Aperture you will now have a copy of the image and it SHOULD update to show your Photoshop edits. In the view that you left Aperture in, it seems, the new image DOES NOT get updated, and appears just as the one you started with. If you switch views however (V-key or buttons at top) the other views are correct and show the edited image. I couldn’t get the edit image to show correctly in the view that I originally jumped to Photoshop from unless I quit and restarted Aperture.

A pain in the butt, but at least my edits are sticking.

Here are some screen grabs of the problem:

Here you can see in Split View, the original NEF is selected and displays in the viewer window. The round-tripped image has a big “X” in the preview.

Arrowing to the right switches the view to the round-tripped image. All is well.

Now arrow back to original image and press “V” to switch to Viewer mode.

Here you can see the original NEF as expected. It’s small, but you can verify in the filename on the left.

Now arrow right to the next image, the round-tripped image:

Again, small. But you can see that this is the TIFF that SHOULD have the “X” through it.

Now I quit and restart Aperture:

Voila! Aperture updates the view.

I’m sure there will be a fix for this, but until then, beware.

Thanks to Flickr user Eng-Shien I realized shortly after Flash Trigger Cheat Sheet cleared the store that an old bug cropped up in the release version. Really really stupid mistake on my part. I guess I was excited to get it done and missed it in QC. Nonetheless, I fixed it in about 20 seconds and then had to wait another 10 days or so for Apple to clear the update.

Nonetheless, it’s all good now and you shold update your app if you are using this.

Sorry for the error.

iTunes link:

Well, after the elation of getting my first app in the app store yesterday, I have learned how humbling it can be to be an idiot. One of the new users of my app pointed out that the state of the Modeling Lamp Tracking switch for the receiver is backwards. Doh!

No excuse except those of an excited noob developer who missed it in QC. Looking back through my builds, I did have it right once, but in tidying up the code and interface for release I dropped the ball.

Version 1.0.1 of Flash Trigger Cheat Sheet has been pushed to the App Store and hopefully it won’t take long before users see the update.

Sorry.

::Bangs head against wall::

Well, after first waiting for RadioPopper (and giving up) and then waiting for Apple’s approval, my Flash Trigger Cheat Sheet is available in the iTunes App Store! I’m still waiting for propagation to search and the general index, but it can be found here (iTunes link) if you are interested.