IPhoto Enhancement equivilant in Aperture?

I often use iPhoto's Enhancement feature quick down and dirty photo adjustments that often do just what I need to improve my underexposed photos. So I'm wondering, is there a way I can get that one click type of enhancement in Aperture? I'm using the trial version on Powerbook G4. If it comes performing pretty well through the trial, I'll probably go ahead and purchase it.

I appreciate all the feedback, and though I understand that Aperture is geared toward professionals--that's why I'm upgrading to it--I think many wedding and event photographers who are shooting a 1000+ photos on a weekly basis would have no problem using and maybe overusing an Enhancement feature, especially when it delivers good results. It's sorting of like setting up actions in Photoshop or presets in Bridge in order to batch process multiple photos so that you can concentrate on particular images that you want to enhance beyond the batching process.
There's times I've seen the Enhancement feature make a picture pop, and it does it in a fraction of a time that it would take me to do the same thing in Photoshop.
Don't get me wrong, Aperture rocks. Once I learn the set up and the controls, it's going to increase my workflow significantly. But I'd be lying if I said I don't miss iPhoto's simple enhancement feature.
Well, anyway, I took parts of today figuring out some importing strategies, keyword configurations, and Apeture book templates. This weekend I'll tackle its adjustment features some.
Thanks again for the feedback. I appreciate it.

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Hey,
I've searched around a bit for this but can't seem to figure out how to to it.
I'm trying to manage my ~140GB photo library on my Macbook Air which has 128GB of HDD. On top of that, you can imagine that most of that 128GB is filled with system stuff.
My objective is to keep most of my library offline from the Macbook Air, but still keep it all together.
I kinda went "all-in" with iPhoto a few years back to organize my photos so gave up on Aperture. I'd always wanted to move to Aperture or Lighroom but the migration appeared to be a complete disaster. Now with "transparent" compatibility it seems like a no brainer to get the best of both worlds.
I thought that Aperture allowed you store files on external hard drives but still have "thumbnail" access to them even when the drive wasn't connected. Or did I misread that? (Is that Lightroom?)
Anyway with the new update I thought that I could merge my available iPhoto libraries into one Aperture library that I could always have access to, while offloading the actual photos somehow to an external HDD.
This would be a real winner for me. It seems tho that an iPhoto library stays an iPhoto library. So while merging might be helpful for someone with a big hard drive, it's completely useless for me as if anything, I need to split. Or create more. Or some other form of adding complexity.
Any ideas here?

Figured this out on my own.
Make a backup of everything - Aperture seems to require rebuilds and stuff and stories abound of "things going a bit wrong."
Did you make a backup? If you don't want to or can't, I wouldn't do this. After all, it's your photos!
Setup your Aperture library on a USB drive.
Update iphoto to the newest version. Open all your libraries in iPhoto to update them. This may take awhile depending on library size.
Import whatever iphoto libraries you have to Aperture. This make take awhile (hours!) - if your stuff is more than say 25 gigs I'd recommend setting it up for overnight.
Once everything is in Aperture - check its all working right. Then go ahead and maybe make another backup
Then migrate your photos out of the library. This takes all the originals and stores them elsewhere, called "offline". Once they're there, you can't move them around, so pick a good spot!! This also takes forever.
Once this is done your Aperture library should be smaller and just copy it to your MacbookAir
I'm still working on this as it looks like something went funky and I have to rebuild my thumbnails, another overnight processing thing. Like I said, keep a backup But I have a slimmed down Library on my Macbook Air now which is what I wanted.
This whole thing is kinda a mess and while it's feasible Apple hasn't made it easy. There's also some crazy stuff Aperture does with thumbnails and "previews" so that they take a bunch of space up (in my case almost as much as my photos), so you might have to work with that.
The guy at Apertureexpert.com is a genius.
Check out this post for more on slimming your Aperture Library:
http://www.apertureexpert.com/tips/2010/1/20/reducing-library-sizedramatically.h tml
Edit:As a side-note I put some HTML in my message and it looks like it isn't used in the forum - why does Apple bother having the formatting tools if they don't work? Kinda like the close-door button on an elevator?
Edit2: Haha it shows up in the answer but not in the normal thread. Strange, eh?

How to import a book from iPhoto 9.2 to aperture 3

Can I import Projects (Photobooks) from iPhoto 9.2 to Aperture 3? I have all my library on iPhoto and I would like to be able to transfer it completly to Aperture. Some advice would be great, since I am new to Aperture, Thanks!

You can't do this.
Regards
TD

Quality concerns when creating a book in iPhoto from images in Aperture

I use Aperture but I still like the ides of creating books in iPhoto as their styles are more suitable to, such things as, holiday photo albums than the styles offered in Aperture. The approach I use is to open iPhoto, use the 'Show Aperture Library' facility, drag and drop the images into iPhoto, and then create a book in the normal way in iPhoto.
The concern is that the imported images into iPhoto are just small jpegs. The original in Aperture may be a 8MB RAW image whereas the imported image into iPhoto, for the purpose of book creation, may just be a 500KB jpeg. This surely must have an effect on the quality of the printed images in the book. Any views, please.

John,
Unless you get the little yellow exclamation mark triangle warning when you put the photo in the book. you should be ok. If not, you may have to recreate the preview for those images back in Aperture. I believe the previews are all that are used in the book. I just had a book printed through Aperture and had no problems with the default half size previews.

A reference on iPhoto 8.x to Aperture 3.22 migration

This might be useful to others, I'm also seeking additional references.
Based on my own testing and what I've read here and elsewhere I've been editing a blog post on iPhoto 8.x to Aperture 3.22 migration (I chose Aperture migration rather than upgrading to iPhoto 9. I'm also still on Snow Leopard/MobileMe - I'd prefer to migrate to Mountain Lion than to Lion.)
So far I've migrated two smallish iPhoto Libraries (<5 GB). My 90GB iPhoto Library will go last.
It's not been painless, but in many ways it's gone better than I expected (my expecations were low). I'm glad I waited for Aperture 3.22/3.23 before migrating.
The lack of migration of Album/Event Descriptions is the biggest disappointment so far. There are no Descriptions on Aperture Albums, but the lack of migration of Event Descriptions is weird. Aperture Projects do have Descriptions.
I'm updating my notes here:
http://tech.kateva.org/2012/03/iphoto-8-to-aperture-3-migration-notes.html
If you know of any good Community posts or FAQs or articles please send them my way and I'll update the little article I wrote. Apple could document this a bit better.

no need for help... it seems like whenever i imported the pics from iphoto, they became corrupted. after a painful 12 hours long process, i finally get all my pics reloaded into the iphoto library.

Iphoto 9 libary to aperture 3.4?

Is it possible to import an iphoto 9 libary to aperture 3.4?
Problem: after a hard disc exchange I cannot reload my time machine backup.
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Hi Léoni,
I'm working on an iMac 27" with an intel core duo 3,06 MHz, (Jan. 2010) and iLife 9 was pre-installed.
Apple made a recall on iMacs out of this period, because of potential failures with the hard disc.
I took it to my dealer to exchange the HD, but before I did an update with Time Machine.
When it returned, I was not able to re-load the last update, because the Mac didn't find working Back up's.
However, I saved any data (documents, music, movies, pictures etc,) on a separate Hard disc.
iPhoto 9 is not on the installation discs which came together with the Mac.
It's not a problem to buy iPhoto 11, but I'm wondering, whether I will be able to open the old iPhoto library (vers. 09)!?
Do have an idea on this issue?
thx
Thomas.

Merging iPhoto's library with Aperture's

What I want to accomplish: merge my iPhoto library with my Aperture library, creating one Aperture library while removing any duplicates.
What I've done: copied my iPhoto library to an external disc.
What I've tried to do: use "import library" on the Aperture File (while in the current aperture library on my internal disc) menu to import the saved iPhoto library on my external disc.
What happened: iPhoto library is visible but not selectable.
What went wrong? Thanks.

Got it working--not sure what happened.
Probably your iPhoto library needed upgrading to the latest iPhoto version that is compatible with your recent Aperture version. If your Aperture version is currently Aperture 3.5.1, you need to open any iPhoto library that you want to import at least once in iPhoto 9.5.1. Otherwise you cannot select it. See this document:
Aperture 3.3: How to use Aperture to merge iPhoto libraries http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5296

Using iPhoto Book Themes in Aperture

I would like to use the iPhoto book themes in Aperture.
Anyway of importing them.
Thanks, Paul.
iMac Intel Core Duo 20", 2 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.6) Nikon Coolscan V ED, Nikon D200, Iomega MiniMax

In iPhoto-08 I have 13 book themes and in Aperture 2.0.1 I have 8 beautiful themes, fully customizable that is. I am also able to make my own Custom Themes.
The new themes is Formal and Modern Lines.
You can find more info on this at:
www.apple.com/aperture/features/100.html
I think that the reason for more themes in iPhoto is that iPhoto is aimed at the consumer market and Aperture for the professional market. If I really would like to make a book with the Crayon- or the Water Color theme (would I ever?) I certainly would update preview for those images and then make the book in iPhoto.
IMHO the book options has become more flexible in v2 although there are some issues yet and some features I really would like to see in an upcoming upgrade.
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This photo is in an Aperture stack and cannot be put into the iPhoto Trash. Use Aperture to delete this photo.
I have removed all the photos from Aperture, including emptying the Aperture trash. So, not sure why I'm getting this message if there aren't any photos in the Aperture library??? Any ideas would be great, thank you.

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2. paste this script into Script Editor and save it as an Application.
3. in the Finder, drop the 'Originals' folder from within the iPhoto library onto the new application; what we call a Droplet. the Finder will replace all aliases within the folder and nested folders with their original image files.
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that about says it all, trying to merge two iPhoto libraries into one Aperture library.
First off one empty Aperture library, import one iPhoto library, stalls near the end and have to FQ.
Try to import and merge the second library, same stall and have to FQ.
Any ideas....totally new to Aperture.
Using latest versions of Aperture and iPhoto.

update: second time around with merging libraries, it went to the end. But now I have the one library contained thousands of duplicates!

IPhoto 9.3 and Aperture 3.3 can't see ....

I upgraded to iPhoto 9.3 and Aperture 3.3. One feature was to see Iphoto library in Aperture and Aperture libray in iPhoto. This does not work for me. Or am I missing how to do this. I see in Aperture there is no longer an import from iPhoto option. I see everything fine in ther respective apps.
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Ernie

How can I import Master files from my iPhoto library to my Aperture lib?...

... That is knowing that I have already imported all my iPhoto library but I selected the option "in their current location" from the "store files" pop-up menu.
So right now, all my pictures are referenced images in Aperture but stored in their current locations on the iPhoto folder.
I simply want to get the masters back into Aperture.
How can I do that?
Thanks a lot for you help

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http://www.apple.com/aperture/tutorials/
one of which is specific to Aperture/iPhoto
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RB maintains a great site with a wealth of ideas on workflows, worth having a erad of these.
http://photo.rwboyer.com/
Tony

Can I make a calendar in iPhoto '09 using my Aperture 3.0 library?

I've just doanloaded a trial of Aperture 3 and am generally very impressed. I decided I wanted to make a wall calendar, which is not supported but it says somewhere you can work from your Aperture library from within iPhoto. Is this only supported in iPhoto 11, or in 09 too? (I only have iPhoto 09)
When I click on the 'Show Aperture Library' in iPhoto, I get the popup with 'loading images' but nothign actually happens?
Can anyone advise? If I cna't use iPhoto to make teh calendar is there a way of easily getting out my chosen images from Aperture?

I don't really know. Make sure you have turned on "Share Previews with iWork and iLife". This is found at "Aperture→Preferences→Previews".
My suggestion, however, is that you upgrade to the most recent version of iPhoto. The upgrade is $15 US at the App Store -- this seems worth it alone for a calendar. The most recent upgrade should provide much better integration with other Apple products.
It is always easy to "get your Images out of Aperture". Select the Images that you want to use with other programs, and run "File→Export Versions". You will be presented with a dialog box from which you select an Export Preset. The Preset determines the settings used to create your new files. These Presets can be seen and edited via "Aperture→Presets→Image Export".

How can I get iPhoto to talk to Aperture? Or, probably more accurately, Aperture to talk to iPhoto?

I have reconstructed my Aperture library--and, finally, replaced it with an older version from my back-up drive and then worked that one over. Still, Aperture only occasionally shows up in my iPhoto media option pane, and rarely in some other iLife programs. When it does, changes in Aperture don't show up in iPhot when they should (this makes pulling photos or versions over to iPhoto, then, impossible). None of the tech guys at Apple could get me so far as I was able to get myself last week.
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As this affects iPhoto and other apps, it's not an iPhoto problem. It's on the Aperture end. I think you'll get best results on the Aperture forum.
Regards
TD

Using Iphoto's maps in Aperture

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Once you've added the shot to the iMovie project there is no link between the shot in iMovie and the shot in iPhoto. You can change anything you want in iPhoto and what's in iMovie is unchanged - even delete the shot entirely.

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