Apple Aperture 3.3 - Has anyone tried?

[ahab1372]

Has anyone tried the new Aperture 3.3 already?
I haven't found reports of major issues on the interweb, any reports here in this community?

Thanks,
Arnt

[ahab1372]

I just noticed that the update requires Mac OS X 10.7.4 I won't upgrade this computer to Lion (too old), so the new Aperture version will have to wait until I buy new hardware

[thekingb]

I installed it yesterday. Some of the interface's look and feel changed. And there are a a few different options, like a nice button to "revert to original" for any edited photo. I haven't run into any issues yet.

[Keith B]

I haven't found any issues. I like the Skin Tone White Balance function...a lot. You still can't ad multiple white balances (like you can color adj.) but at least in skin you can brush in or away.

They tout the Shadow/Highlights works better but I don't see it. It just has less sliders and less control over the effect. It seemed to be a "professional" feature before but now it feels like a iPhoto setting.

Revert to Original has always been there it just wan't a button. It had a little icon below the histogram on the Adjustment Inspector. But that area now has the all important iPhoto-ish Auto Enhance button.

I'm a long time Mac guy but I'm getting a little uneasy with Apple's direction lately. They are doing the same thing to Aperture they did to Final Cut. I can live with that but the OS is really getting to me. Lion is really buggy and I don't think the average user notices the issues as much as the pro user so they don't care to fix them. I think this is why Mt. Lion is only $20, they know Lion was crap. Kind of the same way Leopard was a rushed piece of crap and Snow Leopard was more the finished product.

[ahab1372]

I haven't found any issues. I like the Skin Tone White Balance function...a lot. You still can't ad multiple white balances (like you can color adj.) but at least in skin you can brush in or a way.

They tout the Shadow/Highlights works better but I don't see it. It just has less sliders and less control over the effect. It seemed to be "professional" feature before now it feels like a iPhoto setting.

I think you can toggle between simple view/advanced view in the previous version. Can you still bring that up? Otherwise there is always curves ...

Revert to Original has always been there it just wan't a button. It had a little icon below the histogram on the Adjustment Inspector. But that area now has the all important Auto Enhance button.

and there was always right-click - Reset Adjustments, was good enough for me

I'm a long time Mac guy but I'm getting a little uneasy with Apple's direction lately. They are doing the same thing to Aperture they did to Final Cut. I can live with that but the OS is really getting to me. Lion is really buggy and I don't think the average user notices the issues as much as the pro user so they don't care to fix them. I think this is why Mt. Lion is only $20, they know Lion was crap. Kind of the same way Leopard was a rushed piece of crap and Snow Leopard was more the finished product.

We will see. I skipped Leopard and it seems I will skip Lion as well.
Thanks for the feedback!

Arnt

[Keith B]

I think you can toggle between simple view/advanced view in the previous version. Can you still bring that up? Otherwise there is always curves ...

The Simple/Advanced is gone. Just Highlight, Shadow and Mid Contrast are left.

and there was always right-click - Reset Adjustments, was good enough for me

Each palette still has it's own Reset Adjustment, it is just the reset all is in a different more obvious place.

It's worse than most of the previous OS's for sure. For example, when I disconnect and reconnect to an external display, the views of the the multiple desktops ('Mission Control') goes wonky, and I have to go into Activity Monitor and quit the Dock application to sort it out. Mountain Lion, which I've been running on one machine since April, does seem more stable, with some nice improvements, too.

Glad to hear that. I have problems with most ejectables. I have to force eject often. I have issues with dragging and dropping files. Often I can't save changes to files and I've turned off the Time Machine auto save crap. Very frustrating.

I'd like to do a clean install but with out a disk it seems very time consuming.

[ahab1372]

The Simple/Advanced is gone. Just Highlight, Shadow and Mid Contrast are left.
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Just found this regarding the improved(Apple)/crippled(us) Highlights & Shadows tool in Aperture 3.3. There is a ways to bring the old tool with the advanced options back:
http://www.apertureexpert.com/tips/2...-aperture.html

I had already experimented with Curves, but this is still easier.

Arnt

[Keith B]

Just found this regarding the improved(Apple)/crippled(us) Highlights & Shadows tool in Aperture 3.3. There is a ways to bring the old tool with the advanced options back:
http://www.apertureexpert.com/tips/2...-aperture.html

I had already experimented with Curves, but this is still easier.

Arnt

Thanks for info. I read the part where the author says he couldn't do a better job. In all honesty I try to stay away from that pallet. It means I've jacked up a shot. I have used to fix images where my strobes didn't fire and the model nailed a pose though.

I recently shot an event that TONS of purple uplighting and Aperture for some unknown reason can NOT handle purple especially when it bleeds out from a hot spot. I had 700 shots and Aperture was destroying them all.

Out of desperation I downloaded the Lightroom 4.1 trial and I hate to say it but it did a great job on the purple and just about everything else. The UI is as clanky and goofy looking as could be but the Adobe RAW engine has come a long way in 4 years.

I really hate to say this but I think I may invest the $150 in LR as I really in and foresee Apple throwing in the towel on pro apps. I expect Aperture and iPhoto to merge. Maybe behind the scenes this is Apple throwing a bone back or playing nice with Adobe again.

[neuroanatomist]

Lion is really buggy and I don't think the average user notices the issues as much as the pro user so they don't care to fix them. I think this is why Mt. Lion is only $20, they know Lion was crap. Kind of the same way Leopard was a rushed piece of crap and Snow Leopard was more the finished product.

It's worse than most of the previous OS's for sure. For example, when I disconnect and reconnect to an external display, the views of the the multiple desktops ('Mission Control') goes wonky, and I have to go into Activity Monitor and quit the Dock application to sort it out. Mountain Lion, which I've been running on one machine since April, does seem more stable, with some nice improvements, too.

[neuroanatomist]

I've turned off the Time Machine auto save crap. Very frustrating.

Never used Time Machine. I use SuperDuper! to clone to external drives. One stays at work, one at home, each partitioned into separate volumes for my two and my wife's one Mac. That way, my backups are also bootable clones.