Apple has recently released a bug fix update for Aperture. Version 3.5.1 is a free update for all Aperture 3 users. You can get the update here.
Here’s what fixed:
- White Balance now works as expected when using the Temperature & Tint eyedropper tool
- Fixes an issue that could cause the rectangles indicating detected faces to appear incorrectly
- When a metadata field is selected, the cursor now remains active in that field when using the Command and arrow keys to move between photos
- Includes stability improvements
In case you missed it, the 3.5 release also added these features:
- Adds support for iCloud Photo Sharing, including the ability to post videos to shared photo streams and to have multiple subscribers contribute to a shared stream
- The Places feature now uses Apple maps to display photo locations
- New integration with SmugMug, with support for publishing and syncing galleries directly to a SmugMug account
- Adds support for iOS 7 camera filters applied to photos imported from iOS devices
- Fixes an issue that sometimes resulted in Retouch adjustments not being applied to exported images
- Addresses an issue that could cause the black and white points in Curves to shift incorrectly when using the eyedropper tools
- Fixes an issue that prevented caption data from being embedded correctly when exporting versions of some RAW file types
- Improves reliability when adding names to Faces
- Addresses an issue that could cause Aperture to stop responding after adjusting a very large panorama
- Fixes an issue that could prevent memory cards or hard disks from ejecting properly after import when clicking the Delete Items button
- Improves reliability of slideshows on a 15-inch Macbook Pro with Retina display
- Addresses an issue that could cause thumbnails to display incorrectly in the iLife Media Browser
- Videos up to three minutes long can now be shared to Flickr
- Captions instead of version names are now synced between Aperture and Facebook for newly-created albums
- Improves reliability when printing a light table
- Fixes an issue that could prevent adjusted images from being published to My Photo Stream
- Includes stability and performance improvements
Here was our take on the recent update.
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Hate to say it, but the instability I had in Aperture after moving to Mountain Lion, and the amazing $10 a month pricing Adobe offered for Lightroom and Photoshop CC made me jump ship. If this update makes my Aperture Libraries stable, then I can move from managed to referenced libraries – right now, I can’t keep the app open long enough to do that – or import my recent jobs – or export my existing work … Bought Aperture 1.0 off the shelf in an Apple store many years ago, moving to Lightroom was a tough call.