Aperture 3 and Faces, is ignore an option?

I have numerous Projects in Aperture 3, I also use faces. But, I would like to have Faces ignore or not search a few projects , is there away to do that? Not all projects just one maybe 2.

The Library file page in the User Manual is a good place to start:
Working with Library Files
Aperture lets you select Images and/or Projects, and export them as a Library. You can then either use this Library, or import it into another Library. When you import, you are given the option to either merge (useful if you have exported from the Library into which you are importing) or copy.
In general, it is advised that you put as many files in one Library as possible. The standard exceptions are multiple photographers not working for the same company, images that need to be sequestered for legal reasons, and special collects that are not based on a single photographer (mainly scanned archives, but ****, too). The reason for keeping your Library big is that the Library is an index of everything in it. The more that's in it, the easier it is to find.
If the number of Images that you don't want to ever have show up when you use Faces is not large, just delete the Faces Position Box from them. This can be done by clicking the "x" if the box is showing, or right-clicking a proposed Face and selecting "Not a face".

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As mentioned in an earlier post, I just bought an Epson 3880 printer and some Epson Hot Press paper, so now I have to pay attention to PPI (term used for displays) and DPI (term used for printers).
In Aperture however, files being exported require DPI specs(!), while files being printed require that we specify PPI specs. How is that?
Also, my Epson manual indicates that I can print at 5 distinct "DPI" settings, from 180 to 2880. My Aperture Print window, however, only offers 3 options with 360 "PPI" as the highest (considered Draft quality by Epson - if "DPI"), plus a 4th referred to as Custom.
Also, I have a note jotted down a while back that says: "1440 dpi for most papers with 240 dpi files, at 2880 if 360" - whatever that meant 6 months ago at an Epson 3880 seminar, before I got the printer.
Can you guys sort this out for me? Please?
Thanks a lot,
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I'm not at my studio. My current driver is 8.x. The newest driver is 9.33. My remarks here may not fit with your more current version of the driver (but that would surprise me — the printer came out about 4 years ago, iirc).
The profiles are not, afaik, included with the driver, at least when you download it from Epson's site.
There are two profiles for each Epson Fine Art paper — one at 1440 and one at 2880. You should try each with every kind of print you make, and determine which is better. IME, _for my needs_, 2880 was never worse. I use the 2880 profiles.
The profile is selected from the "Color Profile" drop-down at the top of the "Rendering" section of Aperture's "Print" dialog.
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Leave "Print Resolution" at "Auto". I know of no reason to ever change this. (I don't, in fact, know what this control does, and have never changed it.)
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When that dialog closes, the OS print dialog opens. Your 3880 printer should already be selected in the "Printer" drop-down. You need to create and should save an OS Preset for your paper. Note that on the "Color Matching" page (this dialog has pages, not tabs; direct complaints to Cupertino), all (two) options should be grayed-out. This indicates that Aperture is handling color matching, which is what you want (for best prints and anything approaching a color-calibrated workflow). On the "Paper Handling" page, the "Destination Paper Size" drop-down is grayed-out, but should show you the selection you made in the Aperture Print dialog. The "Printer Settings" page has two tabs. On the "Basic" tab, in the "Media Type" drop-down, select your paper ("Fine Art Paper ▹ Hot Press [Bright or Natural])*. The "Ink" drop-down should be grayed-out, but show "Matte". Matte is proper selection for Hot Press [Bright or Natural]. This dialog knows this from your color profile selection in the Aperture Print dialog. Chose "16-bit" output and any other options your want (you can experiment; I find no difference). I ignore the warning about print quality at the bottom area — this has never been an issue. On the "Advanced" tab of the "Printer Settings" page, it should tell you that "Epson Driver Color Management is Off". That's what you want. You want Aperture to manage the color.
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1. I uploaded a photo to an album, tagged the photo on Facebook, sync'd the album in Aperture and the name appeared on the photo in Aperture.
2. I took another photo of the same person, added the name in Aperture to match what was on Facebook, but not as a FB name just a normal name, and then sync'd the album 5 times. I did not see any weirdness like you described.
3. Took the same photo from step 2, removed the tag on Facebook, sync'd the album in Aperture and the name tag stayed in Aperture.
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Additional edit: There are two Library folders I am referring to. The first is the one in your user account 'Home' folder which is the one you are going to by using the 'Go' menu. This is the one you are deleting files from in the steps listed. The second Library folder is the one in the root of your system drive and is not typically a location for beginners to work with (thus the final note above). Hope that is clear enough.
Message was edited by: CorkyO2 to add clarity concerning the 'Library' folder.

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...I was one of those whose Macbook Pros seized up for days when trying to upgrade to 3 from 2. In the end I reverted to 2 and restored from my backed up AP2 Library. All fine.
QUESTION: Is a viable answer to buy AP3 complete, and run AP2 (having re-named it to avoid confusion) for the old library and AP3 for all new photos? Are there any dangers?
I have read everything Kevin Doyle has written but I really cannot go to the lengths he does!
John B

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...and thanks for all the advice. I bought AP3 complete (not the upgrade this time) and followed this sequence and
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I set great store by Kevin Doyle's posts, particularly the need to avoid filling up a drive. Thanks to him too!
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Hi,
I migrated to the iMac from PC around a month ago and was evaluating my photo options both before and after the migration. The difference with me is, I guess, that I haven't previously been much of a user or any version of Photoshop, so had no Adobe-centric preconceptions to colour my own evaluation of Lightroom and Aperture.
I guess I qualify as an enthusiastic amateur who finally migrated from film to digital 5 years ago, after 25 years of film. On the PC, my photo management comprised folders on the hard disk plus Picasa to provide some basic abstraction layer and album facility. Editing was very basic and relied on The Gimp if no addressed by Picaca's built-in adjustments. Then I started taking photos in RAW rather than jpeg, and it all went to custard as they say.
Picasa didn't cut it any more, RAW opened up a lot more options and my collection was becoming unmanageable. Tried ViewNX - limited manageability. Tried Lightroom 2 on the PC - wow, this is more like it. Didn't like ACDSee, iview. Migrated to Mac, and started comparing all over again.
Lightroom - given my previous try-out I was expecting Good Things, so left the start of this trial until after using Aperture for 2 weeks. Suddenly Lightroom felt clunky - very modal and constraining.
Aperture - didn't really know what to expect. Imported all of my photos as referenced and found my folder structure replicated by albums. Kind of disconcerting initially as I couldn't work out where the Masters were, nor the true behaviour of albums, projects and folders in Aperture. Then it clicked - great version control and cataloguing, non-destructive edits etc etc, logical collections of photos. It worked more like my thought processes, rather than my thought processes having to adjust to how the software worked.
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I can see how previous experience with Photoshop or Lightroom would create a preference for continuing with Lightroom. For me, there's no business reason, emotional attachment or previous experience to consider, so Aperture won. Lightroom was uninstalled after 2 weeks.
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Message was edited by: CalxOddity

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That doesn't mean that they are "still there". It means that a cached version of the image exists.
I recall, when migrating photos it noted that the photos in iPhoto (old system) needed to be formatted to new iPhoto, so I allowed. Makes me wonder if something in a pic title or such is the issue.
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TD

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I had been using iPhoto 11 exclusively. I decided to try using Aperture 3. I populated a new Aperture library by referencing my entire iPhoto library, leaving the files in their original location. I decided to stop using Aperture and deleted the iPhoto pictures from within Aperture. I then cleaned the Aperture trash, which in turn moves those files to the system trash. Before clearing the system trash, I opened iPhoto to make sure that my files were still there. When I opened iPhoto, I saw all my files there and decided to proceed with clearing the system trash, thinking everything was preserved. The next time I went to use iPhoto, I tried selecting one of the pictures in my iPhoto library and got a black screen with an exclamation point inside of a triangle.
Before this disaster, I had just under 6,000 photos in iPhoto. iPhoto still tells me that I have this many pictures, and the size of my iPhoto library is still 30GB. When I browse inside of the iPhoto library, it appears as though the files that I imported into Aperture are missing their full sized versions, which is causing the black screen with the triangle and the exclamation point. Short of trying to recover the files through some sort of undelete procedure or data recovery attempt, can the pictures be restored from anywhere else?
I unforunately did not keep a backup, and Time Machine (which I do not use) would only let me go back a few hours to right after my last system trash purge, which doesn't do me any good. How come iPhoto is still saying that I have all my photos? How come the iPhoto library is still 30GB? I am guessing that this disaster has cost me about 80-85% of my photos. It just doesn't seem right that I should be able to delete my iPhoto masters from within Aperture. And if I am able to do that, which apparently I am and did, iPhoto should do a better job of reflecting the change.
Thoughts and suggestions for recovering these files? Thanks in advance!

By the way, I have several data recovery software packages. It looks like they are able to recover the pictures (or most of them), but all the filenames are lost.
Then, on no account, do anything that might write to your disk, until you recovered your images.
How come iPhoto is still saying that I have all my photos? How come the iPhoto library is still 30GB? I am guessing that this disaster has cost me about 80-85% of my photos. It just doesn't seem right that I should be able to delete my iPhoto masters from within Aperture. And if I am able to do that, which apparently I am and did, iPhoto should do a better job of reflecting the change.
I can only guess what happened, because you did not tell us how you imported your pictures into Aperture. Probably you used the option to import the images to Aperture as referenced master files, leaving the actual files inside the iPhoto library to avoid duplicates. And when you wanted to uninstall Aperure and delete its database, you told Aperture to delete the master image files and not only the references to the masters. So Aperture deleted the master image files inside the iPhoto Library.
and you were cutting of the branch you were sitting on.
The iPhoto Library must not be modified in any way, other then by iPhoto itself. iPhoto can't be blamed for reporting wrong information, if its database has been corrupted behind its back.
I wish, however, that Aperture would give a fair warning, if you ask it to delete master files locating inside an iPhoto Library package.

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