Lift & Stamp - why??

I have a large number of images that I'd like add various metadata to - in particular the caption field.
It beggars belief that I cannot simply apply a caption for all selected images in the caption box and then go.
Instead I have to faff about with the lift & stamp tool!
I'm sure the tool has it's uses in other areas but for applying metadata to selected images surly this is a rather long-winded way about it?

Ahh yes! Thank you Jade, that's much better

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Selective Lift & Stamp Operation

Hey all - can anyone offer an approach to lift and stamp only 1 adjustment on a given image?
I have a number of images that I've "developed", but and looking at the series as a whole, need to apply further changes to bring them in sync with each other. After getting my adjustments correct for my master, I am often overwriting ALL previous adjustments on the rest of the collection.
Can anyone advise how to selectively choose which adjustment is applied? (ie only an exposure tweak, but NOT a crop, sharpen or etc?) This also seems to apply to specific keywords, IPTC data etc.
Much appreciated,
Ted

Is this a common approach for mac applications? (it seems pretty non-intuitive from my pov)
Well, I have found Mac apps to be intuitive, in general. I think in this case, it's not, and you must learn what the Add/Replace buttons mean, or that you must delete the unwanted settings. The Lift & Stamp Add/Replace buttons make logical sense to me once I realized that Add means to add the setting to the existing set, while Replace means to replace all the settings with only what is in the Lift & Stamp HUD. Deleting the unwanted settings is easy.
There is a lot to Aperture that is not immediately apparent, which is why I learned so much going through the Luna/Long book. Like many applications I have tackled (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) there is a learning curve.

Selective lift-stamp

Okay, let's say I'm editing a batch of images, and the first thing I've done is level them all. (I'm shooting from a boat so almost every image needs some degree of leveling.) Then I notice my white balance isn't what I want it to be, and I'd like to batch correct all images to a new temp and tint. Is it possible to lift JUST the white balance from one frame, and stamp it on all the images, without overwriting the straighten adjustments I've already made?

Yes. In the Lift+Stamp HUD, just highlight and then press delete for the adjustments you don't want to stamp.

How to Lift/Stamp specific adjustments

How do I pick for ex. only Saturation or contrast, with the lift/Stamp tool. Not all of the adjustments in Exposure.

Yes you could create a preset, but no way to batch apply to a selection of images. Lift/Stamp is the only way for that .... only the thick bordered image out of all selected images get processed by an adjustment.

Lift & Stamp AUTO exposure

hi gang,
for a long time, you couldn't apply auto exposure to a series of images, and if you lift & stamp an auto setting, it would apply the actual value, not the "auto functionality" to other images. *well, something has changed, lift & stamp can do this now*. i'm not entirely sure with what update this changed, but it's brilliant nevertheless.
select an image, within the exposure brick, click on "auto" (leave the other sliders in the brick alone). Lift the settings (in the lift/stamp hud, it will now be referred to as "+default settings+". ah!
now select a range of other images, stamp your settings, and voila... *auto exposure different to every image*!

I need this feature because I shoot some time lapse and during the day I stay in aperture priority mode so the camera doesn't always pic the same shutter speed. When I play back the JPEG sequences there'll be some flicker in it.
After Effects has a filter that can kind of smooth it out but if Aperture would apply Auto Exposure to all the photos it'd probably do a better job. I guess I could do one photo at a time but with 500 to 2000 photos it would be a pain.

Any way to lift/stamp position or other metadata?

I have a heap of shots from a recent trip to Canada/Alaska, most of which are stamped with Lat/Long data from a GPS. But using two cameras and one GPS means some of my images are missing the data.
Is there any way to lift the position metadata from one image and stamp it onto the others? The metadata lift tool seems to ignore it, unless there is a workaround someone can point to.
BTW... A big thanks here to the Aperture team for the new "Show on Map..." command. Takes me back to the spot with a click of the mouse. For anyone who's ever gone back to your shots a few years later and wondered where exactly you were, geotagging together with Aperture 2's Google Maps integration is a godsend.

I have recently scanned about 750 slides from the last 25 years, puuuh.
Cause I took notes, where most of my photos were taken, I wanted to add GPS-ifo to be able to lookup im map etc.
I am using PhotoInfoEditor (http://www.mmisoftware.co.uk/), free and comes with a map interface, batch support etc.
IT's really poor that Aperture (using 2.x) is not supporting geotagging when having photos in a project. Any plug-in developers around? Should be easy and linakble to the show-in-map feature.
still hoping cause more slides to go
volker

Is there any keyboard shortcut for Lift & Stamp?

I would like to know if there´s any keyboard shortcut for "Lift and Stamp". Something like "copy and paste".

no prob ... just know that that way will lift and
stamp ALL current adjustments ...
to selectively do it, just uncheck the other
adjustments you dont want L&S'd ...
i routinely use this method and rarely use the lift
HUD ('O') ...
Exactly, I find this method very useful in my work.
Regards.

Adobe X Custom Stamps - Why reversing transparent image?

Have Adobe X 10.1.1. To prepare, I (1) Scan a signature to .tif; (2) open file in Paint.net; (3) crop down to have only signature; (4) save file at 600 dpi; (5) use magic wand to make transparent. Then, I (1) Paste file into a Microsoft product (Word 2007), and transparency holds. If I copy that transparent image file from Word 2007 into Clipboard ... and then, Paste Clipboard Image as Stamp Tool -- Transparency Holds. However, when I Create a Custom Stamp through Adobe Comment process, navigate to that transparent image, the image reverses the transparent area to black.
What is happening here? See random postings about .png not supported. Have had this happen with .png, with .gif, with .tif, and with .jpg (yes, I know .jpg doesn't support transparency). What gives? Anybody?

Me again. I want to expound a little bit. I currently use a .gif image style to insert scanned signatures into .pdf files. We have Assistants who insert many differening people's scanned signatures into Word documents, Excel documents, and Adobe PDFs. The .gif files were not scaled to size, nor were they transparent. Installed Paint.net to reset these scanned signatures to accurate scale and to being transparent. Was hoping to change from .gif to .png, as from my reeading, the .png file is clearer. My multi-functional devise scans to .tif or to .jpg ... but not to .gif or to .png. Life is fun, isnt' it.

Can't get lift and stamp tool working

I simply can't figure out how to get the lift & stamp tool going. I keep reading and re-reading the manual. I have a loop on one track with some effects on it, and want to apply the same effects (with the same levels) to a loop on a different track.
I click the clip whose effects I want to lift. The sound Palette opens up, but no properties are listed in the right of the Sound Palette box.
Any tips on what I could be doing wrong?

Update: I figured out that it only works on processed effects and not real-time effects. I see then that you're supposed to render the real-time effects as actions, but when I try to "Render to Action" the real-time effects, this option is grayed-out in the Process menu bar, so I am still unable to copy effects from the one track to another.

Can you be more selesctive with teh Lift and Stamp tool?

I use the lift and stamp tool a lot. Mainly on metadata. The problem is that the metadata/adjustments come in categories. You can see all the info of the pic your lifting from, and you can choose to only lift & stamp keywords or just Iptc, Label, rating etc.
My question is, can you select one specific field from these categories?
For example right now I only want my pictures to share Caption, but keep the information of provider and content location which varies from image to image.
is this possible?
Thank you in advance
Eleni

I don't want to delete any of the IPTC info.
I just want to lift Caption from IPTC and leave any other IPTC info untouched in both images (lifted and stamped)
So the image I'm lifting has a different provider from the one I want to stamp but the should all have the same caption. How can I only lift and stamp the caption?
thank you

Upgrade to Aperture 3.1.3 lift and stamp tool only will lift

I upgraded to Aperture 3.1.3 and the lift and stamp tool will only lift adjustments. Anyone else having this issue. Everything else seems to work fine.

No, that was not the link I had wanted to post. Thanks for the heads-up. My apology to the board and to the OP.
This is the link to another recent thread reporting problems/changes with the Lift/Stamp shortcuts after the 3.1.3 upgrade.
The problem is that once the Lift tool is activated ("o") and an Image has been selected, the cursor does not change to down-arrow stamp tool, and clicking Images does not stamp them.
Try this in Split View and let us know if it works. For some (including me) this still works in Browser View.

Stamp 'Auto exposure' not working?

Hello,
I've about 100 photo's. All taken under the same conditions.
I want to:
     - auto white balance
     - auto exposure
     - auto enhance
them.
So I did this to the first photo, then lifted metadata & adjustments, highlighted Adjustments, selected photo's no. 2 until the last one and stamped them.
Aperture was a while busy processing.
After processing was complete, I discovered that the 'auto exposure' hadn't been applied (or false applied?) to several (probably all) photo's.
The photo's were clearly over-exposed. So I stamped some of them again, one by one, to if anything would change but no, nothing changed.
However, upon selecting a single photo and clicking 'Exposure->Auto' in the Adjustments tab, the Exposure was adjusted (example: from 1,24 to 0,13).
In the online help I cannot find anything that says that you can't stamp 'auto exposure' or that you can't stamp several adjustments at once.
Any idea why this isn't working (correctly) and how to solve it?
Checking 100 photo's one by one seems a bit silly to do . . .
I'm using Aperture 3.4.5 on a MacBook Pro (early 2011 model) with OS X 10.8.4, and no outstanding updates.
Kind regards,
emeu1

I can duplicate what you are seeing. The problem shows up depending on the order you apply the adjustments to the first image.
1. First apply auto-exposure, then apply auto-enhance. Lift and stamp the adjustments. The auto-exposure adjustment is NOT applied to the selected images.
2. Now switch the order... first apply auto-enhance, then apply auto-exposure. Lift and stamp the adjustments. The auto-exposure adjustment is applied to the selected images.
So it would appear that stamping auto-adjustments fails depending on the order the adjustments were originally applied, at least when auto-enhance is included.
The auto-exposure adjustment does show up in the lift-and-stamp HUDs, but isn't being applied.
Some other notes...
Auto-enhance never seems to adjust exposure; it uses a combination of other adjustments, sometimes not always for the better.
Auto white balance gets thrown into auto-enhance, so I didn't include it when testing.
This smells like a bug to me, and I'm going to report it as such. You should do the same if you agree.
One more reason I don't like the whole lift & stamp approach to applying adjustments to multiple images. Blah!

Why can't I import gps data from iPhone photos in aperture 3

I have an iPhone 4 (it's already an old model!) and why can't i still not import GPS-data from photo's on my iPhone 4 in Aperture...
Importing photos from the iphone just goes fine...

Richie:
But do you see the GPS of the iPhone data in Meta data section of the Inspector (set to a preset that shows GPS), as Frank Caggiano asked?
If the images do import the EXIF data, then you should be able to lift and stamp the GPS coordinates. I do that freuently.
Select on of your iPhone images and lift the sata
In the lift&stamp HUD deselect everything but the GPS coordinates, like this.
If no GPS-coordinates do appear in this setting, then your iPhone images do not have the EXIF info required, and you may need to check the iPhone settings.
If you see the EXIF data, then you just need to select the DSLR images that were taken at the same location and you can stamp the EXIF data to the DSLR images.
And after that you should be able to see their locations in the Places view.

Stamping presets to multiple images doesn't work in 3.3?

I used to be able to lift adjustments from one image select multiple images and stamp multiple images at once. This doesn't seem to work in 3.3. Can someone verify please?

The hot key is ⇧⌘V (in the main menu bar : Metadata > Stamp Metadata and Adjustments) and this hot key also works for me on multiple selected images, provided "Primary only" is not enabled, as William pointed out. But I usually keep the Lift & Stamp HUD open, to be able to deselect some adjustment.
Regards
Léonie

ICal and time zone stamps?

Apologies that this is long. It's three questions about trouble I've recently encountered using iCal.
I imported 80+ appointments into iCal from a .ics file created by Oracle Calendar.
1. The .ics file did not contain any time zone info, and iCal associated each of the imported appointments with GMT, despite the Mac's zone set to "Denver" in the Date & Time preference pane and iCal's time zone set to "America/Denver". Why doesn't iCal associate unassigned appointments with its own time zone?
2. Each of those appointments appeared in iCal at the correct local time, despite being associated with GMT. That is, with iCal's zone set to "America/Denver" I would have expected an item imported as, e.g., 10:00 GMT to show up at 17:00 in the iCal window. But none of them did--they all appeared as if they were MST, but with GMT stamps, and I don't understand why.
3. I didn't actually find out these items were associated with GMT until after I synced with my Palm Tungsten E. All of the items imported as GMT were shifted 7 hours on the Palm. So I went back to iCal and for each and every one of the imported appointments I changed the time zone to "floating" and then "America/Denver". (If I went straight from GMT to MST the appointment jumped 7 hours back in time, and I got tired of this.)
After that process, every event in iCal was associated with MST. I then synced with the Palm and found that, to my surprise, the imported events still showed up on the Palm as if they were GMT, i.e., shifted forward 7 hours. I should add that I didn't merge, I told the sync conduit to erase the Palm's contents.
Back to iCal. I used "Back up Database..." and "Revert to Database backup...", then sync, telling conduit to erase Palm's contents. No change.
Back to iCal. I select one of the troublesome events, "cut" it to the clipboard, and then paste to bring it back. After a sync that one event shows up correctly on the Palm, i.e., as MST as intended.
The question at the end of a long #3 is, if an event is imported with the wrong time zone stamp, why does it retain that stamp despite being manually changed to a different time zone?
I know the knowledge base has an article on incorrect time zone stamps, and that a possible fix is to export the entire database and then import to a new calendar. I didn't find this out until recently, and it doesn't address iCal's behavior so much as provide a workaround.
PowerMac G5 DP 2.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.4)

After looking more closely at the .ics files exported by Oracle Calendar I see that events are exported as if they were GMT; iCal is, indeed, showing the appointments at the correct local time. This makes my first two questions irrelevant.
However, question #3 still remains: why or how does the original GMT stamp persist after manually setting an event's time zone to local time, "America/Denver"?

Lift & Stamp - why??

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