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When you installed a newer version of the plug-in but the title of the plug-in's window still shows an older version, this is likely because there is still an older version of the PhotomatixPlugIn.ApertureEdit file somewhere on your hard drive. As Spotlight does not include plug-in files when it searches on your computer, you will have to proceed as follows to find and remove the older version:
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Go to the Finder, and press command+F to open a Search window |
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Click on the double-arrow button named "Kind". |
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Without releasing the mouse, select the "Other..." item located after the separator at bottom of the list that shows below the "Kind" item. |
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On the table that pops up, locate the "System files" attribute and click on it. Then click on the OK button. |
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Make sure that the button to the right of the "System files" button is set to "are included" or "include". |
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In the Search box, enter 'PhotomatixPlugIn.ApertureEdit' (without the quotes) and delete each file with that name. |
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Download and install again the latest version of the Aperture plug-in from the download page. |
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Restart Aperture.
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Does the plugin work in Aperture 3? |
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Yes. The Photomatix Plug-in for Aperture is 64-bit compatible since version 1.1.3 and thus accessible within Aperture 3. If your version of the plug-in is older than v1.1.3, please download the latest version from the download page. |
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Is your plug-in compatible with Mac OS 10.7/Lion? |
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Yes. |
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How does the Aperture plugin differ from Photomatix Pro? |
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The Photomatix HDR plug-in for Apple Aperture offers the following features:
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Merge of bracketed photos into HDR |
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Automatic alignment of bracketed photos |
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Automatic ghosting removal |
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Reduction of noise and chromatic aberrations |
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Tone Mapping with the Details Enhancer and Tone Compressor methods |
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Exposure Fusion with the "Adjust" method |
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The standalone Photomatix Pro offers all above features. It also offers selective deghosting, Loupe preview, read/write support of 32-bit HDR image format, and a powerful batch processing. These features are missing in the current version of the Photomatix Plug-in for Aperture. |
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For more details, you will find a features comparison list of our products here. |
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Do you plan to add selective deghosting and batch processing to the plug-in? |
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We may offer selective deghosting in a future version of the Photomatix plugin for Aperture. Note that the current version of the plug-in includes an option for automatic deghosting. |
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Our plug-in for Aperture is an Edit plug-in, which means it is not suited to batch processing. It may be possible to offer a batch-like functionality with an Export plug-in, but we have no plans for it at the moment. |
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I see you have a new version of Photomatix Pro. When can I expect the Aperture plugin to be updated? |
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The standalone Photomatix Pro and the Photomatix plugin for Aperture are separate products and they are developed separately. Also, Photomatix Pro offers several features that the plugin for Aperture does not have, or does not yet have as further detailed above. This means that the updates of both products are done independently of each other, the same way updates of our plug-in for Photoshop are done independently of updates of the standalone Photomatix Pro. |
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Be ensured, though, that we are committed to update the Photomatix plugin for Aperture on a regular basis. Also, updates to our plugin for Aperture will be free of charge for several years to come. |
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Note that our Lightroom export plugin is very different from our Aperture plugin (there is more details on this below). Our Lightroom plugin only exports to the standalone Photomatix Pro -- it is an auxiliary tool part of Photomatix Pro, which is why it is updated together with Photomatix Pro.
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Why do you charge for your Aperture plug-in while the Lightroom plug-in is free? |
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This question is answered in the Photomatix Pro FAQ here. |
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The colors of my HDR image in the Aperture plug-in look different than in Photomatix Pro, though I processed the same RAW files. |
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When you use an Edit plug-in with RAW files, Aperture will first convert these images to TIFF or PSD in order to enable the plug-in to edit them. This is what the message "Preparing image for output" means. |
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When you process your RAW files directly in the standalone Photomatix Pro, you leave the task to convert the RAW files to Photomatix. RAW conversion is a complex task. It involves color conversion from camera
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If you want to compare results from the standalone Photomatix Pro and the plugin for Aperture, you will have to use the same files as input to HDR tone mapping, which are the TIFF (or PSD) versions exported by Aperture. Note that this is the recommended workflow for Photomatix Pro as detailed here. |
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I already purchased Photomatix Pro. Is there an upgrade path to the Aperture plug-in? |
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Yes. Please see the details here. |
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