Making Cards in Aperture 2

I am new to the program but I am trying to make a Christmas card for a client where I put a few images on the side of one big image. I hope this makes sense. Is this possible? Example I have a 5x7 picture of a baby but in the corner of that 5x7 I want to put two 1x1 images of different poses. I really appreciate any help:) Thanks

Your response also answered a question that I had.
I tried your solution but I am still left with a book of a minimum of 20 pages. All I am seeking is just one page with 2 or more photos .... without having a whole book ?
Thank you.
Matthew.

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Imports from my memory card to Aperture have suddenly become scrambled. Not in numerical, chronological, or any order.

Hi waynecook. More information is needed in order to provide a helpful response.
What settings are you using in the Import dialog?
Can you sort the images once they are imported?
Are they sorted/sortable in the Import dialog?
Into what container are you importing them?
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How do I print cards in aperture?

How do I print cards in aperture as I do in iPhoto? Import from Aperture to iPhoto? Is iPhoto better to make cards?

Hi scrennie;
In the pull down menu under Images there is a and entry labeled Edit with. If you expand that entry you should see Noise Ninja.
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Hi Dave;
No. PCIx and PCIe or PCI Express are not the same thing.
PCIx is an extended or slight sped up version of PCI. While PCIe is a switched bus structure instead.
Hence they are not the same. That is what all of the big news is about Apple has made the leap over to PCI Express.
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Will Graphics Card Help Aperture on Mac Pro?

I've been using Aperture for many years on a variety of Mac hardware. I have 5 or 6 image libraries, ranging in size from 50gb to 250gb. I have no referenced images, do not use "faces" or other CPU-intensive features, and often perform tasks which reportedly improve Aperture performance (deleting caches, repairing/rebuilding libraries, defragging hard drives. deleting prefs). While these tricks often result in a snappy experience on relaunch, Aperture returns to its sluggish ways after a few minutes of work.
My workflow is very simple -- I plug in my camera, download photos to the HD, and then edit them, which consists of adjustments such as exposure, white balance, sharpening, rotating, cropping. I don't do much retouching, red eye, or other fancy editing. Occasionally I use the "external" edit feature to retouch in Photoshop. I shot for many years with a Canon Rebel, 14MP I believe, and recently got a Nikon D800. I am finding the performance going through D800 raw files (not even editing, just flipping through them) unacceptable. For example, if I go to hybrid list/preview view, and press the "down" key 10 or 15 times, by the 5th image, there is a very noticeable lag, and often the display beachballs for 10 seconds or more before it gets to the bottom of the list. Basic tasks such as cropping or rotating often lock the display for long periods of time.
For many years, I blamed Aperture's awful performance on my hardware. I worked on a series of Mac laptops. Although I usually had the latest hardware, they were no desktop. Recently, I bought a Mac Pro with a 3.2GHz Quad-Core Xeon processor, 16GB of ram, an OWC SSD (for the system -- the libraries are on a 7200RPM drive), and a ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card. I was dismayed to find out that Aperture is STILL unbearably slow. If I can't simply flip through some photos on a top of the line Mac Pro, what is this program good for?
My question now is, would I see a significant performance gain if I were to upgrade yet again to a faster graphics card, such as the Radeon 7950? I've been reading up on these cards, and it seems like native support is coming in 10.8.3. While I hesitate to pour more money into my quest for a useable Aperture system, I wonder if this would finally show some significant performance gains. I've read conflicting reports from other users who've upgraded the graphics card. Is the advantage mainly for 3D or gaming applications or would this help Aperture too?
Thanks in advance for any replies!

In the past Aperture has been very GPU-dependent. The very best G5 tower would bog on Aperture unless the stock GPU card had been upgraded. I expect current Aperture also to benefit from a stronger GPU but I do not have absolute info on that. And your existing 5770 is not a lame card.
I know 16 GB RAM seems like a lot, but with D800 files and an Aperture/Photoshop workflow you may still be paging out to disk. My Aperture/Photoshop workflow paged out at 8 GB RAM with files 1/3 the size of the D800 files.
You should evaluate whether or not you have adequate RAM:
Look at the Page Outs number under System Memory on the Activity Monitor app before starting a typical Aperture/Photoshop work session and write the number down. Recheck the Page Outs count after working for a few hours and write the number down again. If the page outs change (manual calculation of ending page outs number minus starting page outs number) is not zero your workflow is RAM-starved.
Ignore the pie charts and other info in Activity Monitor because they are often misleading regarding RAM usage. For RAM analysis, count page outs.
If your test shows that page outs increase at all during operation you should add RAM. RAM is dirt cheap and use of additional RAM a very desirable characteristic for an Aperture/Photoshop workflow. If it was me I would double to 32 GB RAM and set PS (PS Preferences/Performance/Memory) to use 16 GB of RAM.
Hard drives slow as they fill so make sure none of your hard drives are overfilled. I suggest 70% full as an arbitrary maximum but even less full is preferable for speed. If your Library drive exceeds 60% full I suggest setting a RAID 0 array on two or more identical drives to get extra capacity and speed. Of course pay careful attention to frequent Library backup.
Some apps like browsers are notorious for "leaking" memory so when doing serious images work keep non-essential applications closed. A SSD drive for boot helps because when apps open in just 3 seconds there is no reason to keep extraneous apps open.
HTH
-Allen
P.S. I strongly recommend that original images be fully backed up before importing into Aperture or any other images management application.
P.P.S. Makhe sure you have a properly set PS Scratch Disk assigned on a fast underfilled drive, and empty the scratch disk routinely.

Erasing SDHC cards with Aperture 2.0

I now notice that when I import photos from my 8 GB SDHC card, Aperture prompts me at the end of the import if I would like to erase the card before ejecting. I say yes and then after the card is ejected, I notice that images still remain on the card. How come?
I have to use the special adapter where I place the SDHC card into and then into my USB port. Is that a possible reason?

I have the same problem you describe with Aperture.
iPhoto can erase images from my memory card, no problem.
But aperture does not erase images even when I tell it to.
So much for a "pro" app. Aperture is still buggy, it seems.
It does not matter if you use the memory card in you camera or in a card reader. Same result. I have a Pentax K10D and format my memory cards in the camera.
What bugs me the most is that this used to work nicely with the 1.5 version of Aperture.
They have broken this with Aperture 2.0.
Also, Aperture 2.0 does not auto-rotate images from my Pentax K10D
iPhoto, however auto-rotates images from my camera. So much for a "pro" App.
And Aperture 2.0 does not support tethered shooting with my Pentax K10D.
With Aperture, I feel like a second-class citizen with my Pentax K10D.
Seems like Apple only want to support Canon and Nikon SLR owners.
I hope Apple fixes these bugs soon.
Anyone know where I can send a bug rapport for Aperture to Apple?
I really want these 3 things to work with Aperture and my Pentax K10D:
1. Auto-rotation of images
2. Erasing images from the memory card after import.
3. Tethered shooting.
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"Create new versions when making adjustments" - Lion, Aperture 3.1.3

I recently upgraded to Lion, and then shortly thereafter to Aperture 3.1.3.
While I don't seem to share everybody else's issues with Lion nor with Aperture, I do have one of my own.
In Preferences -> Advanced, I have a box titled "Create new versiont when making adjustment." It is checked.
My expectation, (and the way things have always worked under Snow Leopard) is that if I select a master image and begin to make adjustments to it from _any_ feature int he adjustments pallette, that I new version will be created, stacked next to the original, and that the changes I am making will be made to the new version. This is _not_ what is happening.
Instead, the changes are applied directly to the master image. This is annoying, and will probably be fixed in an update...    I thought the work around would be to manually create the version for the time being, until Apple sorts this out. That didn't work either.
If I manually create a version, and then proceed to make adjustments to the version, Aperture dows what I would have expected in the first place. It creates a new version and applies the changes to that.
For example, I right click on a master image and select "New Version form Master" A new version, titled "... - Version 2" is created. When I begin to modify Version 2, a new version is created titled "... - Version 3" and my changes are applied to this version... leaving me with the master and Version 2 which are now duplicates of each other.
Even more interesting is this:
Images that were imported into Aperture prior to the Lion upgrade, and the 3.1.3 patch behave as expected, in that a new version is created when adjustments are applied to a master image.
Images that were imported into Aperture _after_ the upgrade to Lion and the 3.1.3 patch act as describd above, in that no new version is created when adjustments are applied to a master image.
So... Here are the questions:
1. Is anybody else experiencing this?
2. Does anybody know how to restore the correct behavior?

Alright,   I have solved the problem.
Some time ago, I thought it might be neat to import pictures with the Auto Exposure adjustment in place. What I didn't realize was that if the master image is in the library with adjustments on it, it downs't create a new version when you add additional adjustments.
As soon as I disabled that, and imported some new imges the probelm went away.
Also... I went back to the six or seven project that I had imported while use Auto Exposure and removed that adjustment from those images...
All is resolved.

Making book with aperture..when moving pictures from book, where do they go? I wanted to move a picture to another page

I am making a book using Aperture. During the production process, when I want to replace a picture, or move it to another location in the book, as I click and move it out of the book, it "disappears". (In I Photo 11 it returned to my list of available pictures).
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Hello,
how do you "click and move the image out of the book"?
If I have added an image to a book page and want it removed and maybe added to a different page, then I ctrl-click the image on the book page and select "cut content", delete or "copy content" (or I select it and press the delete key). Then the image will reappear in the film strip below the book pages and I can drag it to a different page (or I can paste it directy onto a different page if I selectes "copy..".
If I on the other hand deleted an image from the film strip below the book, then the image will be gone from the book completely. How is this different for you?
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"Referenced": the original files from my camera's card - or Aperture files?

New to +Aperture 2+.
I may be misunderstanding *Referenced vs Managed*.
I understand that Managed takes care of everything - including backups to the Vault.
But does "Store files…" (e.g. in ~/Pictures/Images etc) mean:
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or
2 - keep some other, new, files generated by Aperture in ~/Pictures/Images etc?
IOW which files will be stored outside Aperture if I opt for Referenced?
Is there anything (else) I cannot do with Referenced?
TIA!

Mark,
When you import as referenced, the file location for storage is the location that Aperture copies the files to from your camera or memory card. All the edits and metadata relating to your photos are stored in the Aperture library.
AFAIK, the only thing you can't do with referenced files that you can do with managed files is have Aperture saved them in the Vault. In referenced, only the adjustments and metadata are saved in the Vault - you have to save your photos to backup or another disk manually (or with Time Machine).
Regards,
Calx

"solarization" w/ ATI X1900xt Card in Aperture (RAW only)

I have installed the ATI x1900xt card and have a solarization issue with images in the Canon .CR2 RAW format. JPG images are fine.
This started happening soon after the upgrade to Leopard 10.5.2.
I had done a re-install of Aperture to bring it back to 2.0 but still had the problem (and upgraded back to 2.1.1)
I run dual cards, and have the GeForce 7300 as secondary (the ATI x1900 as my main card)
If I run just the GeForce 7300, I have no issues, the issue is only present with the x1900. Even with the latest upgrade to 10.5.5, there is no 'fix.
If I move the Aperture window to a monitor running off the GeForce 7300, minimize and then maximize so that Aperture runs off that card, no problems.
Anyone else having this issue and know of a fix other than buying a different video card. I just bought the ATI x1900 4 months ago and can't afford to just buy another one.

The release of Leopard 10.5.6 has solved this issue, within the release notes is reference to Graphics updates to increase speed and stability within Aperture.

Best video card for Aperture

Hi
Which is for you the best video card built for Macpro to use with Aperture, excluding the1,5GB card from Apple store?
The 8800GT 512 is great one?
I think I'll use in future with an Apple cinema display 23".
Thanks
Koferc

Barefeats seems to like the Radeon HD 3870 Mac for the Mac Pros. I ordered my MP with the 8800 GT upgrade, but as steebow posted above it appears the ATI has better drivers, so that the 3870 upgrade seems to be the way to go. Aperture was not tested, but in other Core Image tests it seems to do better on the 3870:
http://www.barefeats.com/harper16.html
Here's a recent test of 10.55 compared to 10.5.4 for the two cards as well:
http://www.barefeats.com/harper20.html
The 3870 is available at OWC for $217.99:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/ATI%20Technologies/100435928/

Best video card for Aperture with Power Mac G5

Any suggestions for a good video card to use with a 2.0 GHz dual processor G5 (AGP video). The current card is an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro with 64 MB of VRAM and the performance isn't fast enough to use Aperture for image edits -- sorts and metadata updates work well enough, but something like cropping is too slow to be workable.

I looked long and hard for this card, and after waiting for months to get one, it finally arrived...DOA. I sent it back for exchange, and they had no more in stock, so my money was refunded. I looked again, and luckily found another one at a different retailer. It arrived and worked for about a month before artifacts started showing up. I sent it back to ATI for repair on December 4, and I still haven't gotten a replacement. The latest run of X800 cards that were retooled for ROHS compliance are crap. There are so many defective ones coming to their repair facility that repairs/replacements are taking more than 10 weeks.
That being said, the difference it makes in Aperture over the 9600 is significant, but not earth-shattering. For RAW images, it won't make performance great, but it will at least be tolerable compared to what it is now. There's no other video card upgrade for an AGP G5 that is worth pursuing. Still, it's a rather expensive card at about $300, and considering the quality issues and how difficult they are to find, I'd say it's not worth the hassle. Save up for a new Mac instead. One of the new Mac Pros, even the 4-core model with the Radeon HD 2600 XT, is blazingly fast in Aperture compared to a maxed-out G5.

G5 graphics card for Aperture

I want to run Aperture on my 1.6 Gh PowerMac G5. Too many choices for the graphics card upgrade! I don't need high end or super fast, just a good solid performer that is very compatible with the existing hardware. Please recommend a couple of choices. Thanks!

In order of speed, starting with the fastest:
ATI Radeon® X800 XT MAC Edition RoHS 256MB AGP
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 256 MB DDL (AGP)
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 256 MB DDL (AGP)
ATI Radeon™ 9800 Pro Mac Special Edition
Look for them at
<http://www.welovemacs.com/g5video.html>
<http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/video/hardware/>
Be sure to get a Mac version of any card. There are lots of versions of the 9800. Be sure to get one made for the G5.

Video card compatability - Aperture on Mavericks

Since upgrading to Mavericks most full-res images in Aperture look corrupted (like this):
The thumbnails look fine and the preview (before the full-res image loads) look fine. The images are OK in the Finder and in iPhoto.
The problem appears to be the video card. I have an ATI Radeon HD 5770 and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 120. With either one removed the images display perfectly in Aperture.
Specs are:
MacPro 3.33
OSX 10.9.2
Aperture 3.5
Question is what to do - anybody know of a video card combination that definately works in Aperture on Mavericks?

What OS did you upgrade from and this exact configuration worked OK before the upgrade?
If so best I can offer is to look at the NVIDIA site and see i there is anything concerning Mac Pros and that card and mavericks. Maybe there might be an updated driver for it.
regards
Also you should post in the Mac Pro community, maybe someone there has an idea
Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano

Optimum video card for Aperture?

Can someone advise me? I'm about to purchase a Mac Pro and am thinking the basic configuration will be the way to go. I can add memory and hard drives more cheaply than it would cost me to upgrade the purchase configuration. The one thing I am wondering is whether to choose the default video card or upgrade to a faster one. My concern is with fast performance from Aperture - I am not a screaming gamer...or a gaming screamer - so I don't have to have anything THAT fast. What has been the experience of others?
Here are the offerings at the Apple store (obviously, the first is the one included in the basic config.):
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (single-link DVI/dual-link DVI)
2 x NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB [Add $149]
ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB (2 x dual-link DVI) [Add $249]
3 x NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB [Add $299]
4 x NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB [Add $449]
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB, Stereo 3D (2 x dual-link DVI) [Add $1649]
Marion

Today X1900XT, no question.
However new MPs have been overdue for half a year now. New MPs will have better value in graphics and in mass storage as well as latest generation processors. If at all possible wait until Mac Expo SF January 15 to make any MP purchase decision.
-Allen Wicks

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