posted May 16th, 2008
Naked light now has Aperture support!
Your Aperture library is accessible from the Aperture collection in your Naked light library. Importing works the same as always—just drag images into your main library, or double click on them to work immediately.
Aperture versions that have adjustments get converted into Naked light compositions, and as such, have composition badges.
Naked light right now only supports a handful of Aperture adjustments—Levels, Exposure, Enhance, Monochrome Mixer, and Dust Removal. I’ll be adding more adjustments as time goes by, but since most of the algorithms behind them are proprietary, there’s no way that I’ll be able to implement all the adjustments with 100% accuracy, so some more tweaking may occasionally be necessary on your part.
Levels and Curves
One small surprise: Naked light needs to convert Aperture Levels adjustments into Curves nodes.
Aperture’s Levels are linear, while Naked light’s Levels, like Photoshop, are gamma-based. Because of this, there’s not a 1:1 relationship between Naked light’s Levels and Aperture’s Levels. Additionally, Aperture allows quarter-tone adjustments. This makes sense with linear levels, but is impossible with gamma levels. Finally, Naked light’s levels currently only supports combined RGB levels, without letting you edit separate channels (this will be fixed soon). Except in rare instances, Aperture Levels just don’t correlate to Naked light Levels.
The current Curves conversion isn’t a perfect match for Aperture Levels, either, but that will be fixed really soon, too, with a Linear interpolation option.
Bugs
Naked light currently doesn’t handle images rotated in Aperture or images flipped in Aperture 2.1.
Get It
You can get Naked light Beta 3.2 from Naked light’s internal software update if you have Beta 3.1, or you can download it here: Naked light Beta 3.2
May 19th, 2008 at 11:43 PM
Wow, I’m really impressed with where things have been going since I have last checked this site. I have to admit that I wasn’t checking it for a while. I am really liking where this program is going (thought the addition of Flickr support is a little passé and off-target for my intended use of Naked Light), but, unfortunately, trying to update the canvas on my system, or open an existing image, causes a big crash and burn for Naked Light on my machine. I will go ahead and send you a bug report about this via email. Besides overall financial stress, there would be one or two reasons why I currently am not “diving” in on the pre-purchase program (which I very much want to do): I’m not feeling the editing potential of the system to an extent yet where I feel like I can put my money behind it. I love the idea, and I would definitely purchase it if I had the opportunity and it did what I needed, but at the moment, editing still feels pretty basic. I’m really looking to be able to replace Gimp with something that does what I need. Right now it seems like all the foundations are there, but not the stuff that makes the difference between my manipulations in Gimp and something else. Maybe something that would help me would be some example tutorials of some sophisticated editing done with Naked Light? That might help my confidence.
Well, that and less crashing. 