Monthly Archives: August 2006

four free aperture themes

Posted by on 15Aug06 2 comments

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.

The four are called:

  • Stock Grey
  • StockSub
  • StockSub Black
  • StockSub Grey

(the Sub to show they are used as Subdirectories rather than for the top level)

You can see it in action with a few of my own pictures. For the moment I have resorted to a hand-built top level page, but have a few ideas about how to automate this side of things.

Download the installer.

(Update: a missing / at the start of the download link might have caused problems for some: my apologies if this affected you)

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aperture iptc autocomplete

Posted by on 10Aug06 Comments Off

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.

The answer may lie in the menus, but you can also open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Aperture.plist with the Property List Editor program (it’s a binary plist – convert to and from ASCII and stay on the command line if you wish) it’s trivial to look for the node called iptcProperties.CopyrightNotice.Completions and expand it to show all the values that Aperture uses. Note that simply changing the order (in my case so the index to ‘Ian Spray, 2006′ comes before ‘Ian Spray, 2005′) does not change the lookup behaviour of Aperture, but deleting the 2005 entry sorted things out completely.

(Update: Doh ! Old news: http://www.tow.com/2005/12/16/aperture-and-iview-auto-complete/ but in this case it was faster to find the file myself than Google for a solution)

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