Comments on: Aperture Book Themes, changing the colour scheme

By: Louise

Louise — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:22:02 +0000

I’d like to have the background colors for the Formal Theme available to use in the Stock Book Theme, which only provides a white background. Can you advise if or how this might be accomplished? I want to use Stock Book Theme because it automatically tags the file name for each photo in a nice tiny font, but I’d like to use colored backgrounds to distinguish one section from another in my book.

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By: Kevin Moore

Kevin Moore — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:40:17 +0000

I haven’t re-tested this in Aperture 3.0 but I did very similar modifications to the special occasions theme back in Aperture 1.x with great results. Mr. Bowles is correct, Aperture is just creating a full-bleed PDF document for upload to their book printing service and the proof PDF you get is pretty much dead on WYSIWYG.
It seemed ludicrous to me that Apple wouldn’t (and still doesn’t) give you access to change the color blocks in the Special Occasion theme. In both cases that I’ve used this theme I’d shot a wedding and wanted to coordinate the color blocks in the album with the color palette / theme of the wedding.

By: Samuel Mikel Bowles

Samuel Mikel Bowles — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:33:34 +0000

As I have not actually printed an altered theme I can not stand by what I am about to say but with that disclaimer out of the way I think this should work. Reason being I believe Aperture works by creating a high quality PDF file which is then uploaded to the printer for printing. You should be able to confirm your changes appear in the PDF proof before uploading. I believe Apple is using a pretty straight forward digital printing process which should accommodate any changes that make it through to that final PDF.

By: BenB

BenB — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:23:04 +0000

Have you tried to get one of the altered templates actually printed? Will Apple do that? Will the colors be accurate or off? Sure, you can change anything this way, but is the printing service set up to do these off colors? Has anyone tried?