Zoom in Aperture

I don't have Aperture yet - played with it a little yesterday at the Apple Store in Toronto - very impressed.
I'm curious though if you are able to zoom to other than 100%, either with the loupe or otherwise? I'm actually more interested in zooming to 50% or 25% than 'larger'. I also like the ability in PS to zoom to print size. This is very useful when outputting to print.

Aperture allows you to zoom from 100% to 1600% or fit to screen.
I am like you and preffer zooming to 50% when sharpening for printing.
The new edge sharpen tool in Aperture is really good, the tests I've done are giving me very good results and don't need to go to Photoshop that often now.

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Aperture aliasing issue?

Hi all,
I'm experiencing some aliasing/jaggies artifacts with certain images displayed at less than 50% zoom in Aperture 3. It's very noticeable in split-view and viewer only mode, and is still quite noticeable in full-screen mode. There is no aliasing apparent when the image is zoomed in to 100%. Wasn't 3.1 update supposed to fix this exact issue?
From the update notes: "Rendering of images scaled to below 100% in Viewer"
Here are some screen grabs (focus on the rail):
*Split view*
*Viewer only*
*50% zoom*
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Thanks in advance!

Would love to know if there is a fix/workaround for this issue.
Thanks!

Aperture for iPhoto Users - free online seminar

Among the big questions that come up frequently on this forum (and others) is the how Aperture really differs from iPhoto.
To help get the questions answered, Apple just posted a free online seminar designed to help iPhoto users understand the key differences between Aperture and iPhoto -- and to show you the best ways of using the two applications together. Migrating images from one app to the other is covered in detail.
The seminar is available at:
http://www.seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/aperture15iphoto/apple/index.html?s =203
Hope this is helpful for some of you.
Joe Schorr
Sr. Product Manager, Aperture
Apple

Those were helpful clips. I think the short clips (the tips) could have been a little more informative about the differences, though. No mention of the lack of the Ken Burns effect in Aperture or that zooming in Aperture consists of either full size or zoom-to-fit versus the continuous zoom slider in iPhoto. I miss both of these iPhoto features.

Zoom in-out and rotation in trackpad doesn't work in iPhoto and Aperture. Any solution?

Zoom in-out and rotation in trackpad doesn't work in iPhoto and Aperture. Any solution?

Sound like a trackpad problem and not an iPhoto one. Have you asked in the forum dedicated to the Mac model you're using or is this an add on trackpad?
OT

Quickly zoom photos in Aperture import or browse modes

When viewing photos in the Browser/grid layout of Aperture, or during import from a camera, is there a way to quickly zoom the photo similar to "quick look" in Finder?
I'm not looking to increase the size of ALL thumbnails, nor do I want to spent time loading the image into the editor - just trying to see if I can do a quick zoom on a single photo as I browse through a bunch of thumbnails to see its details in a larger size to see whether it's the photo I'm looking for.
thanks!!
Mark

And, fwiw, note that there is no "editor (mode)" in Aperture. There are several tools to control how your images are presented to you (size, layout, number, distribution across two screens, etc.) -- all of them feature live editing. This is the default.
The "non-edit" mode in Aperture is called Quick Preview. Use the "p" key to toggle this on and off. When on (in Quick Preview mode), Aperture will load only your previews (and all adjustments are disabled). If you are being held back from doing non-editing administrative tasks while waiting for images to load ("Loading" pops up on screen), Quick Preview will do as much to eliminate the delay as anything.
You control the size of your Previews via Aperture Preferences. There are many things which go into making a good choice here, but either "half size" or "fit within {the longest dimension of any of your monitors}", with compression set to 8 or 9, is a good place to start.
Zooming of images while setting up an import seemed to be disabled when the card is in the camera. If you have a card reader, or transfer the images to disk and then import, you should be able to zoom from the import dialog.

Aperture 2.1.4 fails zoom or full screen command

After installing SL, aperture (2.1.4) can no longer zoom (Z) or go full screen (F) without producing a screen full of junk. In addition, the black point compensation button on the print screen causes a severe magenta color shift. All of this worked fine before the OS upgrade.

Thank you for trying to help me with the problem. Let me back up a bit further so that you can better understand my problem. Here are some of the problems:
(1) I had been downloading all my pictures (Nikon D200) into iPhoto. After selecting a few that I would like to make adjustment using Aperture, then only I import versions of it into Aperture. The way I had been importing images is by going into Aperture, go to File show iPhoto, select photos by dragging them into album that I had created in Aperture. Is this the correct way of importing photos from iPhoto into Aperture?
(2) After making adjustments in Aperture recently, the next day I went back into Aperture to see them, all the pictures in the viewer is replaced by " Unsupported Image Format". Why Aperture let me do all the adjustments if this is unsupported image format? It only tell me this, the next day after I had tried to view all the photos with adjustments that were made earlier?
(3) Dozens of adjusted photos (versions) from my albums in Aperture had also disappeared. I had not use the vault in Aperture as yet. The question is where are all my adjusted versions being stored? My Aperture Library is shown to be empty! I thought at the very least, all my versions is stored in the Aperture Library. How do I store versions in this library?
Yes, my workflow may seems convoluted at the moment, using iPhoto as my reference and only dealing with versions in Aperture. The reason for my madness is quite simple ( I thought), I need to understand Aperture really well before importing photos directly into it and bypass iPhoto altogether. With all the problems that I am facing with Aperture at the moment, I am not quite there yet.
All help is greatly appreciated.

Aperture freezing during zoom

Using OSX 10.7.3 and Aperture 3.2.3 on a MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz Core i7 with 4GB ram. When zooming a photo, if I go past 75% Aperture hangs. 2 cores go to 100% and stay there until I force quit the appllication. Images are 4896x3264 JPEG's from a Canon 1D MkiV. RAW images seem to work fine, but I don't always want to work with RAW.
I have tried the basic troubleshooting steps.
Has anyone else seen this issue?

Marc,
does this happen for all your jpegs or only for some? For me zooming with the trackpad works fine.
Have you tried, if the problem is bound to one library by creating a new library and testing zooming there?
Or worked with Aperture from a different user account to exclude faulty preference settings?
Regards
Léonie

Blacks are Clipping in Aperture when zoomed in?

My monitor (iMac 20", last Matte generation) is calibrated using the Huey, and it works great except for this one problem, in which Raw files are displayed with some sort of black clipping when viewed at 100% or full screen size. However, the correct blacks can be seen in the Loupe, here is an example:
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/snwyatt/ApertureProblem1.jpg
I have been plagued by this in every version of Aperture since 1.5.x to the newest, 2.0.1. The problem has been narrowed down to the Huey profile, and how it is read by Aperture, because every other profile (default iMac, manually calibrated iMac, etc) has proper consistency between the all levels of zoom and the loupe.
It doesn't look too bad in these images, but it also leads to harsh gradients and extra noise, which are a hassle to deal with. The images show the proper blacks when exported as a Tiff or other jpeg. And it is not the Raw file format (.cr2), it does the same thing with every Raw format I've thrown at it.
Any suggestions? The colours are spot on with the Huey and I love Aperture, but this issue has been driving me nuts.

2.2 gamma is fine for monitor calibration with Aperture (it's even what Apple/Aperture recommends).
Your problem may be tied into the type of monitor profile you are creating. I had an issue in 2006 with Aperture v1.1.x. It turned out that Aperture was fine with Matrix monitor profiles but it did not like LUT monitor profiles.
When I created a LUT monitor profile then I got shadows blocking up and posterizing in Aperture.
I have not checked to see if this problem was corrected in 10.5 or in Aperture 2.0, possibly not because it sounds like what you are describing.
Here's the thread from last spring:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=469271&tstart=0
As I recall from the time too (in other threads on the forum) there where issues with the Huey that Shea is describing. It only created LUT type profiles and did not have options in its software (Spring, '06) for matrix type profiles.
For example, a MacBeth/X-Rite Eye-one Photo with Eye-one Match 3.6.x gives you the option to output either Matrix display profiles (the default) or LUT display profiles.

Aperture (and entire iMac) hangs brushing adjustments while zoomed in

This problem is almost 100% repeatable on my iMac running Aperture 3.0.3. I've been working on brushing in various details on a photo (mainly blurs, sharpening and some level adjustments) and in some cases I've need to zoom in tightly (200% or more) to get to the detail that I need to adjust. Almost every time I do this eventually the system hangs after trying to brush in the adjustments. It never seems to hang while brushing in adjustments while not zoomed in.
Not only does Aperture hang, but the entire computer hangs. I can't force quit Aperture or anything else. The Dock becomes unresponsive. I do not get the spinning beach ball. All I get is an active mouse cursor. Some background tasks continue to run, but display tasks seem to stop. I suspect that what's hanging here is the video display system, but I haven't seen anything in the Console to confirm that. The only way out is to power down the system and restart it.
Is anyone else seeing this? I don't know if this is related to OS X 10.6.4 or Aperture since this is the first time that I've been zooming in at this level for any adjustments.

Wow - interesting. I haven't seen all of the issues that some of the others in that thread have seen, but my issue is obviously related. It sounds like Apple may have installed a new video driver in the 10.6.4 upgrade which certainly could cause these kinds of issues. Let's hope they get them fixed!

Aperture 3.4.1 Zoom out at 25% not working

Hi,
I just remarked that the Zoom Out at 25% with Aperture 3.4.1 doesn't work any more...the maximum Zoom Out is now fixed to the size
of the window. I'm pretty sure that this worked on Aperture 3.4 though.
While not a big problem, I like to view my photos at smaller size, to see how they look like on small printouts.
Does someone have the same issue with Zoom Out with Aperture 3.4.1?
Cheers,
Gilles

I could not get to work since Aperture 3.4 either. Zoom out now seems to stop, when the image fills the window.
As a work-around, select more than one image in full screen mode, and you can zoom out to 25%.
Or put the image on a Light-Table; then you can zoom out to really small thumbnail sizes.
Regards
Léonie
Four image in Full screen view selected, zoomed in out differently (25%, 25%, 100%, 200%), for example:

Zoom/zoom-out of D800 NEF hangs Aperture

Hi
Just got the D800 yesterday and have imported the first images to Aperture 3.2.3
Import went fairly quick.
BUT - when I zoom in on an image - and then zooms out again, the LOADING message appears and nothing more happens.
When I right-click on the Aperture icon, there is a "program is not responding" message :-(
I tried to export an image to tiff - and that went fine. Also tried to import the tiff back into Aperture - and zoom/zoom-out works fine, even though this file is 240MB, whereas the NEF files is 37MB's.
My machine is a Mac Mini i5, 8GB mem. All software updates are installed.
Any ideas??
BR,
Jesper

Hi Ernie,
The images were not edited prior to the zoom- zoom-out operation.
I made some additional tests:
Before Starting Aperture:
Free Mem 2,30GB
Inactive Mem 2,78
After Starting Aperture:
Free Mem 1,37GB
Inactive Mem 2,81
Zooming in:
Free Mem 923MB
Inactive Mem 2,81
Aperture hangs - and its memory consumption says 1,37GB CPU 199,3%
Hope this makes any sense :-)
BR,
Jesper
The only thing that brings Aperture back to life, is to kill the program.
I was using 14 bit depth NEF's lossless compression. Tried to change that to 12bit lossless. Makes no difference!

Bonjour, je viens de faire la MAJ aperture 3.5.1 et je n'arrive plus à zoomer les photos avec le double-clic de la souris...est-ce normal? merci de vos réponses

bonjour, je viens de faire la MAJ aperture 3.5.1 et je n'arrive plus à zoomer les photos avec le double-clic de la souris...est-ce normal? merci de vos réponses

Hi. I just upgraded to Aperture 3.5.1 and I am unable to zoom pictures [go to the Viewer] by double-clicking [an Image in the Browser] ... is this normal? Thank you for your answers.
Just translating (with Google's help).
No, it's not. Someone may jump in with a suggestion. At the least, close Aperture, reboot, and run Software Update.

Recently, Aperture has been giving me a big white partial box over the main viewer when I zoom in and edit...

I have been using Aperture 3.3.2
It is an 8 month old Mac Book Pro running OS X, and Aperture is about the only thing I use it for. The retouch feature used to be SOOO PAINFULLY SLOW that I took it into the Mac store, and they had to reformat my harddrive & reload everything.. That was due to my PC indexing everything and wouldn't stop. Took a lot of RAM. Maybe this is due to the cup of coffee I spilled over my MacBook a few months ago? I really haven't wanted to admit it, but OK WORLD, IT HAPPENED!
Also, it is crashing a lot when I am editing. Any ideas?

You need to confirm that your hardware is properly functioning. They can do this at an Apple store. Have them check the memory and the drive(s), and ask them to check the CPU/GPU (I don't know if they can).
Once you know that your hardware is good, move on to trouble-shooting your set-up and software.
How much RAM do you have installed? How much free space in on your system drive? Run Safari for a while and see if you have any trouble there.
The white box is (afaik) likely an artifact of your mouse/trackpad cursor. You shoudn't see it.

YEAR VIEW with Lens (Zoom EFFECT)

Hi All,
does anyone know how to get a year view on iCal. It would be so nice to see the whole year on one page.
moreover would it be great to zoom with a lens (like in aperture) in a event.
Sincerly
Robert

there is unfortunately no year view available in ical at the moment.
may i suggest you send your suggestions to apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/ical.html

Why do I get Colored bands on some images in LR4 and LR5, but not in Aperture?

On some images -- both RAW and JPG -- when opened in LR4 or LR5, there will be one or two "curved" color abberation lines across the entire image. This doesn't occur when I open the images in Aperture. Any idea why? Thanks

>Is it possible that Aperture is showing you the camera-embedded JPG by default? What happens if you actually produce a JPG from the raw file in Aperture?
Aperture works the same way as Lightroom in this respect. It will first show you the embedded jpeg and will render a new conversion from the raw data as soon as it can. So it is possible the OP saw the embedded jpeg, but that should not last long and certainly by now should have been replaced with a newly rendered preview. Either Aperture is more forgiving of a small defect in the raw file or Lightroom import is somehow getting corrupt files of the sd card and Aperture not (would be weird). Another option is that the camera raw cache is corrupt. This can be checked by emptying the cache (Preferences->File Handling->Purge Cache). Lastly, this might be a corrupt preview in Lightroom. Check this by zooming 1:1 on an offending area in the Develop module and seeing if it goes away.
>I suspect that the curvature is in fact due to lens corrections, and that these lens corrections are always on
I believe you are right. I remember vaguely that there is some default lens correction with some cameras like this that is independent of the lens correction module. No clue whether the LX7 is one.

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