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Aperture: Thumbnails in browser are sometimes gray

Sometimes your thumbnails in the browser are shown as outlined gray boxes. If you click on one of the gray thumbnails, the correct image is displayed in the Viewer.

Aperture: Aperture 2.1.4 is required for Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard

If you try to open Aperture 2.0 – 2.1.3 on a computer running Mac OS X v10.6, you will see this dialog:

Aperture 3: Some embedded IPTC metadata may not import from DNG, TIFF, or JPEG images with Mac OS X v10.5

When you import DNG, TIFF, or JPEG images that contain embedded IPTC metadata, some of the metadata does not import: Creator: Address, City, State, Postal Code, Country, Phone, Email, and Web IPTC Subject Code Date Created Intellectual Genre IPTC Scene … Continue reading

Aperture 3: "Write IPTC Metadata to Master" does not write IPTC Core fields to masters on Mac OS X v10.5

When you choose Metadata > Write IPTC Metadata to Masters, any IPTC Core fields you have populated are not written to the master images.

Aperture 3: Contrast edits do not transfer from iPhoto to Aperture 3

Adjustments made to images using the Contrast slider in iPhoto are not preserved in Aperture when the library containing those images is imported into Aperture 3.

Aperture 3: Posterization of images when using Curves adjustments with ATI X1900

When the Curves adjustment is applied to an image, the image exhibits posterization.

Aperture 3: Some Nikon RAW images do not rotate correctly on import when importing RAW+JPEG

When you import RAW+JPEG images from a Nikon camera, RAW images shot in portrait orientation may not be rotated properly but the JPEGs are correctly oriented.

Aperture 3: Regenerate previews to resolve issues with image display

Sometimes images display incorrectly in the Viewer. When this happens it may indicate an issue with the JPEG preview Aperture creates for each image in your library. Regenerating the preview may resolve the issue.

Aperture 3: "Request to the server failed" alert when publishing identical filenames to MobileMe

Publishing to a MobileMe Gallery album sometimes does not complete and shows the alert: "An error occurred while publishing the album ‘your_album_name.’ Request to the server failed."

Apple Magic Mouse: Vertical scrolling and swiping do not work with Microsoft Windows using Boot Camp

When using an Apple Magic Mouse with Microsoft Windows XP or Vista, vertical scrolling and two-finger swiping may not work.