Quickie: Saving changes in Aperture?

milltown

Hi.

I'm brand new to photo editing/touching and starting out with Aperture on the Mac. I'm using the red eye reduction tool to fix up some family photos and it all looks good on screen but I can't seem to save the photo with the changes made. Whether I export the "version" or the "master", when I open the exported file the red eyes are back. Is there something simple that I'm missing?

The photos are in the iPhoto/Aperture library to begin with and I'm trying to export the finished articles to a folder on the desktop, ready to put on a pen drive so I can bring them to the kiosk in work to make a calendar.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Gregor Samsa

The Master is the file as you imported it into Aperture, so exporting it certainly won't have the red-eye or any other adjustments applied to it. Aperture does non-destructive editing (I'm assuming you're using Aperture 3), so you always have a copy of the original before you did any edits to it. No matter what you do to the photo (unless you use 3rd party plug-ins that are destructive), you can revert back to your Master and start again.

The Version should have your red-eye edits. I'm not in front of my Mac now, so I can't run through the steps, but any time I make edits to a photo, and export from the Version, the resulting file has my edits intact.

I'll take a look when I get home tonight, and post back (unless it's sorted out in the meantime).

milltown

It's started working as I thought it should now, oddly. What seemed to kick it into life was moving onto the next picture, as if it didn't save the latest version until it was closed.

I figured it would be the version, rather than the master, that would have the edits done alright. Thanks for confirming anyway.