I called mine simply Externally Edited (clever, no?) and that sits at the top of my Library list. Next up, you’ll need a Project in Aperture that’s dedicated to importing these externally edited photos. Many apps won’t read PSD files, so you could just get an error, and you’re not saving back to this format anyway when working with alternative apps, so just keep it simple. Unless you’re sending to Photoshop, you may as well set the filetype to TIFF (8-bit). I also keep that folder in the sidebar, making it quick to get to at any time.Īs you can see above, just click on the Choose button next to External Photo Editor: and then using the handy-dandy External Editors folder set up in the sidebar, quickly navigate to the app you want to use, and click Select. But digging through your entire Application folder can get tedious, so I’ve set up a folder of aliases to the apps I’m using from Aperture. You probably know that to switch editors, you just go to the menu Aperture > Preferences… > Export > External Photo Editor: and choose the one you want. I gave this tip once before, but it’s worth repeating. Setting up Apertureįirst let’s make it easy to switch External editors. Unfortunately it has to add them to a dedicated project, so you’ll need to manually move them to your current project (assuming you want to keep versions together), but otherwise this is quite clean. In brief, you’ll create a dedicated folder for all those “Save as” images, and attach a script to it that will automatically import photos added to that folder into Aperture. If it can, I’ll certainly let you know here. I’ve modified his steps a little as he had an extra step in there, plus I’ve modified for Referenced master users, and added a tip on how to easily switch between External Editors, but other than that he gets credit for this technique.īy the way, this has the potential to get even easier through AppleScript. Reader Jon Parsons of Jon Parsons Photography sent over his workflow which makes this process a lot easier. and the process, while not particularly hard, is just annoying. You now have to “save as…” to some other location, import that into Aperture manually, merge it back to your project, etc. It’s one of those fantastically simple features in Aperture that opens it up to just about any app you like.īut as soon as you can’t simply “save” - as you can’t in Snapseed - that process breaks. The ability to simply “save” means from Aperture you can Open in Editor, (for example Photoshop), do your work then simply save and close the image, and it’s automatically updated in Aperture. The problem with many of these apps for Aperture users however is that they don’t simply “save”, but only “save as…”. The app Snapseed from Nik Software that I mentioned a few days ago is one of those. The App Store is filling up fast with awesome little applications that, like iApps, do just one or two things - but do them really well.
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