https://minimal.org.uk/categories/aperture/ Recent content in aperture on minimal.org.uk Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb ian Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:24:51 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2009/08/29/aperture-214-hack/ Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:24:51 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2009/08/29/aperture-214-hack/ Tweak the Info.plist if required in order to remove or reduce the CPU MHz limit, and then open up /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture file in 0xED and jump to the offset 0x6f9a80 and change the text in right hand pane from performRequirementsCheck to performLicenceCheck and then add five hex 0x00 in the left hand pane to make the strings equal length. https://minimal.org.uk/2009/04/19/aperture-213-hack/ Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:47:58 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2009/04/19/aperture-213-hack/ New version – new offset. Things are getting trickier now as I only have one machine that needs this hack, and that doesn’t have a live network connection which slows down the whole process somewhat. Having said that, tweak the Info.plist if required in order to remove or reduce the CPU MHz limit, and then open up /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture file in 0xED and jump to the offset 0x6f7bfc and change the text in right hand pane from performRequirementsCheck to performLicenceCheck and then add five hex 0x00 to make the strings equal length. https://minimal.org.uk/2008/08/04/aperture-211-hack/ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:35:34 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/08/04/aperture-211-hack/ Ok, the offset for this latest update is 0x6f4bf0 – see the original Aperture 2 post for full details. The summary is that you need to hex edit the Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture file so that the string that starts at offset 0x6f4bf0 reads performLicenseCheck and is followed by five zero characters (ie: replace all of the text in the original performRequirementsCheck string). Enjoy. https://minimal.org.uk/2008/05/26/photojojo-aperture-keyboard-skins/ Mon, 26 May 2008 10:06:47 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/05/26/photojojo-aperture-keyboard-skins/ Photojojo – The Fastest Way to Learn Keyboard Shortcuts for Photoshop, Aperture, FCP, and more: http://photojojo.com/content/buy-this/photoshop-keyboard-skins/ This looks interesting: a fairly reasonably priced set of silicon overlays for various Apple laptops and current keyboards (and, for that matter, more than just Aperture). The layouts are tailored for US keyboards, so I sent a message via Photojojo’s feedback page asking if they had any plans for a UK layout Aperture skin for the slim Aluminium keyboard. https://minimal.org.uk/2008/03/28/aperture-21-hack/ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:17:24 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/03/28/aperture-21-hack/ This one isn’t mine: Michal was so quick off the mark I haven’t even downloaded the update yet 🙂 this time performLicenseCheck is @ 6F2B0C Thanks very much for the speedy update ! https://minimal.org.uk/2008/03/05/aperture-201-hack/ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:51:06 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/03/05/aperture-201-hack/ This is pretty much the same as the original Aperture 2 trial hack, but with a different offset for the binary once it’s been installed. Follow the previous instructions but change the offset for the start of the performRequirementsCheck string to be 6dcd44 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/02/27/aperture-world-tour-just-like-the-world-series/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:25:28 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/02/27/aperture-world-tour-just-like-the-world-series/ Update: 09mar08 Ok, fixed. Not sure when this changed, but each city now has its own registration link. I had been going to let this pass, but seeing as there’s no change after three days I think it needs to be at least pointed out… Apple have announced an Aperture World Tour to show off Aperture 2 worldwide. Excellent: they include London, so I’ll click on the Reserve Your Seat link and I’ll book one for myself… https://minimal.org.uk/2008/02/15/aperture-2-trial-hack/ Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:53:05 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/02/15/aperture-2-trial-hack/ Update: 18feb08 My original hack required multiple edits in order to get the program to run, but Michal has found a far better method that just means a single change is required – I’ve reproduced it here from his comments and email so it’s easy to see what to do. Update: 04mar08 At the request of hydr0, I’ve added screen shots of the application to demonstrate what zero-padding is – click on the image to view the whole application window grab if you require more context. https://minimal.org.uk/2007/11/26/aperture-156-hack/ Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:15:50 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/11/26/aperture-156-hack/ Now I haven’t actually got around to trying find these myself: 1.5.4 was working just fine for me and I couldn’t see anything that the 1.5.6 update would give me until I get OS X 10.5 (and that’s not likely until Aperture is properly supported there[1]) but others have found this information and posted them in the old 1.5.2 and 1.5.4 threads, so I thought it would be helpful to make a more Google friendly URL. https://minimal.org.uk/2007/08/10/aperture-154-hack/ Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:32:13 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/08/10/aperture-154-hack/ As with the previous v1.5.3 tweaks, the Info.plist change for CPU speed (and RAM, if your system needs it) was all that was required to enable my ageing 1GHz 12″ PowerBook to run with v1.5.4, but the MDD Dual 867 machine still needed a tweak. The MDD system is now running a supported graphics card (a Radeon 9800, but don’t worry: it was also hacked from the PC variant), so I don’t have any offsets for getting around the video detection code. https://minimal.org.uk/2007/04/19/aperture-153-hack/ Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:16:14 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/04/19/aperture-153-hack/ Update 22apr07: Hex offsets for MDD dual 867MHz now available Ok, things haven’t changed much for machines close to the minimum spec since 1.5.2, so for my 1GHz 12″ PowerBook all I need to edit is the Info.plist file inside the Aperture.app/Contents directory. I changed both the minimum RAM and minimum CPU requirements down to 500MB and 1GHz: <key>AELMinimumRAMSize</key> <string>500</string> and: <key>RKG4LaptopMinimumCPUSpeedMHz</key> <integer>1000</integer> Edit those entries with either a text editor, or the plist editor that comes with the (free) Developer Tools. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/12/12/aperture-152-hack/ Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:02:15 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/12/12/aperture-152-hack/ Update: 15dec06 If you have a PowerBook model with a CPU below 1.25GHz then there’s no need to binary edit this version of Aperture: click on the post title to read the comment from Shane As with all the 1.5 series, this latest update just needs the one change to the binary to function on a 1GHz 12″ PowerBook. The method is the same as for the Aperture 1. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/11/07/four-free-aperture-15-themes/ Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:59:11 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/11/07/four-free-aperture-15-themes/ Not new, but (finally) updated versions of the previous four themes for the new location of the web themes in Aperture 1.5 (and 1.5.1). This version also has a faster installer that simply assumes the program lives in /Applications, and so the whole thing is over in less time than the .dmg file takes to open 🙂 Download the .dmg file https://minimal.org.uk/2006/11/02/aperture-151-hack/ Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:27:08 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/11/02/aperture-151-hack/ It’s update time, which means hacking the minimum requirements again. More details on how to actually change the numbers are in the Aperture 1.5 post and comments, but this time I only seemed to need one change to the binary: 0xb8e8: 40 9E 00 88 -> 48 00 00 88 and the Info.plist minimum memory requirement had to be adjusted down for me as I only have 768MB on the 12″ PB. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/10/14/aperture-15-chroma-blur-pros-and-cons/ Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:44:38 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/10/14/aperture-15-chroma-blur-pros-and-cons/ Aperture seems to have a pretty good set of defaults in the main – it certainly doesn’t get in my way for simple things, but recently I’d been getting upset with the performance of the EOS 350D kit lens (Canon EF-S 18-55mm) where my images just simply looked poorer than I expected. Until recently I’d not been able to use Adobe’s raw convertor, but after a terrible shot of a climbing wall I was really annoyed and on a whim tried the image in PSE3 as well as Aperture. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/10/02/aperture-15-colour-tool/ Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:41:31 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/10/02/aperture-15-colour-tool/ I am completely obsessed with the colour tool in the latest point release of Aperture, but it’s got to the point where I’m not sure if I like the results, or clicking the change button on and off and looking at the before and after results… Have a look for yourself and see what you think. The index pages have some description of the images, but looking at the full page views allows a simple before/after click to see the differences. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/09/30/aperture-15-hack/ Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:22:31 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/09/30/aperture-15-hack/ It seems as though the minimum system requirements are still in force in Aperture 1.5, which means that although 1.25GHz PowerBooks are supported, my dual 867GHz MDD isn’t, which is rather odd. Still, the hack for Aperture 1.1 still works on 1.5, but the offsets have (unsurprisingly) moved a little. Using a hex editor (I found 0xed very useful), try changing the following: 0×0b548: 40 9E 00 88 -> 48 00 00 88 0×0b5e4: 40 9E 00 88 -> 48 00 00 88 0×17390: 40 9E 00 E0 -> 48 00 00 D8 The updated binary has been tested on both an 2GB MDD 867GHz PowerMac and also a 768MB 1GHz 12″ PowerBook, but note that the Info. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/09/22/why-not-to-delete-blurred-photos/ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:16:37 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/09/22/why-not-to-delete-blurred-photos/ Being a total Aperture convert, I’ve been amusing (?) myself over the summer trying to get 18,000 or so photos into something like a useable state, but being scattered over 4 hard drives and two computers (with no one drive having enough space for them all, of course) has been an exercise in watching progress bars moving GB of data around. As part of all this I’m correctly tagging, naming and rating images as I get a logical group together, and many images that look good on camera, and occasionally on screen just don’t hold up in terms of sharpness when examined at 1:1, so they’re being classed as Rejects from within Aperture, meaning they effectively vanish from all normal views of my photos. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/08/15/four-free-aperture-themes/ Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:57:09 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/08/15/four-free-aperture-themes/ Update 07nov06: Note that the download here is only for Aperture versions up to (and including) 1.1.2 The location of the themes is different for Aperture 1.5, so view the updated post if you’re using 1.5 or 1.5.1. Well, more variations than true themes, but if you have Aperture I have add a new Stock theme which has a grey background, and also created versions that have a link to a parent directory in the theme itself so it’s a little easier to get at least a one level deep gallery out of the program. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/08/10/aperture-iptc-autocomplete/ Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:16:57 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/08/10/aperture-iptc-autocomplete/ If you are using Aperture and are going through a large collection of older images it’s very nice being able to add IPTC Copyright entries during import. The auto-complete is very handy too, as most of mine have been in a few distinct locations and the saving on typing is very easy to get used to, but I found a problem when I came from adding a load of images from 2005 into 2006: the auto-complete works on an ASCII ascending match rather than most recently used, so by default my Copyright was coming out as ‘Ian Spray, 2005’ which was annoying to correct. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/07/10/minimalist-gallery/ Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:05:15 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/07/10/minimalist-gallery/ After far too long leaving my gallery languishing, it’s now been reborn in a very bare fashion: using (at the moment) Lightroom to caption and edit, and the rather simple to config JAlbum to build the images I have knocked up a mostly CSS (yes, the tables will be going) design that apes the Stock theme from Aperture. Why ? Because it shows the images as the main focus of interest. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/01/11/os-x-1044-and-canon-eos-350d-raw-files/ Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:03:57 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/01/11/os-x-1044-and-canon-eos-350d-raw-files/ As has already been noted, OS X 10.4.4 now supports non-US EOS 350D cameras: I’ve confirmed the European variant, and TK has commented that the Japanese model is also supported. Greg Tebbut sent me an extract of the Raw.plist file, which shows that simple name based aliasing of cameras has now been addressed: <key>Canon-EOS Kiss Digital N</key> <string>Canon-EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT</string> <key>Canon-EOS 350D DIGITAL</key> <string>Canon-EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT</string> <key>Canon-EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT</key> So that’s good news for the future, but what about the decoding ? https://minimal.org.uk/2005/11/01/make-os-x-1043-understand-canon-eos-350d-raw-files/ Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:38:34 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/11/01/make-os-x-1043-understand-canon-eos-350d-raw-files/ Update 11jan06 @ 11:33 OS X 10.4.4 is now available, and fixes this problem. Update 03nov05 @ 12:04: Right, Phil Chapman appears to have sorted out the correct codes for 350D support by utilising values from the Canon PowerShot G6 entry in the Raw.plist file, so rather than post a new entry I’m updating this one so that it shows correct and useful information (the downloadable file has also been updated).