I was really excited that Apple finally came up with a new update, Version 3,  for Aperture the . They have added a lot of extra feature that were supposed to be there since long time ago. In Aperture 3, there are very interesting features that will help in organizing albums and folders and enhancing the image work flow like: Face Detection, edge-aware brushes, and presets.

My Experience

Once I installed Aperture 3 using a new trial library , it worked perfectly without any problems. After that, I used an existing library from Aperture 2.  In order to do that you have to upgrade the library to be comparable with the new database. It worked perfectly for me, however, it didn’t work for some users. so please make sure that you have already backed up your files before any installation or testing.once the upgrade is successful, Aperture 3 started doing two things:

1- processing 118 imaged in my database. to be honest I could not find out which files were being processed. So, I left the computer for the whole night and the percentage of the processing when I got up in the morning was 0% …. ??!!

2- face detection that sucked my memory .. used about 2.7 out of 4 physical memory as shown by the Mac’s Activity Monitor.

I had to shutdown the machine physically every time I start Aperture 3…  In order to overcome this issue I had to start Aperture in 32-bit mode as advised by a friend to reduce the memory usage .. then I had to disable the Faces Detection functionality from Preferences and let all 118 thumbnail processing finished .. then I started Aperture 3 again in 64-bit mode ..

Finally, i’m working with Aperture 3 now.. Faces will not work properly unless Apple relaese an update that prevents this from happening