• address frame rate issues occurring in Portal and Team Fortress 2 on certain Macs
• resolve an issue that could cause Aperture 3 or StarCraft II to unexpectedly quit or become unresponsive

Aperture has a nice “Do not import duplicates” feature in the Import dialog, but as you may have noticed, if you rename Masters on import, then this feature no longer works. It relies on matching file names to detect duplicates—so once you’ve renamed your Masters, there’s no name to match.

What is a smart album?

A smart album is a virtual-photo album that automatically updates itself according to a set of criteria you define. The benefit to smart albums is they allow you to quickly access specific groups of photos that are not worth putting into a separate project.

But, I’m here to help with this sort of thing, so I’ll get off my high horse and answer the question already.

First step when I get back from a wedding is to import the images.

I started using Aperture in its first incarnation, but soon replaced it with LR for a while and then went back to Aperture for version 2 and stayed with it since then. I’ve installed the beta of LR3 at the moment because its noise reduction techniques are really working for me (a few images Aperture can’t clean up are given a quick once over again in LR just to be sure).

Anyway.

I have been an ardent user of aperture for years now and got used to the great workflow. Ever since version 1 I have been enjoying working with aperture. It is the workflow that kept me from changing.

I got a new MacPro 12 GB ram, 4TB HDD my library mostly indexed files sits on a raided 2TB for maximum of comfort. I did this in an effort to keep me from writing the posts I writing lately. I do not have the time rally to do this but reality is something different.

Today I am working on a job I need to finish quickly and in aperture workflow manner. So I switched to full screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen mode and after pressing ‘H’ for the HUD my screen started flickering. please look at the video I posted in my flickr account: www.flickr.com/photos/mawas/4719742585/

First, the obvious turn off the Faces feature by removing the check from Aperture > Preferences > General – Enable Faces

While that stops while that will stop Aperture from searching through your entire photo collection for faces, it still doesn’t address the poor overall system performance.

After working with Apple Tech Support, having my case escalated to the development engineers and ultimately exhausting the ideas put forth by the Aperture development team, I “think” I’ve finally got Aperture working reasonably well on my Macbook Pro.