Photo Clash

Ok, so Aperture 1.1 didn’t work with my 12″ powerbook because of the minimum screen size limitation. Aperture requires a screen size at least 1280×780. So I decided to change my workflow application to Adobe Lightroom. Although still in beta 2, Lightroom shows much potential and I liked the way Adobe arranged the interface and menu customization. During the switch, I lost 1GB worth of images taken at the horse race! So I gotta go back there and shoot some more arrgg… I still feel that something is missing in this software, and the noise of images turns out real bad and theres too many parameter in the settings which can be quite complicated. The most annoying part is the zoom and full screen, I can only zoom at original size or zoom to fit display while I cannot zoom at a particular size, also the full screen isn’t really full screen, it still has the border where the menus are hidden. All in all the application was still at an acceptable rate. Until today, I found out that somebody has cracked the screen size here. Well here’s the summary just in case:

1, I’m assuming that you have Aperture 1.0 installed
2, Install 1.1 using Software Update
3, Make a backup copy of Aperture
4, Open Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture in a hex editor.
5, Go to the following offsets (using search) : (format is offset: original –> hacked)
0×93b8: 40 9E 00 88 -> 48 00 00 88
0×9454: 40 9E 00 88 -> 48 00 00 88
0×94f0: 40 9E 00 E0 -> 48 00 00 E0

0×93b8 means when you must type 000093b8 in the search textbox. To replace values, please note that you must highlight 2 characters and start typing, for example to change 40 to 48, highlight the whole 40 and start typing 4 which will show 04 and type 8 which then will show 48 and do this to all the values which needs to be changed.
So here I am using Apple Aperture again. Well 1.1 is great, it has more features and was considered as a major update as it has better support in RAW. Hope this helps.

~ by adityapamungkas on April 27, 2006.