Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 1:00 PM by Joseph Linaschke Color Emoji Characters in Aperture 3.3 Project, Folder, Album Names
Reader Nathan Smith offered a clever way to include colors in the actual file names of your Projects, Albums, etc. in Aperture. This applies to any version, however in Aperture 3.3 where colors have been removed from the interface, this may be more relevant than ever. His video is embedded below.
Under Mac OS X Lion (it’s a Lion feature only), you can access the same emoji characters that you can in iOS. This is probably largely due to the upcoming ability to send messages between iMessage on an iDevice and the Mac, and so you need those funny characters actually showing up if someone reads their iMessage on a Mac! To access them, just open the Character Palette (usually but not always found under the Edit menu, and called Special Characters), and select Emoji. The Symbols subset is where you’ll find the most basic ones, although you can always add 😄 or 🐵 or 🎅 or 💩 if you really want to.
Oddly, there seems to be a change in the OS since Nathan recorded this video. Now the only easy to find big color circle is the red one 🔴 , however if you search for “circle” you can also find a blue one 🔵 — and you can add these to your Favorites to make them easier to find later. The purple and green ones are gone (from OS X and from iOS). Maybe they’ll return one day?
Emoji characters under Mac OS X Lion
Here’s Nathan’s video.
Reader Comments (4)
Great tip and I used it to put some color back in my AP3.3 last night. Oddly enough some characters don't stay in color after you insert them. The red heart symbol converts to a line drawing after pressing Enter.
Ah, yes. Some symbols in Aperture have manually been overridden. I believe a simple start is also one of them. I'm not sure if there's an easy way to find a complete list though..., but I like this idea.
Perhaps I should preface every project I don't like with 💩 ;)
As I posted in the same thread, you can easily replace the new grey icons with the old colour ones.
Just view package contents on aperture and goto the resource folder.
You could change the icons manually or get the old ones from a time machine backup.
Got everything bak to normal on my install....
Nathan's favoured green circle has a close correspondence in the form of a greenish tennis ball under Emoji>Objects