Round tripping to/from Aperture

[billtils]

Being able to add AP as the external editor in Aperture is great - it means that I can continue using Aperture to manage my libraries but use AP for image editing from start to finish, as AP send the edited image back to Aperture.  However, to continue with the "round trip" analogy, the return drops me off at a different (but nearby) station as the edited image goes into a New Project, rather than being added to the originating one.

 

(I know that Pixelmator sends the edited image to the originating Project/Album and have seen a post to the effect that A***e thingy does so too).

 

Also, I'm not clear what the Batch processing function will do when implemented - will it / could it be used to round trip multiple images from a single Aperture project?

 

 

Thanks

[ssq]

I just checked the same, and it works fine - the edited image will be added to (possibly new) the stack. Maybe add automatic stacking to Aperture will do the trick? Also, I used 16-bit tiff file as the bridge between the two, no idea which is best... anyone can advise?

[billtils]

ssq,

 

Thanks for this post, it was very helpful.  I have had a quick look at the function again with somewhat curious results.  If I do the "edit with AP", convert to B&W (as an easy way to check that something has happened) then "share" to return to Aperture, the edited image goes into a new project, but if I save a flattened image in AP before returning to Aperture the B&W edit goes into the originating project.   It works with RAW, jpeg and tiff.