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.

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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.

  • Selectively lifting parameters

    According to the Aperture tutorial for the Lift&Stamp tool here http://www.apple.com/aperture/whatisaperture/ it says you can choose to selectively lift only certain parameters by deleting the ones you don't want to lift. I don't mean by way of the checkboxes, but for certain modifications under the "Adjustments" category. For example, the tutorial implies that I can lift an exposure and white balance adjustment from an image, but I can choose to not lift a crop adjustment applied to that same image.
    By following the tutorial, and selecting that particular adjustment and hitting "delete" I get the system error beep, and not the desired behavior as depicted in the tutorial. I am using Aperture 2.1.4. What am I doing wrong?

    Apparently after quitting and restarting Aperture the problem I was having went away. I started to notice weird behavior when a 3-star rated photo was not appearing in a smart album for photos 3-stars or better. When I quit and restarted Aperture the photo appeared properly, and I was subsequently able to delete adjustments from the lift tool. Thanks for the replies

  • 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

  • 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.
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    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.
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  • 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.

  • How can I select all stamps in a PDF file without having to click on each individual one?

    I use the stamps and text box feature to mark up engineering drawings in abobe acrobat 10. Sometimes revisions come for already worked on drawings so I need to transfer my work over. Usually I just hold control and click each stamp and text box then hit CTRL+C to copy all of them. However, sometimes there are 200+ stamps on a single PDF and clicking each and every one without letting go of CTRL is a lot harder than it sounds.
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    Stamps are basically comments. As such, they appear in the Comments List,
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    pressing Ctrl+A.

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  • Keep Tool Selected with Stamps

    Since upgrading to Acrobat Version 9, I've been having a Stamps problem. I've created a number of custom stamps, and I have work processes where I am required to stamp every page of a several-hundred page document. When I had 8.0, I could mark the checkbox for "Keep Tool Selected" and then just alternate between Pg Down and left-click to apply the stamps in rapid succession. So far I have not been able to get version 9.0 to let me keep the tool selected. For each individual stamp I have to click on the toolbar, then where I want the stamp applied, then the tool bar, then where I want the next stamp applied, and so on, and so on... This is a lot of extra moving of the mouse that slows the process down tremendously. Is this a bug in 9.0, or am I missing a setting somewhere?

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  • Multiple Identities when selecting a stamp

    I want to use a dynamic stamp, that says "APPROVED" but I want a list of people to drop down so that I can choose the one whose name will appear on the stamp. I know that I can edit the stamp each time a different user wants to use it, but the users will not go through that each time. They want a fast way to stamp approved with their name. They are all going to one computer to do this otherwise I would set up each computer with their own identity.

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  • Another white balance presets/settings question

    (this is related to two other posts regarding white balance presets, but didn't want to hijack those threads with my own specific questions...)
    i've got a canon s70, and have been messing around with a friends copy of aperture. the raw files of my camera are recognized (though the aperture camera support page identifies it as not optimized support), but the problem is that the white balance settings in camera are ignored.
    when i view a raw file from my camera in aperture, the exif data shows that it is recognizing different white balance settings (various numbers are displayed here, for example, 1 for auto, 3 for tungsten, 6 for manual, etc). however, the temp. and tint settings are the same for all the images, regardless of wb setting (5278K temp, -18 tint).
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    -i noticed that i can create white balance presets and apply them manually. i was wondering if it's possible to apply preset wb settings automatically. for example, is it possible to create an approximate wb setting for 'tungsten' (3), and then have it applied to all images with the '3' setting, either automatically on/immediately after import, or through an applescript or automator action?
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    thanks in advance for any help.

    I don't know about your other white balance issue, but yes, you can apply a white balance to a selection of images.
    Create a set of WB presets (one for daylight, cloudy, fluorescent, tungsten etc.). This takes moments and will be available on any future occasion.
    Select and apply your WB preset to an image
    Fine tune as needed (since in-camera auto white balance or presets often do not nail it)
    Select Lift/Stamp tool
    Click on your adjusted image
    In the Lift/Stamp HUD, deselect all adjustments except the WB
    Select all target images
    Click "Stamp Selected Images" button in the Lift/Stamp HUD

  • Recognizing my camera in Aperture

    I've just noticed that all the projects in the library on my MacBook Pro no longer recognize my Canon 5D Mark IIs (or any camera for images shot by others with Nikon). This is recent...I know it's worked in the past. I haven't changed any setting that I know of but any ideas why it's no longer recognizing them. I get unknown camera and unknown lens in my metadata. Thanks.

    I don't know about your other white balance issue, but yes, you can apply a white balance to a selection of images.
    Create a set of WB presets (one for daylight, cloudy, fluorescent, tungsten etc.). This takes moments and will be available on any future occasion.
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    Click on your adjusted image
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    Select all target images
    Click "Stamp Selected Images" button in the Lift/Stamp HUD

  • 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

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