How to edit cropped version in Photoshop?

Question

Once I crop an image in Aperture and then open it in Photoshop it opens the original version. Is there any way to have Photoshop open the version that has been cropped in Aperture?

Answer 1

kerryk wrote:
Bit annoying you can't make further edits on photos already edited by Photoshop though - maybe this is a feature that Apple could include in Aperture 4?
But you can.  As Ernie mentioned, if you select the Image that has been edited externally and then had adjustments added and create a duplicate Version, Aperture will "bake in" your adjustments (or "flatten" the Image) and send to your external editor a file with all the Adjustments included.
Aperture gives you the option to either "bake in" your adjustments prior to sending back to an external editor, or to re-edit the Original, and have the adjustments applied to the changed Original when it is returned.
This particular design -- what Ernie has himself (iirc) christened "Pseudo-Originals" -- is difficult to understand at first, but remains practicable.  Here is what Aperture does:
- All Images are created by applying the adjustments and metadata changes specified in the Version file -- it's just a text file of instructions -- to an Original image-format file.  This is done on-the-fly.
- When you first send an Image to an external editor from within Aperture, Aperture creates a new Version and sends that Version to the external editor.  After you make changes in your external editor and save your changes, they are reflected _in the Original of the newly created Version.  (This is what Ernie calls the "Pseudo-Original".)
- If you select this Image in Aperture and send it back to your external editor, Aperture sends _the Original_, and keeps the Version file.  You (again) edit the Original, and any adjustments or metadata changes you've made are re-applied after you close the file in the external editor.
- When you want to edit _the Version_ of a previously-externally-edited Image in you external editor, you must manually create a new Version in Aperture first.  Select the Image, and "File➞Duplicate Version".  Then select this newly created Version, and send it to your external editor.  All of your adjustments will show.
This is easily seen in practice.
- Select an Image
- Rotate it 45° in Aperture (Original is unchanged; Version shows rotation)
- Send it to your external editor (New Original with rotation is created, new Version shows new Original)
- Crop away 80% of it (Crop shows in external editor)
- Save your changes and close the file (Original is cropped; Version is still just passing through the Original with no additional adjustments)
Your cropped, rotated Image should show in Aperture (you might have to force Aperture to create a new Preview: hold the Option key and run "Photo➞Generate Preview").
- In Aperture, apply a Black & White adjustment (Original is still cropped; Version shows grayscale)
- Duplicate this Version
- Select both Versions (one colored and one grayscale) and send them to your external editor.
You should see one file cropped and colored, and one file cropped and grayscale.  In the first case, you are editing the Original that does not include the B & W adjustment (it will be applied back in Aperture after you close and save the file in the external editor).  Note that, like all adjustments, this can be removed by unchecking the box at the top left of the Adjustment Brick.  In the second case, you are editing a new (Pseudo-) Original that has been made by "baking in" the B & W adjustment.  This adjustment cannot be removed.