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Apple Releases Aperture 3.1.3

Wednesday July 13, 2011 1:38 pm PDT by Eric Slivka
Apple today continued its parade of software updates ahead of the OS X Lion launch with the release of Aperture 3.1.3, providing a long list of improvements and undoubtedly quietly making some last-minute tweaks to ensure full compatibility with Lion.

This update supports general compatibility issues, and also addresses overall stability and performance. Minor issues addressed include the following:

- Improves reliability and performance when syncing web-published albums
- Slideshow exports are now handled as a background operation
- Crop tool now correctly supports use of gestures to define crop size
- Gesture support can now be enabled or disabled in Preferences
- Fixes an issue that could cause a blank sheet to display when placing a book or print order
- Published MobileMe, Facebook and Flickr albums now appear in a Web section in the Projects Inspector
- Shift-clicking snapshots on the Faces corkboard now allows you to make contiguous selections
- Metadata presets are now correctly applied to imported audio files
- Fixes an issue that could cause Aperture to quit unexpectedly when trimming audio in full screen mode
- Resolves various issues when adding names to Faces using accented, Japanese, Korean or Simplified Chinese characters
- Improves stability when browsing video clips
- Addresses reliability of library repair and rebuild

Full details on the update, which weighs in at 292.02 MB and requires Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later, are available in the release notes.
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kbmb
11 months ago
Seriously....this whole....some updates come through the store, other through Software Update.....is super clunky!

I don't want to have to open the freakin' store just to see if I have an update. SU will check everyday and let me know.

Seems like a step backwards.

-Kevin
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ovrlrd
11 months ago

So you paid $5000 to be able to run a $80 app? Wow!


What is this?

1) My Mac Pro wasn't $5000
2) Aperture wasn't $80 when I bought it
3) I use my Mac Pro for video editing and all sorts of other tasks that justify the power
4) Why would you even post this?

Oh and in response to your other post, Aperture does use the GPU to offload effects processing using Core Image. Though obviously that doesn't help the other stuff you are saying, but I suspect most of that is an I/O bottleneck on your end and not entirely Aperture's fault. The app is definitely not lightweight though, I will give you that, but i've seen it running in latest gen iMacs and MacBook Pros just fine, which is essentially the real recommended specs (Core i5 or better Mac)
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captain kaos
11 months ago

when are they gonna add watermarks for export to flickr, gallery.me.com, facebook, etc?


+1

That really does need to be an option. Im bored of exporting jpegs with a watermark and then uploading those via the frankly annoying flikr uploader.
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txr0ckabilly
11 months ago
when are they gonna add watermarks for export to flickr, gallery.me.com, facebook, etc?
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*LTD*
11 months ago
I love Aperture. I just wish it were a little faster for folks who have large libraries. Otherwise it's great, no complaints.
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boer
11 months ago
Does this update finally fix Faces? That is, do I still have to assing names for some faces again and again and again and ...

Also, does using anything other than ASCII characters for names still mess up Faces?

Yes, I am trying to make a point here, Apple. I have submitted these bugs enough times to get them fixed already!
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ChrisA
11 months ago
Just upgraded using Software Update. The download took 10 or 15 seconds (fiber optic Internet connection) and it runs well in my mid-2011 27" iMac, 12GB RAM installed. I have many thousands of images and they scroll and load effortlessly. The library is on an external 2GB FW800 drive. Most of my images are from a dSLR but many are scans from medium format or larger and some few thousand medium res scans from 35mm film So the image size is from 4MP to 100MP.


Just thought I'd provide one more data point for people.
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Dranix
11 months ago

Still slow in both 32 and 64 bit modes.
I don't know what's wrong with Apple, calling this a PRO application.
It's slowly annoying!


Your GPU sucks apparently :rolleyes:
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Solowalker
11 months ago
For those interested, there are some interface tweaks running it on Lion, including (and especially) proper fullscreen. Yay!
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jpg
11 months ago
Doesn't show up in the German App Store too...

Are there any rumors concerning Aperture 4? I mean I hope they will adopt a 2 year release cycle so maybe it will be ready early next year? Aperture 3 is nice but there is still lots to improve...
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