Apple Aperture - 3.0 User Manual

Aperture 3

User Manual

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Welcome to Aperture13Preface

About Aperture13 About the Aperture Documentation14 Additional Resources15

An Overview of Aperture17Chapter 1

A First Look at Aperture18 Creating Projects and Importing Your Photos19 Photo Editing with Aperture24 Image Processing42 Sharing44 Sharing Images with iLife and iWork Applications50 Backing Up Your Work50

The Aperture Interface53Chapter 2

The Aperture Main Window54 Browser55 Viewer59 Tool Strip59 Inspector Pane61 Toolbar69 Control Bar71 Full Screen View72 Projects View79 Faces View81 Places View84 Slideshow Editor86 Light Table94 Webpage Editor95 Book Layout Editor102 Heads-Up Displays106 Quickly Accessing Commands111

Working with the Aperture Library113Chapter 3

Basic Components of Aperture113 Working with the Library Inspector121 Working with Library Files131 Working in Projects View136

Importing Images145Chapter 4

An Overview of Importing Images145 File Formats You Can Import into the Library146 Planning Your Import Strategy147 Importing from Your Digital Camera or Card Reader149 Importing Image Files Stored on Your Computer or Connected Servers153 Adding Additional Import Options157 Importing Images from the Finder via Drag and Drop168 Capturing Images as You Work169 Importing Folders of Images from the Finder170 Importing Images from iPhoto171 Importing Masters for Referenced Images into Folders175 Where Aperture Stores Your Managed Files in the Library177 Adding Audio Attachments to Image Files178 Reprocessing Images from Previous Versions of Aperture180

Working with Images in the Browser183Chapter 5

An Overview of the Browser184 Navigating Through and Selecting Images186 Working with Images in Filmstrip View188 Working with Images in Grid View189 Working with Images in List View191 Choosing a Workspace View194 Navigating Through Images in Quick Preview Mode195 Searching for Images in the Browser196 Rearranging Images in the Browser198 Sorting Images199 Rotating Images199 Creating Versions of an Image200 Deleting Images from the Browser201 Dragging Images into Different Projects and Albums203 Renaming Master Image Files203 Working with Referenced Images204 Working with Two or More Browsers Open211 Working with Stacks in the Browser212 Using the Loupe to Check the Focus of Images in the Browser212

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Displaying Specific Metadata with Your Images213

Displaying Images in the Viewer217Chapter 6

An Overview of the Viewer218 Showing and Hiding the Viewer221 Changing the Viewer Background222 Changing the Number of Images in the Viewer222 Comparing Images223 Viewing Stacks224 Viewing Images with the Loupe224 Viewing Images at Full Resolution230 Viewing Master Images231 Listening to Audio and Viewing Video in the Viewer232 Displaying Metadata Associated with Images236 Viewing Images on Multiple Displays236 Showing Hot and Cold Areas in Your Images238 Setting Up the Viewer for Onscreen Proofing239 Working with Preview Images239

Viewing Images in Full Screen View249Chapter 7

An Overview of Full Screen View249 Entering and Exiting Full Screen View252 Working in Viewer Mode in Full Screen View253 Working in Browser Mode in Full Screen View256 Working in Projects Mode in Full Screen View257 Using HUDs in Full Screen View258 Changing the Display of Metadata in Full Screen View260

Stacking Images and Making Picks263Chapter 8

An Overview of Stacking Images263 Creating Stacks265 Working with Stacks267

Rating Images273Chapter 9

An Overview of the Aperture Rating System273 Rating Images275 Sorting Images by Rating277 Including Image Rating in Your Workflow279 Comparing and Rating Images281

Applying Keywords to Images283Chapter 10

An Overview of Keywords283 Viewing Keywords Applied to Images286 Applying Keywords Using the Keywords HUD289

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Applying Keywords Using Keyword Controls and Keyword Presets296 Applying Keywords Using the Lift & Stamp HUD301 Applying Keywords Using the Metadata Inspector305 Applying Keywords to Images in the Light Table306 Removing Keywords from an Image307 Exporting and Importing Keyword Lists307

Working with Metadata309Chapter 11

An Overview of Working with Metadata309 Displaying Metadata with Your Images316 Viewing and Changing Metadata in the Metadata Inspector and Inspector HUD324 Working with the AutoFill Editor328 Working with Metadata Views329 Working with Metadata Presets333 Batch Changing Metadata336 More Information About IPTC Metadata337 Understanding Badge Overlays339 Adjusting Image Date and Time342

Organizing Images with Faces343Chapter 12

An Overview of Faces343 Adding Names to Faces in Your Images347 Viewing Images in Faces View349 Searching for Images by Face352 Creating Smart Albums with Images of People353

Locating and Organizing Images with Places355Chapter 13

An Overview of Places356 Controls in Places View360 Working with Location Information in Places View360 Importing and Working with GPS Track File Data375 Assigning Location Information to Projects377 Working with Location Information in the Metadata Inspector379

Searching for and Displaying Images387Chapter 14

An Overview of Searching388 About the Search Field Pop-Up Menu388 About the Filter HUD392 Searching by Rating396 Searching for Flagged Images397 Searching by Color Label398 Searching by Image Name, Caption, or Other Text399 Searching by Keyword401

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Searching by Adjustments402 Searching by Aperture Metadata403 Searching by Attachment404 Searching by Calendar405 Searching by Date407 Searching by EXIF Information407 Searching by Face408 Searching by File Status409 Searching by File Type410 Searching by Import Session411 Searching by IPTC Information412 Searching by Photo Usage414 Searching by Place415 Searching by a Combination of Criteria416 Searching Across the Entire Library417 Saving Your Search Results417

Grouping Images with Smart Albums419Chapter 15

An Overview of Smart Albums419 Collecting Images in a New Smart Album421 Searching Within a Smart Album424 Revising the Contents of a Smart Album424 Transferring Smart Album Images to Another Project or Album425 Deleting a Smart Album426

An Overview of Image Adjustments427Chapter 16

Adjustments in Aperture428 Using the Adjustment Controls430 Using the Brush Controls438 Working with Adjustment Tools in the Tool Strip439 Performing Adjustments in Full Screen View439 Applying Adjustments to a Group of Images440 Applying the Same Adjustment to an Image Multiple Times443 Working with Adjustment Presets444 Removing Adjustments452 Using Modifier Keys to Identify Color Clipping453 Using the Color Meter and Displaying Camera Information456 Using an External Editor459 Working with the RAW Fine Tuning Controls460 Understanding How to Read Histograms469 About Making Adjustments Onscreen472

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Making Image Adjustments473Chapter 17

Working with the Retouch Controls474 Working with the Red Eye Correction Controls479 Working with the Spot & Patch Controls485 Working with the Devignette Controls495 Working with the Straighten Controls497 Working with the Crop Controls499 Working with the Flip Controls504 Working with the White Balance Controls504 Working with the Exposure Controls507 Working with the Enhance Controls513 Working with the Chromatic Aberration Controls525 Working with the Noise Reduction Controls527 Working with the Highlights & Shadows Controls528 Working with the Curves Controls538 Working with the Levels Controls554 Working with the Color Controls565 Working with the Black & White Controls572 Working with the Color Monochrome Controls573 Working with the Sepia Tone Controls574 Working with the Sharpen and Edge Sharpen Controls575 Working with the Vignette Controls580

Making Brushed Adjustments585Chapter 18

An Overview of Brushed Adjustments586 Controls in the Brush HUD589 Brushing Adjustments In591 Brushing Adjustments Away593 Applying Quick Brush Adjustments594 Working with Brushes596 Working with the Skin Smoothing Quick Brush Controls605 Working with the Dodge Quick Brush Controls607 Working with the Burn Quick Brush Controls608 Working with the Polarize Quick Brush Controls609 Working with the Intensify Contrast Quick Brush Controls611 Working with the Tint Quick Brush Controls612 Working with the Contrast Quick Brush Controls613 Working with the Saturation Quick Brush Controls615 Working with the Definition Quick Brush Controls616 Working with the Vibrancy Quick Brush Controls618 Working with the Blur Quick Brush Controls619 Working with the Sharpen Quick Brush Controls620

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Working with the Halo Reduction Quick Brush Controls621 Working with the Noise Reduction Quick Brush Controls622

Printing Your Images625Chapter 19

An Overview of Printing625 Print Controls in the Print Dialog626 Printing Images and Contact Sheets in Aperture646 Printing a Book653 Printing a Light Table Arrangement653 Creating and Modifying Print Presets654 Proofing Your Images Onscreen655 Turning Off Color Management in Your Printer656

Exporting Your Images657Chapter 20

An Overview of Exporting Images658 Exporting Copies of Masters659 Exporting Image Versions660 Exporting Audio and Video Versions661 Exporting Projects, Folders, and Albums663 Working with Export Presets664 Exporting Images into Folders in the Finder673 Renaming Images at Export675 Exporting Metadata Listed in a Separate File678 Exporting Using Plug-ins679 Exporting Images to Use in Email679 Exporting by Dragging680

Creating Slideshow Presentations683Chapter 21

An Overview of Slideshows683 Playing Slideshows Using Slideshow Presets684 About Creating Slideshows with the Slideshow Editor693 Workflow for Creating a Multimedia Slideshow Presentation694 Creating Slideshow Albums695 Changing a Slideshow’s Theme698 About Editing Slideshow Transitions and Applying Effects699 Modifying Settings Applied to the Entire Slideshow700 Modifying Individual Slides and Transitions707 Adding Music and Audio to Slideshows717 Viewing Your Slideshows in Aperture728 Sharing Your Slideshow Movies729

Using the Light Table731Chapter 22 An Overview of the Light Table732

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Creating a Light Table Album733 Placing and Viewing Images in the Light Table734 Moving and Resizing Images in the Light Table736 Aligning and Arranging Images in the Light Table737 Adjusting the Light Table View740 Printing Light Table Arrangements741 Deleting a Light Table Album741

Creating Books743Chapter 23

An Overview of Creating Books744 Planning Your Book746 Creating a Book Album747 Controls in the Book Layout Editor749 Choosing a Theme749 Viewing Pages750 Placing Images in a Book752 Adding and Removing Pages755 Working with Pages761 Working with Images765 Working with Text775 Working with the Layout Options Inspector780 Working with Master Pages781 Working with Custom Themes784 Copying a Book Album785 Printing Books786 Ordering Books from Third-Party Print Vendors Using Plug-ins786

Creating Webpages789Chapter 24

An Overview of Creating Webpages789 Creating Web Galleries and Web Journals790 Viewing and Navigating Through Webpages794 Choosing and Modifying Themes795 Working with Web Gallery Pages796 Working with Web Journal Pages797 Exporting Webpages800 Working with Web Export Presets803

Sharing Your Images Online809Chapter 25

An Overview of Sharing Images810 Publishing Images to Your MobileMe Gallery812 Publishing Images to Flickr and Facebook820 Working with Multiple MobileMe, Flickr, and Facebook Accounts829 Disabling and Enabling MobileMe, Flickr, and Facebook Accounts829

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Backing Up Your Images831Chapter 26

An Overview of the Backup Workflow831 Planning Your Backup System832 Controls in the Vault Pane834 Creating Vaults835 Updating Vaults836 Disconnecting a Vault’s Hard Disk Drive from Your System Temporarily837 Reconnecting a Vault’s Hard Disk Drive to Your System837 Deleting a Vault Permanently838 Restoring Your Aperture System838 Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library839

Customizing the Aperture Workspace841Chapter 27

Changing Main Window Layouts841 Setting Aperture Preferences842 Customizing the Toolbar850 Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts851

Calibrating Your Aperture System859Appendix A

An Overview of Color Management859 Calibrating Your Camera862 Calibrating and Profiling Your Display863 Calibrating and Profiling Your Printer864

Setting Up an Aperture System867Appendix B

Setting Up a Basic System868 Optional Equipment to Consider869 Setting Up Your System with Two Displays870 Configuring Mac OS X for Multiple Displays871

875Glossary

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Welcome to Aperture

Aperture is a powerful and easy-to-use digital image management system that can track thousands of digital images and provides the avid photographer with high-quality image management and adjustment tools.

With Aperture, you can efficiently import digital images, perform a photo edit, adjust and retouch images, publish images for the web or print, export libraries for use on other Aperture systems, merge libraries, and back up your entire image library for safekeeping. Aperture lets you work with high-quality JPEG, TIFF, and RAW image files—and even HD video files—directly from your camera or card reader and maintain that high quality throughout your workflow.

This preface covers the following:

• About Aperture (p. 13)

• About the Aperture Documentation (p. 14)

• Additional Resources (p. 15)

Preface

About Aperture

Designed for the needs of professional photographers, Aperture is a photo editing and management tool that provides:

• An advanced RAW workflow: From capture to output, you can work with your images captured as RAW files, without having to first convert them to another format before viewing, adjusting, organizing, or printing them. Aperture supports RAW formats from leading digital camera manufacturers, including Canon and Nikon.

• Flexible imagemanagement: An open library structure letsyou store photos, audio clips, and video clips anywhere you want. You can have Aperture store image, audio, and video files in the library or simply link to the files in their current locations. You can also have Aperture link to your iPhoto library without copying the images into the Aperture library. Aperture can work with photos stored on any number of hard disk drives and other storage media. You can catalog and search for images that are stored on multiple hard disks, including offline volumes, CDs, and DVDs.

• Professional project management: Aperture allows you to manage thousands ofprojects and provides flexible organizational tools, comprehensive metadata support, and powerful search tools that let you find files instantly. You can export any part of your library, make changes to it on a second Aperture system, and then merge it back into the library of your primary Aperture system.

• Nondestructive image processing: Designed to protect your images from the moment they’re imported, Aperture identifies your original images as digital “masters” and has built-in safeguards to help ensure thatyou don’t accidentally overwrite or modify them.

• Versatileprinting and publishing: Working directly with your RAW images,you can create color-accurate prints, custom contact sheets, stunning websites, and unique bound books with tools that are intuitive and powerful.

• Robust backup: Beginning at import, you can set Aperture to automatically back up copies of your image files. You can also use the Vault pane of the Library inspector to manage multiple vaults (containing copies of the Aperture library), which can then be stored in offsite locations, protecting your library of image assets in the case of a catastrophic event.

About the Aperture Documentation

Aperture comes with various documents that provide detailed information about using the application.

• Aperture 3 User Manual: This comprehensive document describes theAperture interface, commands, and menusand gives step-by-step instructions for creating Aperture libraries and for accomplishing specific tasks. It is written for users of all levels of experience. The Aperture 3 User Manual is available in Aperture Help (in Aperture, choose Help > Aperture Help).

Note: This manual is not intended to be a complete guide to the art of photography. Much of the photography-specific information presented here is very general in nature and is supplied to provide a context for the terminology used whendescribing Aperture functions.

• Exploring Aperture: This document provides a quick introduction to the main features of Aperture. A PDF version of the printed Exploring Aperture manual is available in Aperture Help.

• Aperture 3 Keyboard Shortcuts: This document provides keyboard shortcuts you can use to perform tasks in Aperture. A PDFversion of the printed Aperture 3 Keyboard Shortcuts card is available in Aperture Help.

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Additional Resources

Along with the documentation that comes with Aperture, there are a variety of other resources you can use to find out more about Aperture.

Aperture Websites

For general information and updates, as well as the latest news on Aperture, go to:

• http://www.apple.com/aperture

For a list of online video tutorials, go to:

• http://www.apple.com/aperture/howto

For a list of online resources, including third-party training materials, go to:

• http://www.apple.com/aperture/resources

Apple Service and Support Websites

For software updates and answers to the most frequently asked questions for all Apple products, go to the general Apple Support webpage. You’ll also have access to product specifications, reference documentation, and Apple and third-party product technical articles.

• http://www.apple.com/support

For software updates, documentation, discussion forums, and answers to the most frequently asked questions for Aperture, go to:

• http://www.apple.com/support/aperture

For discussion forums specific to Aperture, where you can search for an answer, post your question, or answer other users’ questions, go to:

• http://discussions.apple.com

To provide comments and feedback about Aperture, go to:

• http://www.apple.com/feedback/aperture.html

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An Overview of Aperture

Aperture is designed to be the center of your digital photography workflow, from capturing new images to the final delivery of professional-quality photographs. You can also use Aperture to organize your audio and video clips for use with multimedia slideshow presentations, share photos with social networking websites, and publish photos on your personal website.

This chapter provides an overview of how Aperture works and what you can do with it. However, this chapter doesn’t provide all the detailed information and instructions needed to perform work on your images. If you’re new to Aperture, thischapter is for you. If you’re familiar with the Aperture features and interface, feel free to skip this chapter. Once you’re familiar withAperture, you’ll find in-depth explanations and instructions in later chapters.

This chapter covers the following:

• A First Look at Aperture (p. 18)

• Creating Projects and Importing Your Photos (p. 19)

• Photo Editing with Aperture (p. 24)

• Image Processing (p. 42)

• Sharing (p. 44)

• Sharing Images with iLife and iWork Applications (p. 50)

• Backing Up Your Work (p. 50)

A First Look at Aperture

Toolbar

Projects view

Your projects appear here in the Library inspector.

Click here to open the Import pane and Import browser.

Tabs for the Library inspector, Metadata inspector, and Adjustments inspector

When you first open Aperture, you see the following areas:

Note: Because you can customize the toolbar, adding and deleting buttons and controls, your toolbarmay look different from the one pictured in this manual. Formore information about changing the toolbar, see Customizing the Toolbar.

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After you import images into projects, your screen will look similar to this:

Your project’s thumbnail images

Aperture imports the images into a project. Click the project to see its images in the Browser.

About the Aperture Sample Library

The Aperture installation disc includes a sample library with several projects containing high-resolution images. You can import the sample library into your existing Aperture library from the Aperture installation disc at any time after installing the application.

Creating Projects and Importing Your Photos

To use Aperture, you first import your photos. You can import digital photos directly from your camera or a card reader and from hard disks or other storage devices where you’ve archived digital files. After a shoot, you can connect your digital camera or card reader to your computer and Aperture automatically detects it. You can then easily import your new images into Aperture.

Aperture automatically imports any audio attachments associated with your image files, provided they have the same filename. In addition to importing photos into Aperture, you can also import QuickTime-compatible audio and video files.

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Creating Projects

Folder

Project

Albums

As you work with Aperture, you create projects to hold your images. A project is similar to a folder that can hold dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of images. For example, after completing a shoot of a foot race in Antarctica, you might create a new project named Antarctica and import the photos into it. When you need tofurther subdivide and organize images in a project, you can create albums.

Your new project appears in a list in the Library inspector.

As your portfolio increases and you create more and more projects, you can organize your work into hierarchies of folders, projects, and albums.

You can create as many projects as you need and name them according to any naming scheme you prefer. It’s important to name projects so that they are easy to identify and access.

Over the long term you may be using Aperture to track years of projects, so you’ll want to develop a naming system that is easy to use and understand. For more information about organizing your images in projects and albums, see Working with the Aperture

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Viewing Projects in Projects View

Projects view

Aperture organizes the images in your library using projects. Projects view provides a convenient way to visually review the projects in your library. When you select Projects in the Library inspector, the Aperture main window switches to Projects view. Each project is represented by a single image, but you can move the pointer over each project to reveal all the images in the project in succession.

You can choose one image per project to appear as the “key photo” when reviewing your projects in Projects view. You can also have Aperture group the projects according to either the year the images were taken or the folder each project resides in.

For more information about Projects view, see Working in Projects View.

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Working with the Aperture Trash

Deleted images are placed in the Aperture Trash until you empty it.

Library item in the Aperture Trash

As you delete versions, masters, projects, folders, and albums in Aperture, they are placed in the Aperture Trash. The Aperture Trash acts as a container of final review. When you empty the Aperture Trash, its contents are removed from Aperture.

For more information about working with the Trash,see Working with the Aperture Trash.

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Importing Images with the Import Browser

When you click this button, your images are imported into the selected project or a new project.

Specify import options here.

Select your camera, card reader, or computer hard disk here.

When you connect a digital camera or card reader to your computer, the Import pane and Import browser appear.You canselect your camera or card reader and see the images you’re about to import. You can select and import all the images or only those you want. You can also select image files on your hard disk for importing.

After you select the images you want to import, you can specify options for importing your images. For example, you can specify that your imagesbe imported into the Aperture library file in the Pictures folder, or you can choose another location in which to store them. If you have images already stored on a hard disk, you can simply allow Aperture to access them without changing their current location. You can choose how images are named and include other information that is recorded with each image to help identify it. For example, you can specify the event name, date, time, photographer, location, and copyright information.

You can also specify other import options, such as whether you want Aperture to group related images together in stacks. For example, if you have bracketed images or images shot in quick succession, you can have Aperture import these images and stack them together to make reviewing and working with them easier.

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Importing Files from Your Body of Work

You can easily import your collection of archived digital images into Aperture from any hard disk or storage device connected to your computer. When importing legacy images from your portfolio, you can move them into the main Aperture library, or you can simply identify where the images are located, and Aperture adds themto its managementsystem without changing the image locations. This means that you can use Aperture to work with your images in their current organization and on multiple hard disks, without relocating or reorganizing your files. You can also move or copy images to new locations when needed.

Aperture can also import your iPhoto library and files stored in a variety of common file types and formats, including:

• DNG

• GIF

• JPEG

• PNG

• PSD

• RAW files from a variety of supported digital cameras

• TIFF

Note: For a list of supported digital cameras, go to http://www.apple.com/aperture/specs.

In addition to importing digital image files, Aperture can also import any QuickTime-compatible media file, such as an audio or video file. For more information, see Importing Images.

Photo Editing with Aperture

Aperture allows you to easily view and work with your images onscreen. It provides easy-to-use tools and controls, as well as efficient methods for rating images, searching for images, and comparing and adjusting images.

Viewing and Working with Images

To work with your images, you select a project in the Library inspector and Aperture displays that project’s images in the Browser. You use the Browser to review, organize, and select images. You can display the Browser only or display the Browser and a Viewer that shows images in detail.

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When you select a thumbnail image in the Browser, the image appears in the Viewer.

The Viewer displays the selected image.

Select images here. A selected image appears with a white outline.

The Browser can display your images as thumbnails arranged as a row in a filmstrip or as a grid of thumbnails appearing in rows and columns. You can click an individual image to select it, and a white border appears around the image. To quickly move to and select other images, press the arrow keys. You can drag images to rearrange them in the Browser, or drag them into different projects or albums. You can also display your images as a list of files.

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If you want to work with your images in detail, you can view them in Full Screen view.

Filmstrip available in Full Screen view

Toolbar available in Full Screen view

The displayed image fills the screen.

To see images in Full Screen view, press F. Press F again to exit Full Screen view.

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In Full Screen view, you can change the display of images to show single images, three

Image thumbnails shown in the Full Screen view Browser mode

images, or up to twelve images at once. You can also set Full Screen view to show your images in three modes: Viewer, Browser, and Projects. Viewer mode displays your images at high resolution, allowing you to work with an image in fine detail while applying complex image adjustments. Browser mode is similar to theBrowser in the Aperture main window, in that it provides controls for searching for and sorting thumbnail images. To switch between the Full Screen view Viewer mode and Browser mode, press V.

While in Browser mode, you can enter Projects mode by clicking the Projects button at the top-left corner of the screen. Projects mode provides the same controls as the Projects view in the Aperture main window, but the thumbnail images representing projects are placed over a solid background. To view the thumbnails for a project in Browser mode, double-click the project’s thumbnail image.

Displaying your images clearly and accurately is a pivotal function of Aperture. Aperture allows you to take advantage of the latest display technology and view and work with your images in Full Screen view and on multiple displays.

Using Aperture with two displays is ideal for creating a large workspace. You can easily compare and adjust images, play slideshows, and present the best of your photos at optimal size during client reviews.

For more information about using Full Screen view, see Viewing Images in Full Screen

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Using Multi-Touch Trackpad Gestures with Aperture

If your portable computer has a Multi-Touch trackpad, you can use Multi-Touch trackpad gestures when working with Aperture. For example, when working with images in the Browser, you can use the rotate gesture to rotate images and the swipe gesture to select a different image. In addition to using the standard trackpad gestures used with Mac portable computers, you can also use Multi-Touch trackpad gestures with the following Aperture features.

Multi-Touch trackpad gesturesFeature

Browser in grid view

• Use the pinch gesture to change the size of thumbnails in the Browser.

• Use the rotate gesture to rotate the image beneath the pointer.

• Use the swipe gesture to select a different image.

Browser in list view

Browser in filmstrip view (Split View layout) and filmstrip in Full Screen view (Viewer mode)

Light Table

Book Layout Editor

Slideshows

Loupe tool

Crop tool

• Use the pinch gesture to change the size of thumbnails in the Browser.

• Use the swipe gesture to select a different image.

• Use the pinch gesture to change the size of thumbnails in the Browser or the filmstrip.

• Use the rotate gesture to rotate the image beneath the pointer.

• Use the swipe gesture to select a different image.

• Use the pinch gesture to zoom in to or out of the Light Table or to change the size of the image beneath the pointer.

• Use the pinch gesture to zoom in to or out of the selected page or resize the object beneath the pointer on the page. (The Edit Layout button must be selected to resize objects on the page.)

• Use the rotate gesture to rotate objects. You can also hold down the Shift key as you use the rotate gesture to restrict rotation to 15-degree increments.

• Use the swipe gesture to change pages.

• Use the swipe gesture to display the next or previous slide during a slideshow.

• Use the pinch gesture tochange the Loupe size. (As with previous versions of Aperture, you canalso use thescroll gesture tochange the Loupe magnification.)

• Use the pinch gesture to create a crop selection and change its size.

For more information about working with a Multi-Touch trackpad, see Mac Help.

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• Use the rotate gesture to change the amount of image rotation.Straighten tool

Working with Heads-Up Displays

Inspector HUD showing the Adjustments pane

To work efficiently in Aperture, you can use floating windows of controls called heads-up displays (HUDs) to modify images. For example, when you view images in Aperture in Full

Screen view, you can open an Inspector HUD to adjust your images. Holding down the Shift key while performing an adjustment temporarily hides the Inspector HUD, giving you an unobstructed view of your image as you adjust it.

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As you work on your images, you can position HUDs anywhere on the screen and use

Drag a keyword from the Keywords HUD to apply it to an image.

Keywords HUD

them to make changes. For example, Aperture provides a Keywords HUD that you can use to quickly assign keywords to your images. To assign a keyword, you simply drag it from the Keywords HUD to the image.

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Working with Inspectors

Inspector tabs

Metadata inspector

Stars indicate the rating.

X indicates a rejected image.

Aperture provides a Library inspector for organizing your photos, audio clips, and video clips; an Adjustments inspector for applying adjustments; and a Metadata inspector that allows you to review metadata and assign it to your images. You can show or hide each inspector by clicking the appropriate tab at the top of the Inspector pane or pressing the W key. Showing the inspectors is as easy as pressing the I key.

Rating Images with Aperture

You can rate images as you review them in the Viewer, in the Browser, and in the Full Screen view Viewer and Browser modes. By selecting an image and pressing a number key from 0 to 5, you can quickly give the image a rating from one to five stars (with five stars being the highest, or Select, rating). You can also rate an image as rejected by pressing the 9 key. Image ratings appear as easy-to-read overlays on the image. Controls for assigning ratings also appear in the Metadata inspector and the control bar, if you prefer to use them.

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Once images are rated, you can have Aperture display only images of a certain rating, so

The Filter HUD is set to show video files.

Click the Filter HUD button to open the Filter HUD.

you can focus on a particular group of images. For more information about rating your images, see Rating Images.

Finding and Displaying Images with the Filter HUD

You can use the Filter HUD to search for and display only certain photos in a project or album. Click the Filter HUD button beside the search field in the Browser, and the Filter HUD appears. In the Filter HUD, you can specify a combination of search criteria to locate the photos you want to work with.

You can enter any search criteria to display specific images. You can also display images based on rating, color label, date when shot, keywords, applied adjustments, flagged status, or import group. After you specify the search criteria, Aperture displays only those images that match the criteria and hides the rest. For more information about searching for images, see Searching for and Displaying Images.

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Comparing Photos

The compare image appears outlined in green.

Aperture allows you to carefully compare images. You select a “compare” image, and Aperture displays it for comparison against other images in a selection.

While comparing images, you can rate the selected images or makeadjustments to them. For example, you might use the comparison method to make final selections of the best images ina series. Or, you mightcompare two versions of an image and make adjustments.

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Stacking Images

A stack with three images is shown expanded.

The Stack button indicates the number of images in the stack.

Only the pick image is shown when the stack is closed.

Photographers frequently work with large selections ofimages. To help you work efficiently with a series of shots, such as bracketed shots or shots taken in quick succession, Aperture can automatically stack related shots. You can also select and manually stack related shots yourself and review them for a “pick,” the image that you intend to use.

Once photos are in a stack,you can work with the stackas if it were a single image instead of many individual photos. A stack appears as a series of linked photos in the Browser. The pick of the stack appears on the left with a Stack button. You can drag an image in the stack into the pick position. By clicking the Stack button, you can close the stack so that only the pick image appears. You can then work with the single pick image without the encumbrance of the other stacked photos. You can expand a stack to see all its images whenever you like.

Working with stacks can greatly increase the efficiency of reviewing large collections of photos. For more information about working with stacks of images, see Stacking Images

and Making Picks.

Assigning Keywords to Images

For any photographer who needs a means to easily locate specific images among thousands, the careful assignment of keywords is critical. Applying keywords is also required if you plan to sell images to image libraries, such as iStockphoto orGetty Images.

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You can use Aperture to assign keywords to images using standard IPTC fields (the

Keywords and other metadata

standard metadata fields defined by the International Press Telecommunications Council). You can also select images and assign keywords that you define.

You can display images in the Viewer with their version names and any assigned keywords appearing on or below the image.

The Keywords HUD lists all the keyword categories and keywords that you define. For example, if you shoot weddings, you might create a wedding category with specific keywords that include Candid, Ceremony, Guests, and so on.

You can apply a keyword directly to a selected image or group of images by dragging it from the Keywords HUD to the selection in the Viewer or Browser.

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You can also show keyword controls in the control bar at the bottom of the Aperture

Name button

Assign the face a name using the face label.

main window by choosing Window > Show Keyword Controls.

Using these simple controls, you can display different categories of keywords and easily apply those keywords with a quick click or keystroke.

Your Aperture keyword scheme can ensure comprehensive accessibility to your images and even help with the management of your copyrights, usage rights, and sales. Formore information about assigning keywords, see Applying Keywords to Images.

Organizing Photos of People with Faces

As your library of images grows, it’s difficult to keep track of who’s in each image. Instead of meticulously adding keywords to each image to identify the people in it, you can use Faces, the face detection and face recognition technology included in Aperture, to identify and track people throughout all the images in your library. All you have to do to get started is select an image with a person in it, click the Name button in the toolbar, and assign the face a name; Aperture then automatically locates other suggested images of that person in your library.

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People to whom you’ve assigned names are represented by snapshots in Faces view,

Faces view

which is accessed by selecting Faces in the Library inspector or selecting an item in the Library inspector and then clicking the Faces button in the toolbar. Selecting Faces in the Library inspector displays the faces of all the people in images in the library who have been assigned names. Selecting an item in the Library inspector and then clicking the Faces button in the toolbar displays the faces of all the people in the images in that selected item.

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You can view allof the images in your library in which a personappears by double-clicking

Faces browser

the person’s snapshot in Faces view. All the confirmed images of the person appear in the Faces browser. Aperture compares this face with other faces in your library and then offers suggested matches for you to confirm or reject. As you confirm suggested images, the images move up to the group of confirmed images above.

For more information about identifyingpeople in your images using Faces, see Organizing

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Locating Your Images on a Map with Places

Places view

The location badge indicates that location information has been assigned to the image.

In Aperture, you can use Places to organize your images by the locations where they were taken. If you have a GPS-enabled digital camera or iPhone, Aperture categorizes the images bylocation and converts the GPS location tags to place names, such as Vancouver, Canada. You can explore where your images were shot using the Places view.

If your images were notcaptured with a GPS-enabled camera or iPhone, you can manually enter location information for single photos or entire projects. Add locations to your photos by typing the name of a place, entering an address, placing a pin on the map, or dragging images to a specific location on the map. Then, when you want to find photos you shot in New York City or the Grand Canyon, just type the place name in the search field.

For more information about using Places to organize your images by location, see Locating

and Organizing Images with Places.

Automatically Grouping Images with Smart Albums

Photographers often need an easy way of regrouping and presenting images based on the needs of a client or project. For example, a corporate client might call to request images of a general location or subject, such as wildlife, to be included with future collateral. Aperture allows you to make selections from across the entire library of images and group them in Smart Albums, which are albums that can be dynamically generated based on search criteria you specify.

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Aperture comes with a selection of predefined Smart Albums set up in the library. For

Library Smart Albums

example, there are Smart Albums that gather all your select images, all images taken in the last week, and all images taken in the last month. When you click the Library Albums disclosure triangle, you see the list of Smart Albums created for you. Select a Smart Album to see its contents in the Browser.

Although a Smart Album appears similar to the other projects or albums in the Library inspector, the contents of the album are specified by search criteria. You don’t import masters or versions into a Smart Album. You use the Smart Settings HUD (similar to the Filter HUD) to specify the image keywords or other criteria that identify the images you want, and image versions automatically appear in the album. By adjusting the search criteria, you change the contents of the Smart Album.

For example, after creating a new Smart Album in the Library inspector, youmight specify that you want any image that has the keyword My family and the location Yosemite assigned to it, along with a rating of five stars.

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Aperture searches across the library and displays all the five-star images of your family

In the Smart Settings HUD, specify the search criteria for images you want in the Smart Album.

on vacation in Yosemite National Park. If you’re planning another trip with your family to Yosemite, any images that match the Smart Album’s search criteria will be added automatically to the Smart Album in the future.

You can work with the images in the Smart Album just as you can with images in any other album.

You can make Smart Albums that gather images from across the entire library or from within a specific project only. When you no longer need a Smart Album, you can delete it, and the contents of the library remain the same (the Smart Album’s images are not deleted from the library). For more information about using Smart Albums, see Grouping

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Image Processing

Aperture provides a powerful set of nondestructive adjustment controls that allow you to improve and enhance your images using adjustments such as Crop, Straighten, Exposure, White Balance, Levels, Curves, Vignette, and more. In addition, Aperture lets you apply or remove adjustments selectively, affecting only certain parts of an image, by using brushed adjustments.

For especially efficient image adjusting, you can save adjustment settings as presets (collections of saved settings) and apply a combination of image adjustments to one or more images in a single step.

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You can adjust your images using the controls in either the Adjustments inspector or the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD.

The controls in the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD are the same as those in the Adjustments inspector. You can also easily export yourimages to a third-party application, and then bring the adjusted image back into Aperture simply by saving it. First you select the third-party application in the Export pane of the Preferences window, and then you export the image you want to make additional adjustments to by choosing Photos > Edit with External Editor. For more information about working with an external editor, see

Using an External Editor.

For detailed information about making adjustments to your images, see Making Image

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Sharing

Slideshow album Slideshow playhead

Slideshow Editor

When it’s time to show your work to others, Aperture provides many options for distributing and sharing your images. For an overview of the main methods, see the following sections:

• Presenting Images in Slideshows

• Reviewing Images in the Aperture Light Table

• Publishing Images in Web Galleries and Web Journals

• Sharing Images with Facebook, Flickr, and MobileMe

• Presenting Images in Books

• Printing and Exporting Images

Presenting Images in Slideshows

You can use the Slideshow Editor in Aperture to make slideshow presentations for clients or friends. Using one or two large-screen displays, you can set Aperture to present slideshow images in a variety of ways. Forexample, you can present a sequence of images that dissolve into each other, or you can set Aperture to apply a Ken Burns effect to each image. You can also customize your slideshow by setting the display interval, choosing accompanying music, using transitions between images, changing the background, adding video clips, and more. Once you have perfected your slideshow, you can export it asa movie and shareit with clients andfriends via email,YouTube, or your own website.

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You can also create a slideshow by selecting the images that you want to show in the

Light Table

Light Table album

Browser and then choosing File > Play Slideshow. For more information about creating slideshows, see Playing Slideshows Using Slideshow Presets.

Reviewing Images in the Aperture Light Table

You can use the Aperture Light Table to freely arrange and organize a group of images visually to see how various groups of images work together. Or, you can arrange a group of images and print them in specific arrangements. When viewing a selection of images in the Light Table, you can drag the images into any position or arrangement you like and resize them to determine how they might look grouped on a page.

For more information about using the Light Table, see Using the Light Table.

Publishing Images in Web Galleries and Web Journals

To provide friends, family members, or clients the convenience of an online review, you can use Aperture to create webpages that display your images. With Aperture, you can easily post your webpages to your MobileMe account, or you can post them to your own website server and then provide the Internet address to clients or other reviewers.

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Aperture provides ready-made themes and webpage layouts that you can use for the

The new album you created appears in the Library inspector.

The Webpage Editor appears with the selected images.

design of your pages.

To create webpages that present a gallery of your images, you create a webpage album, choose aWeb Page theme, and then use theWebpage Editor to design your pages. When you place images in the album, Aperture automatically populates your webpages with your images.

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You can also create a web journal, which allows you to mix text and images on the

Facebook album

webpage. For example, you might create a web journal that chronicles your latest trip and include your photos. You create web journal pages by creating a web journal album, choosing aWeb Journaltheme, and then using the WebpageEditor to design your pages. For more information about creating web galleries and web journals, see Creating

Webpages.

Sharing Images with Facebook, Flickr, and MobileMe

Tokeep your friends up to date, you can use Aperture to share your images with Facebook, Flickr, and MobileMe.

To share your images with Facebook, you create a Facebook album and enter your Facebook account details. As youdrag images into the Facebook album, Aperture converts names you’ve added to your images using Faces to Facebook name tags. When you post the new photos to your Facebook page, any friends whose Facebook accounts you have entered into Aperture automatically receive notifications of photos in which they are tagged.

Similarly, you share your images with Flickr by creating a Flickr album and entering your Flickr account details. As you drag images that have location data created using Places into the Flickr album, those images are shared on your Flickr set’s page and placed on Flickr photo maps.

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You can also automatically publish your images from Aperture to your MobileMe Gallery. To share your images with your MobileMe Gallery, you create a MobileMe album and specify its publication settings. You can drag images to your MobileMe album, and Aperture automatically publishes the images to your MobileMe Gallery based on the publication settings you specified.

Images published from Aperture to Facebook, Flickr, and MobileMe can be added, removed, and edited using Aperture. Aperture automatically updates your Facebook albums, Flickr sets, and MobileMe albums online.

If you regularly add new Facebook albums, Flickr sets, and MobileMe albums to your online accounts using a web browser or mobile device, you can click the Sync button next to the Facebook, Flickr, or MobileMe account in the Library inspector, and Aperture automatically retrieves the new albums you posted online and places them in the Library inspector. When you click the Sync button next to a Facebook, Flickr, or MobileMe album in the Library inspector, Aperture automatically retrieves any new media from the corresponding album or set online and downloads the new media into the Facebook, Flickr, or MobileMe album.

For more information, see Sharing Your Images Online.

Presenting Images in Books

You can lay out images and combine them with text to create books. Aperture provides a Book Layout Editor that allows you to easily combine your images with text on the page. Aperture also provides master templates that you can use to compose pages. You can create professional-looking pages for photo essays, art books, wedding albums, journals, and more.

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You create a book by creating a book album and using the Book Layout Editor to design

Place images in your book and design pages using the Book Layout Editor.

Book album

the book’s pages.

In the Book Layout Editor, you select a page’s thumbnail image to see an enlarged view of the page’s layout and contents. You can also change the page design, and the current page is automatically updated to the new format. To add an image, you drag it from the Browser into a photo box on the page. For more information about creating books, see

Creating Books.

Printing and Exporting Images

You can easily print individual images in standard and custom print sizes and print collections of images on contact sheets. Aperture has many preset printing options to help you create photo packages.You canalso customize printsettings to get the optimum use of your printer and meet custom print requirements. For more information about printing options, see Printing Your Images.

When you need to deliver digital files to clients, prepare files for posting on websites, or transfer files to other computers or users, you can export images in a variety of formats. You can export your original masters as well as versions that you’ve created. Aperture provides many preset options for exporting files in a variety of file sizes and formats, and you can add custom touches such as watermarks or copyright information. When you export images, you can assign custom filenames and export all or a selection of the metadata associated with an image. For example, you can send an editor a digital file complete with the IPTC information you’ve added. Aperture also enables you to quickly email images. For more information about exporting images, see Exporting Your Images.

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Sharing Images with iLife and iWork Applications

The Aperture library is accessible from within iLife and iWork applications so you can easily share and use your photos in iLife and iWork projects and documents. You can also import your entire iPhoto library into Aperture, or you can open the iPhoto Browser in Aperture and review and select iPhoto images that you want to import. Any adjustments or metadata applied to your images in iPhoto are preserved and canbe edited in Aperture. All Faces and Places information is preserved as well. iLife and iWork applications can export documents in Aperture-compatible formats that can be imported into Aperture and associated with projects.

For more information about copying your images from iPhoto to Aperture, see Importing

Images from iPhoto.

Backing Up Your Work

After importing images from your camera and erasing memory cards in preparation for the next shoot, the only record of your images is stored on your hard disks. It’s vital that you back up your files on storage media separate from your computer and its hard disks. Backing up your photos and storing the backups in a safe place can save your work from catastrophes such as fire, theft, storm-related disruptions, or equipment failure.

Aperture backs up your managed images (images that are stored in the Aperture library) and allinformation associated with the images, such as versions, metadata, and previews, on vaults located on hard disk drives. Aperture doesn’t back up the masters of referenced images located outside the Aperture library. You must maintain your own backup system for referenced masters. Aperture does back up the versions, previews, and metadata information associated with referenced images, but not the masters themselves.

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You can set Aperture to automatically create backup copies of your images during import.

Disclosure triangle

Vault Status button

Vault Action pop-up menu

Update All Vaults button

Vault Pane button

After importing, you can back up the managed images in your library to one or more vaults. Then, you can monitor your backup system by viewing your vaults in the Vault pane. There are several controls that you use when you update vaults to back up your images.

You can create multiple vaults to provide duplicate backups. Each vault holds a backup copy of the entire Aperture library. Once the images are backed up, you can depend on the reliable Aperture backup functions to track all the versions of your photos and the work you have done with them.

For an explanation of the Aperture backup and archiving features, see Backing Up Your

Images.

For more information about creating backup copies of your images during import, see

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The Aperture Interface

The Aperture interface is modeled around managing, editing, and presenting photos.

This chapter describes the names and functions of the Aperture interface elements. Use this chapterto orient yourself while learningAperture. Tofind detailed information about the features described in this chapter, read the chapter about the topic. You can also search for terms associated with Aperture in the glossary.

This chapter covers the following:

• The Aperture Main Window (p. 54)

• Browser (p. 55)

• Viewer (p. 59)

• Tool Strip (p. 59)

• Inspector Pane (p. 61)

• Toolbar (p. 69)

• Control Bar (p. 71)

• Full Screen View (p. 72)

• Projects View (p. 79)

• Faces View (p. 81)

• Places View (p. 84)

• Slideshow Editor (p. 86)

• Light Table (p. 94)

• Webpage Editor (p. 95)

• Book Layout Editor (p. 102)

• Heads-Up Displays (p. 106)

• Quickly Accessing Commands (p. 111)

The Aperture Main Window

Toolbar

Browser

Viewer

Inspector pane

Vault pane

The Aperture main window contains the following areas:

Note: The Inspector pane is shown by default. You can show or hide the Inspector pane by pressing I.

Arranging the Interface

Aperture provides many ways to view your images. You can arrange the Aperture main window in the Browser,Split View, and Viewer layouts. The areas inthe Aperture interface

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are resizable, and you can customize these layouts to suit your workflow. You can also view images by the people in them using Faces view, and by the locations where they were captured using Places view. In addition, you can view your images in Full Screen view, which displays images against a solid background with only a few interface elements.

To see the main window layout shown above, click the Split View button in the toolbar.

For more information about changing the main window layout, see Changing Main

Window Layouts.

Browser

Grid View button

List View button

Filmstrip View button

The Browser displays the thumbnail images contained in a folder, project, or album. When you select a folder, project, or album in the Library inspector,images appear in the Browser. You can display images in the Browser in filmstrip view, in grid view, and in list view. You can also open multiple projects at a time in the Browser.

To learn more about using the Browser, see Working with Images in the Browser.

• Filmstrip View button: Click this button to display images as a single row of thumbnails that you can scroll left or right.

Note: The Browser’s filmstrip view is available only in the Split View main window layout.

• Grid View button: Click this button to display images as a grid of thumbnails.

• List View button: Click this button to display images as a text list.

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Browser in Filmstrip View

Sorting pop-up menu

Shuttle control Scroll bar

Search field

Filter HUD button

Filmstrip View, Grid View, and List View buttons

When the Browser is in filmstrip view (available only in the Split View main window layout), images in a selected project appear as a row of thumbnails. You can scroll the images left and right and quickly select and work with them one after the other. You can resize the thumbnails in the filmstrip by dragging the top of the filmstrip to enlarge it.

• Sorting pop-upmenu: Sort your images by a variety ofsort properties using this pop-up menu. You can also sort your images in ascending or descending order.

• Filmstrip View, GridView, and List View buttons: Display the Browser contents in filmstrip view (a scrollable row of thumbnails), grid view (a grid of thumbnail images), or in list view (a list of sortable file data).

• Filter HUD button and search field: Search for images by entering a term in the search field or choosing an option from the search field pop-up menu (with a magnifying glass icon). To perform a more complex search for images using the Filter HUD, click the Filter HUD button (to the left of the search field).

• Scroll bar: Use the scroll bar to scroll through your thumbnail images.

• Shuttle control: Use the Shuttle control to move quickly throughyour thumbnail images. You can also press the J and L keys to scroll backward or forward, and press K to stop. Press the J and L keys multiple times to increase the shuttle speed.

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Thumbnail Resize slider

Sorting pop-up menu

Search field

Shuttle control

Scroll bar

Filter HUD button

Filmstrip View, Grid View, and List View buttons

Browser in Grid View

When the Browser is in grid view, images in a selected project appear as thumbnails arranged in columns and rows within the Browser. You can adjust the size of the thumbnails to easily review and work with your images.

• Sorting pop-upmenu: Sort your images by a variety ofsort properties using this pop-up menu. You can also sort your images in ascending or descending order.

• Scroll bar: Use the scroll bar to scroll through your thumbnail images.

• Thumbnail Resize slider: Use the Thumbnail Resize slider to quickly change the size of your thumbnail images.

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Search field

Shuttle control

Scroll bar

Thumbnail Resize sliderColumn headings appear

in this row.

Sorting pop-up menu

Filter HUD button

Filmstrip View, Grid View, and List View buttons

Browser in List View

When the Browser is in list view, images in aselected project appear as rows of information. Metadata associated with each image appears in columns; click a column heading to sort the images by that column category.

• Sorting pop-upmenu: Sort your images by a variety ofsort properties using this pop-up menu. You can also sort your images in ascending or descending order.

• Column headings: Columns display image information and metadata. You can click a column heading to sort the list by that category of information. You can also drag to reorder or resize the columns.

• Scroll bar: Use the scroll bar to scroll through your thumbnail images.

• Thumbnail Resize slider: Use the Thumbnail Resize slider to quickly change the size of your thumbnail images.

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Viewer

Display controlsSelection and adjustment

controls

Tool strip

When youselect one or more thumbnail images in the Browser,those images aredisplayed in the Viewer. You can use the Viewer to examine an image at its full size or compare multiple images side by side.

To learn more about using the Viewer, see Displaying Images in the Viewer.

You can apply adjustments, keywords, and metadata to an image in the Viewer. You use the display controls in the tool strip to set how images are displayed in the Viewer. For example, you usethe display controls to display images at full resolution, display metadata with images, display the masters that versions are based on, display the primary image selection only, and display preview images (optimized JPEG images) only.

For information about individual display controls, see Tool Strip.

Tool Strip

Use the tools and display controls in the tool strip to work with images in the Viewer and Browser. The controls in the tool strip change depending on whether or not the Viewer is shown. When both the Browser and Viewer are shown in the Split View layout, the tool strip is shown between them.

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Lift toolRotate tool

Selection tool

Stamp tool

Red Eye toolCrop tool

Quick Brush pop-up menu

Straighten tool

For more information about working with theadjustment tools, see An Overview of Image

Adjustments, Making Image Adjustments, and Making Brushed Adjustments.

Selection and Adjustment Controls

Use these controls to select and adjust images.

Note: The following adjustment controls are available only when the Viewer is shown: Straighten tool, Crop tool, Red Eye tool, and Quick Brush pop-up menu.

• Selection tool: Select projects, albums, and images with this tool.

• Rotate tool: Rotate an image counterclockwise with this tool. Press Option while using this tool to rotate images clockwise. You can use this tool to rotate an image displayed in the Viewer or Browser.

• Lift tool: Copy a set of metadata and adjustments, including cropping and straightening settings, from a selected image with this tool.

• Stamp tool: Apply a copied set of adjustments or metadata on one or several images with this tool.

• Straighten tool: Use the guides to help manually straighten (or level) the selected image.

Note: This button is available only when the Viewer is shown.

• Crop tool: Trim the selected image with this tool.

Note: This button is available only when the Viewer is shown.

• Red Eye tool: Reduce red-eye, occurring when the subject’s retinas reflect light from your camera’s flash, with this tool.

Note: This button is available only when the Viewer is shown.

• Quick Brush pop-up menu: Choose a Quick Brush adjustment from this pop-up menu. For more information about working with Quick Brush adjustments, see Making Brushed

Adjustments.

Note: This pop-up menu is available only when the Viewer is shown.

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Display Controls

Quick Preview button

Show Master button

Zoom Viewer button

Primary Only button

Metadata Overlays pop-up menu

Use the display controls to manage how images are presented in the Browser and Viewer. The Show Master and Zoom Viewer buttons are available only when the Viewer is shown.

• Zoom Viewer button: Click this button to switch between viewing an image at actual size and fitting the image to the Viewer’s screen size.

Note: This button is available only when the Viewer is shown.

• Metadata Overlays pop-up menu: Choose to show image metadata as overlays in the Viewer and Browser, switch metadata views, show metadata tooltips, and access the Browser & Viewer Metadata dialog from this pop-up menu.

• Show Master button: Click this button to view the master image without any applied adjustments. Click again to switch the view back to the current version.

Note: This button is available only when the Viewer is shown.

• Primary Only button: Click this button to make changes to the primary image selection only.

• Quick Preview button: Click this button to view preview images only. Viewing preview images speeds up access to and display of images in the Viewer and Browser.

Inspector Pane

The Inspectorpane provides easyaccess to your library,to image metadata, and to controls for adjusting images. The Inspector pane includes three inspectors: the Library inspector, the Metadata inspector, and the Adjustments inspector. Click the tabs at the top of the Inspector pane to open the inspector you want.

To show the Inspector pane

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To switch tabs in the Inspector pane

Library tab

Adjustments tab

Metadata tab

Choose View > Inspector > Next Tab (or press W).

• Library tab: Click this tab to open the Library inspector. For information about controls in the Library inspector, see Library Inspector.

• Metadata tab: Click this tab to open the Metadata inspector. For information about controls in the Metadata inspector, see Metadata Inspector.

• Adjustments tab: Click this tab to open the Adjustments inspector. For information about controls in the Adjustments inspector, see Adjustments Inspector.

Library Inspector

The Library inspector holds containers—projects, folders, and albums—you can use to organize your images. When you select a project, folder, or album in the Library inspector, the images are displayed in the Browser and Viewer. You can create Smart Albums that automatically find and store images based on search criteria you specify. You can also create webpages (photo galleries and online journals), Light Table arrangements, slideshows, and books, and you can share images with MobileMe, Flickr, and Facebook.

The Library inspector also provides a number of ways to view items in the library. You can use the Library inspector to access Projects view, Photos view, Faces view, Places view, and Flagged view. You can also view items moved to the Aperture Trash. To learn more about using the Library inspector, see Working with the Aperture Library.

The Import pane and the Vault pane are also displayed in the Library inspector. For more information, see Import Pane and Vault Pane.

To display the Library inspector

Do one of the following:

Click the Library tab in the Inspector pane (or press Control-P).

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Press Q.

Library Action pop-up menu

Search field and pop-up menu

Import pane

• Search fieldand pop-up menu: Enter text to search for item names, project descriptions, and place and face information within items in the Library inspector. Items that don’t match the search text are excluded from view. Choose to show all items, your favorite items, or just recently selected items by choosing an option from the search field pop-up menu.

• Library Actionpop-up menu: Add and remove favorite items, export items, and maintain previews using this pop-up menu.

Import Pane

The Import pane displays a list of connected cameras, connected card readers, and your computer. To import images into Aperture, you select your computer in the pane or connect a camera or card reader, and the images appear in the Import browser. For more information, see Importing Images.

To display the Import pane

Do one of the following:

Choose File > Import > Files (or press Command-I).

Click the Import button in the toolbar.

The Import pane displays the locations from which you can currently import images—your computer and connected cameras or card readers. Select a camera or computer icon and then select images to import in the Import browser.

Vault Pane

The Vault pane lists your backup vaults and their locations. Vaults are usually located on external hard disks.

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As you add images to the library, Aperture automatically tracks which managed images

Vault disclosure triangle

Vault Status button

Vault Action pop-up menu

Update All Vaults button

Vault Pane button

have been backed up to your vault. When your vault is up to date, the Vault Status button appears black. When a change to at least one version occurs, such as an adjustment, the Vault Status button appears yellow. When Aperture determines that even a single master has not been backed up, the Vault Status button appears red. You can have Aperture update your vaults whenever you want.

For more information, see Backing Up Your Images.

To display the Vault pane

Do one of the following:

Choose Window > Show Vaults (or press Shift-R).

Click the Vault Pane button.

• Vault disclosure triangle: Click this button to show or hide the location of the vault file.

• Vault Status button: Click the Vault Status button next to a vault to update the vault. The Vault Status button changes color to indicate the current update status of the vault. Black means the vault is up to date. Yellow means that changes have been made to images that have not been backed up. Red means that images have been added to the library that have not been backed up.

• Vault Action pop-up menu: Use this pop-up menu to add, remove, and update vaults, as well as restore your library.

• Vault Pane button: Click this button to show and hide the Vault pane.

• Update All Vaults button: Click this button to update all vaults that are online. The Update All Vaults button changes color to indicate the current update status of the vaults. Black means that all vaults are up to date. Yellow means that changes have been made to images that have not been backed up. Red means that images have been added to the library that have not been backed up.

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Metadata Inspector

The Metadata inspector displays an image’s caption text, keywords, version number, filename, and file size. You can also viewExchangeable Image File (EXIF) and International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) data associated with an image. EXIF metadata is embedded in an image file by the digital camera and includes camera settings such as shutter speed, date and time, focal length, exposure, metering pattern, and flash information. IPTC information can be embedded in a digital image with most software programs used to edit photos, including Aperture, and can include a caption, the place and date a photo was taken, and copyright information.

In addition to working with IPTC metadata, you can apply color labels, ratings, and flags to an image selection, as well as create custom metadata fields for use in Aperture. You can also view and add location information for use with the Places feature. For more information about controls used in Places view, see Places View.

Note: Location controls are not available in the Metadata pane of the Inspector HUD.

To display the Metadata inspector

Do one of the following:

Click the Metadata tab in the Inspector pane (or press Control-D).

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Press W repeatedly to cycle through the inspectors until you see the Metadata inspector.

Metadata View pop-up menu

Metadata Action pop-up menu

Camera Info pane

Map Pane Action pop-up menu

Map Pane button

• Camera Info pane: Displays basic camera information for a selected image, basic file information about aselected audio clip, or basic file information about aselected video clip. The Camera Info pane also contains controls for applying color labels, ratings, and flags to images. If an image has an audio attachment, a Play button appears at the bottom ofthe Camera Info pane. For more information about playing audio attachments, see Viewing and Changing Metadata in the Metadata Inspector and Inspector HUD.

• Metadata View pop-up menu: Choose the metadata view that is displayed in the Metadata inspector from this pop-up menu.

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• Metadata Action pop-up menu: Choose options for appending and replacing the metadata in an image from this pop-up menu. You can also access the Metadata and Batch Changedialogs, remove IPTC metadata, update the EXIF metadata in the image’s master file, show or hide the CameraInfo pane, and addand remove audio attachments using this pop-up menu.

• Map Pane button: Click this button to open and close the Map pane. The Map pane displays a smaller version of the Places view map with many of the controls found in Places view.

• Map Pane Action pop-up menu: Select, edit, and delete locations, create new locations, and change map views from this pop-up menu.

Adjustments Inspector

You can use the controls in the Adjustments inspector to apply, edit, and remove image adjustments. Controls in the Adjustments inspector are grouped according to the type of image adjustment they perform. You can show or hide the controls for an adjustment by clicking its disclosure triangle.

To remove an adjustment from an image, deselect the checkbox for the adjustment. For more information about using adjustment controls,see An Overview of ImageAdjustments and Making Image Adjustments.

Tip: Although you can apply initial adjustments using the Adjustments inspector, it’s often more convenient to use the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD in Full Screen view. For more information, see Viewing Images in Full Screen View.

To show the Adjustments inspector

Do one of the following:

Click the Adjustments tab in the Inspector pane (or press Control-A).

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Adjustment Action pop-up menu

Adjustments

Reset button

Presets pop-up menu

Histogram

Adjustments pop-up menu

Press W repeatedly to cycle throughthe inspectors untilyou see the Adjustments inspector.

• Presets pop-up menu: Choose an adjustment preset to apply to a selected image. Aperture comes with a set of presets. If you frequently use the same adjustment parameter settings, you can save those settings as adjustment presets. Once you apply a preset to an image, the adjustment controls and parameter values update to reflect the settings saved in the adjustment preset.

• Adjustments pop-up menu: Choose the adjustments you want to apply to an image, including Quick Brush adjustments, from this pop-up menu. When you choose an adjustment, its controls appear in the Adjustments inspector.

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• Histogram: Displays the selected image’s luminance or color channels. The histogram displays a graph of the brightness values in the image, from the blackest point to the whitest point. You can adjust the histogram to show luminance; red, green, and blue (RGB) channels displayed together; or separate red, green, and blue channels.

• Adjustment Action pop-up menu: Choose a histogram view, remove selected or all adjustments applied to an image, and choose whether to display color and camera information below the histogram. You can also choose the type of color values and the sample size from this pop-up menu.

• Reset button: Click the Reset button for an adjustment to reset the controls to their default settings.

• Adjustments: Click the disclosure triangle for an adjustment to view its controls. Select the checkbox for an adjustment to apply changes using the adjustment controls.

Toolbar

The toolbar is a collection of buttons and tools located at the top of the Aperture main window. The toolbar is shown by default, but you can hide it by choosing View > Hide Toolbar (or pressing Shift-T).

You can customize the toolbar, adding items for the functions you use most, or removing less frequently used toolbar items. For more information, see Customizing the Toolbar.

Note: Because you can customize the toolbar by adding and removing buttons and controls, your toolbar may look different from the one pictured in this manual. To reset the toolbar to its default arrangement, Control-click the toolbar and choose Customize Toolbar from the shortcut menu, then drag the default set of controls at the bottom of the dialog to the toolbar.

Left Side of Toolbar

The following are the default buttons and controls on the left side of the toolbar.

• Inspector button: Click this button to show and hide the Inspector pane, the Library inspector, the Metadata inspector, and the Adjustments inspector.

• Import button: Click this button to show the Import pane and open the Import browser. For more information about controls in the Import pane, see Import Pane.

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• New pop-up menu: Choose the item you want to create in the Library inspector from this pop-up menu.

• Name button: Click this button to assign names to people in your images using the Faces feature. The Name Faces HUD appears, and a face label appears below the faces in the selected image. Enter a name in the face labelto name eachperson in theimage. You can see the people you named in your images in Faces view. For more information, see Faces View.

• Keywords button: Click this button to show or hide the Keywords HUD.

• Email button: Click this button to open your email application and attach selected images.

• MobileMe button: Click this button to publish an album to your MobileMe Gallery for anyone with Internet access to view. MobileMe albums provide a simple and stylish way to post images on the web without your having to deal with HTML coding or manually transferring files.

• Facebook button: Click this button to post an album to your account in Facebook, a social networking website.

• Flickr button: Click this button to create a Flickr album and publish to a Flickr set. Images moved into a Flickr album are published directly to your Flickr account.

Right Side of Toolbar

The following are the default buttons and controls on the right side of the toolbar.

• Browser button: Click this button to show the Browser only.

• Split View button: Click this button to show the Browser and Viewer at the same time.

• Viewer button: Click this button to show the Viewer only.

• Facesbutton: Click this button to switch to Faces view, which displays snapshots of the people whose names you have confirmed usingthe Faces feature, for the item selected in the Library inspector. You can skim a snapshot to see other confirmed images of that person.

• Places button: Click this button to switch to Places view for the item selected in the Library inspector. Images with location information are represented by red pins on the map. For more information about controls in Places view, see Places View.

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• Loupe button: Click this button to open the Loupe, which zooms in to your image by

Keyword controls Rating buttons

Navigation buttons

magnifying the area of the image it is placed over. You can adjust the diameter of the Loupe by choosing View > Loupe Options > Increase Diameter or by choosing View > Loupe Options > Decrease Diameter. For more information about the Loupe, see

Viewing Images with the Loupe.

• Full Screen button: Click this button to switch to Full Screen view, in which images are displayed against a solid background with only a few interface elements. For more information about Full Screen view, see Viewing Images in Full Screen View.

Control Bar

You can display a control bar at the bottom of the main window that provides convenient access to controls and buttons for navigating through images, rating images, and applying keywords to images.

The control bar has the following controls:

• Keyword controls: Use these controls to apply and work with keywords.

• Rating buttons: Click these buttons to apply ratings to the selected image.

• Navigation buttons: Click these buttons to navigate to the next or previous image.

To display the control bar

Choose Window > Show Control Bar (or press D).

To display keyword controls in the control bar

Choose Window > Show Keyword Controls (or press Shift-D).

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Keyword Controls

Individual keyword buttons

Add Keyword field

Keyword Preset Group pop-up menu

Move Selection Left button

Move Selection Right button

You can display keyword controls in the control bar and use the buttons and pop-up menu to apply keywords to images. To learn more about applying keywords, see Applying

Keywords to Images.

• Individual keyword buttons: Click any of these buttons to apply a preset keyword to a selected image or group of images. Hold down the Shift key and click the button to remove the keyword from the image selection.

• Add Keyword field: Enter a new keyword, then press Return. Aperture creates a new keyword and applies it to the selected image.

• Keyword Preset Group pop-up menu: Choose a keyword preset group to display on the keyword buttons, or edit the buttons in an existing keyword preset group. For more information aboutediting keyword preset groups, see Creating a Keyword Preset Group.

Navigation Buttons

You can use the navigation buttons in the control bar to move through images in the Browser and Viewer.

• Move Selection Left button: Click this button to go to the previous image.

• Move Selection Right button: Click this button to go to the next image.

Full Screen View

Full Screen view projects your images onto a solidbackground for detailed viewing. Using a dual-display system in Full Screen view gives you an enlarged space in which to compare and adjust images. Full Screen view has three view modes:

• Viewer mode: This mode provides theperfect environment for adjusting and comparing images by projecting a high-resolution image over a solid background. You use the filmstrip to navigate through, organize, and rate your images. You use the toolbar to select and adjust images, control how many images are displayed onscreen and the

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metadata displayed with images, and open HUDs. For more information, see Working

in Viewer Mode in Full Screen View.

• Browser mode: This mode displays thumbnails for the images within the item selected

Exit Full Screen button

in the Library inspector. You work with the thumbnail images in the same way you work with images in the Browser in the Aperture main window. Browser mode has controls for searching for images as well as for adjusting the size of the thumbnail images. For more information, see Working in Browser Mode in Full Screen View.

• Projects mode: Projects mode displays thumbnails of the projects in your library. In this view mode, you work with projects in the same way you work with projects in Projects view in the Aperture main window. Projects mode has controls for grouping projects by the date their images were shot and by the folders theyreside in. You can also access the Info HUD for additional controls. For more information, see Working in Projects

Mode in Full Screen View.

To enter Full Screen view

Click the Full Screen button in the toolbar (or press F).

The Aperture main window disappears, and your images appear in Full Screen view.

To switch between Viewer mode and Browser mode in Full Screen view

Press V.

To switch to Projects mode

Click the Projects button in the top-left corner of the screen in Browser mode.

To exit Full Screen view

Do one of the following:

Click the Exit Full Screen button in the Full Screen view toolbar (or press F).

Press Esc (Escape).

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Controls in Viewer Mode

Filmstrip

Toolbar

You use Viewer mode in Full Screen view to view your images at high resolution, compare images, and apply adjustments and keywords to images. While in Viewer mode, you typically use the controls in the filmstrip and toolbar in conjunction with each other.

• Toolbar: Use the toolbar buttons and controls to change your images. The toolbar includes buttons and controls for displaying images and opening HUDs, as well as a full set of image adjustment tools. For information about individual toolbar controls, see Controls in the Full Screen View Toolbar.

• Filmstrip: Use the filmstrip to move through, organize, and rate your images. For information about individual filmstrip controls, see Controls in the Full Screen View

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Controls in Browser Mode

Library Path Navigator pop-up menus

Filter HUD button and search field

Projects button

Thumbnail Resize slider

You use Browser mode in Full Screen view to navigate through large thumbnail images, work with stacks, and search for images.

• Projects button: Click this button to switch to Projects mode.

• Library Path Navigator pop-up menus: Choose a library item to display in the Browser from one of the pop-up menus.

• Thumbnail Resize slider: Use the Thumbnail Resize slider to quickly change the size of your thumbnail images.

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Controls in Projects Mode

Search field

Sorting pop-up menu

Thumbnail Resize slider

Project grouping buttons

You use Projects mode in Full Screen view to organize and work with projects. To enter Projects mode, you click the Projects button in the top-left corner of the screen in Browser mode.

• Sorting pop-up menu: Choose to sort projects by name or by date, in ascending or descending order, or in the order the projects appear from top to bottom in the Library inspector.

• Ungrouped button: Click this button to view the projects ungrouped.

• Group by Year button: Click this button to view the projects grouped by the year the images in the projects were captured.

• Group byFolder button: Click this button to view the projects grouped according to the folders in which they reside in the Library inspector.

• Search field: Enter the name of the project you want to locate in this field.

• Thumbnail Resize slider: Use the Thumbnail Resize slider to quickly change the size of your thumbnail images.

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Controls in the Full Screen View Toolbar

Always Show

Toolbar control

Straighten toolRotate tool Lift tool

Selection tool

Crop toolStamp tool

Quick Brush pop-up menu

Red Eye tool

The toolbar displayed in Full Screen view is similar to the toolbar in the Aperture main window. The toolbar provides controls for adjusting images, controlling how images are displayed on the screen, and opening HUDs. You can also use the toolbar to access the Loupe and to exit Full Screen view.

To view the Full Screen view toolbar

In Full Screen view, move the pointer to the top of your primary screen.

You can have the toolbar always appear on the screen by clicking the Always Show Toolbar control.

Selection and Adjustment Controls

Use these controls to select, rotate, lift and stamp, straighten, crop, and correct red-eye in images, as well as apply Quick Brush adjustments.

• Selection tool: Select projects, albums, and images with this tool.

• Rotate tool: Rotate an image counterclockwise with this tool. You can also press R to select this tool. If you press R again, the rotation switches to clockwise.

• Lift tool: Copy a set of metadata and adjustments, including cropping and straightening settings, from a selected image with this tool.

• Stamp tool: Stamp a copied set of adjustments or metadata on one or several images with this tool.

• Straighten tool: Use the guides to help manually straighten (or level) the selected image.

• Crop tool: Trim the selected image with this tool.

• Red Eye tool: Reduce red-eye, occurring when the subject’s retinas reflect light from your camera’s flash, with this tool.

• Quick Brush pop-up menu: Choose a Quick Brush adjustment from this pop-up menu. For more information about working with Quick Brush adjustments, see Making Brushed

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Display Controls

Metadata Overlays pop-up menu

Show Master

button

Quick Preview button

Viewer Mode pop-up menu

Primary Only button

Zoom Viewer button

Always Show Toolbar control

Keywords HUD button

Loupe button

Inspector HUD button

Name button

Exit Full Screen button

Use the display controls to manage how images are displayed in Full Screen view.

• Viewer Modepop-up menu: Choose how to viewyour images and arrange your displays from this pop-up menu. For more information, see Viewing Imageson Multiple Displays.

• Show Master button: Click this button to view the master image without any applied adjustments. Click again to switch the view back to the current version.

• Metadata Overlays pop-up menu: Choose to show metadata with images and switch between the basic and expanded metadata views.

• Zoom Viewer button: Click this button to switch between viewing an image at actual size and fitting the image to the screen size.

• Primary Only button: Click this button to make changes to the primary image selection only.

• Quick Preview button: Click this button to view preview images only. Viewing preview images speeds up access to and display of images in Full Screen view.

Additional Buttons

Use the buttons at the rightside of the Full Screen view toolbar to assign names to people in your images, open the Keywords and Inspector HUDs, open the Loupe, exit Full Screen view, and turn the automatic display of the toolbar on and off.

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• Name button: Click this button to assign a name to a face using a face label.

• Keywords HUD button: Click this button to show or hide the Keywords HUD.

• Loupe button: Click this button to open the Loupe, which you can use to minutely

Thumbnail Resize slider

Scroll bar

Always Show Filmstrip control

Sorting pop-up menu

Filter HUD button

Search field and pop-up menu

examine parts of an image.

• Inspector HUD button: Click this button to show or hide the Inspector HUD.

• Exit Full Screen button: Click this button to exit Full Screen view.

• Always Show Toolbar control: Click this control to turn the automatic display of the toolbar on or off.

Controls in the Full Screen View Filmstrip

The filmstrip provides controls for sorting and scrolling through images, resizing thumbnails, and searching for images.

• Sorting pop-upmenu: Sort your images by a variety ofsort properties using this pop-up menu.

• Always ShowFilmstrip control: Set whether the filmstrip is displayed all the time or only when the pointer is moved over it.

• Scroll bar: Drag the scroller to scroll through your images.

• Thumbnail Resize slider: Drag the slider to change the size of the thumbnail images shown in the filmstrip.

• Filter HUD button: Click this button to open the Filter HUD that you can use to perform complex searches for images.

• Search field and pop-up menu: Search for images by entering a term in the search field or choosing an option from the search field pop-up menu (with a magnifying glass icon). Sort your images by a variety of sort properties using this pop-up menu.

Projects View

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To enter Projects view

Search field

Thumbnail Resize slider

Sorting pop-up menu Project grouping buttons

Do one of the following:

Choose View > Show Projects.

In the Library inspector, select Projects.

• Sorting pop-up menu: Choose to sort projects by name or by date, in ascending or descending order, or in the order the projects appear from top to bottom in the Library inspector.

• Ungrouped button: Click this button to view the projects ungrouped.

• Group by Year button: Click this button to view the projects grouped by the year the images in the projects were captured.

• Group byFolder button: Click this button to view the projects grouped according to the folders in which they reside in the Library inspector.

• Search field: Enter the name of the project you want to locate in this field.

• Thumbnail Resize slider: Use the Thumbnail Resize slider to quickly change the size of your thumbnail images.

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Faces View

Faces item in the Library inspector

Faces button

Snapshots containing people who have been assigned names using the Faces feature appear in Faces view. When you select the Faces item in the Library inspector, the main window switches to Faces view, showing all the photos of people with assigned names in the Aperture library. When you click the Faces button in the toolbar, Faces view shows all the photos of people with assigned names in the item selected in the Library inspector.

To enter Faces view

Do one of the following:

To show snapshots of people with assigned names across the entire Aperture Library,

select Faces in the Library inspector.

To show snapshots of people with assigned names in a specific item in the Library

inspector, select the item in the Library inspector, then click the Faces button in the toolbar.

The main window switches to Faces view.

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Controls in Faces View

Show Unnamed Faces button Thumbnail Resize slider

Search field

Faces view displays snapshots of people in the library whose names you have confirmed.

• Search field: Enter text; people whose names match the text you entered appear in Faces view.

• Thumbnail Resize slider: Drag the slider to change the size of the snapshots.

• Show/Hide UnnamedFaces button: Click the button to show and hide images of people in the library whose faces have been detected by Aperture but whose names are not yet confirmed.

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Controls in the Faces Browser

Photos button

Confirm Faces button

All Faces button

Sorting pop-up menu Face name

Faces button Thumbnail Resize

slider

When you double-click a person’s snapshot in Faces view, all the confirmed images of that person appear at the top of the Faces browser, and all the suggested images of the person appear in a separate section below the confirmed images.

• All Faces button: Click this button to return to Faces view.

• Sorting pop-up menu: Sort your images by a variety of sort properties in this pop-up menu. You can also choose to arrange your images in ascending or descending order.

• Face name: The title bar contains the name of the person in the images.

• Thumbnail Resize slider: Drag the slider to change the size of the thumbnail images shown in the Faces browser.

• Confirm Faces button: Click this button to confirm or reject suggested images of the same person.

• Photos button: Click this button to show the entire image version in each thumbnail image.

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• Facesbutton: Click this button toshow only the face of the individual in each thumbnail

Places item in the Library inspector

Places button

image.

Places View

Images organized by location using the Places feature are represented by pins on the Places view map at the locations where the images were taken.

To enter Places view

Do one of the following:

To show the location information for images across the entire Aperture Library, select

Places in the Library inspector.

To show the location information for images in a specific item in the Library inspector,

select an item in the Library inspector, then click the Places button in the toolbar.

The main window switches to Places view. All images that have location information are represented by red pins on the map.

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Zoom slider and buttons

Search field

Overview Map pane

Overview Map Pane button

Places Path Navigator pop-up menus

Searching and Navigation Controls

In Places view, you can search for locations where your images were shot, navigate to locations, zoom in to the map to view locations in detail, and change map views.

• Zoom slider and buttons: Use the Zoom slider and buttons to zoom in to and out of the map.

• Places Path Navigator pop-up menus: Choose a location to display in Places view from one of the Places Path Navigator pop-up menus.

• Search field: Enter text; locations whose names match the text you entered appear in the search results list below.

• Overview Map pane: Use the Overview Map pane to quickly move the field of view to another location on the map. Drag the red rectangle to change the view.

• Overview Map Pane button: Click thisbutton to open and close the Overview Map pane.

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Map View Controls

Road button

Terrain button

Satellite button

Move Pins button

Places Action pop-up menu

GPS pop-up menu

There are three map views you can use within Places view.

• Satellite button: Click this button to set the map to show detailed satellite-stitched images. In this map view only, a Show Labels checkbox appears. Select this checkbox to display overlays of major streets and highways when the Satellite view is shown.

Note: Not all areas have detailed satellite images.

• Road button: Click this button to set the map to show roads.

• Terrain button: Click this button to set the map to show topography and elevations.

Location and GPS Controls

Use these controls to move location pins in Places view, work with GPS data, remove location information, and show and hide location badges on images.

• Places Action pop-up menu: Choose to remove location information from an image selection, create a Smart Album from the current view, and show and hide location badges from this pop-up menu.

• GPS pop-up menu: Import GPS track data, import GPS data from photos shot with a GPS-enabled iPhone, edit the time zone of GPS track data, and delete GPS track data using this pop-up menu.

• Move Pins button: Click this button to move location pins.

Slideshow Editor

You can use the Slideshow Editor to create slideshows that include video and audio clips as well as images. You can also use the Slideshow Editor to export slideshow movies that you can share via email, iPhone, iPod touch, iPod classic, or the web. To learn more about

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the Slideshow Editor, see About Creating Slideshows with the Slideshow Editor.

General Slideshow Editor Controls

Export button

Theme button

Slideshow playhead

Slideshow Action pop-up menu

Slide Duration button

Preview Slideshow button

Play Slideshow button

Audio Browser button

Slideshow Settings button

The following controls are always available in the Slideshow Editor.

• Theme button: Click this button to choose a theme for your slideshow.

• Export button: Click this button to export your slideshow as a movie and choose a platform to share it on.

• Slideshow playhead: Drag the playhead across thumbnail images in the Browser to see the slides and the transitions between them in the Slideshow Editor.

• Play Slideshow button: Click this button to play the slideshow in full-screen mode.

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• Preview Slideshow button: Click this button to preview the slideshow in the Slideshow

Background color well

“Show title” color well

“Show title” Fonts button

Border color well

Transition direction buttons

Text Fonts

button

Text color well

Editor. Clicking this button keeps the Browser open and the playhead visible asit moves across the images in the slideshow.

• Slideshow Action pop-up menu: Insert blank slides, fit the slide selection to the soundtrack, adjust the audio track, and view playhead information using this pop-up menu.

• Slide Durationbutton: Click this button to set the duration of each slide as the slideshow plays.

• Slideshow Settings button: Click this button to access controls in the Default Settings and Selected Slides panes.

• Audio Browser button: Click this button to open the Audio browser.

Default Settings Controls

To show the Default Settings pane, click the Slideshow Settings button. You use the controls in this pane when you want to modify settings that are applied uniformly to every slide and transition in the slideshow.

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Note: The controls that appear in the Default Settings pane change depending on the theme selected for the slideshow.

• Aspect Ratio pop-upmenu: Choose an aspect ratio to apply to your slideshow from this pop-up menu.

• “Repeat slideshow” checkbox: Select this checkbox to loop playback of the slideshow.

• "Loop main audio track” checkbox: Select this checkbox to loop playback of the main audio track.

• “Show title”checkbox: Select this checkbox to display title text over the first slide in the slideshow.

• “Show title” Fonts button: Click this button to open the Fonts window and select a font and size to apply to the title text.

Note: The Fonts button appears dimmed unless the “Show title” checkbox is selected.

• “Show title” color well: Change the color applied to the title text by clicking the color well and then selecting a new color from the Colors window. You can also click the disclosure button (to the right ofthe color well) and select anew color from the pop-up color palette.

Note: The color well and disclosure button appear dimmed unless the “Show title” checkbox is selected.

• “Play slide for” value slider: Use this value slider to determine the amount of time each slide is shown during the slideshow.

• Background color well: Change the background color of your slideshow by clicking the Background color well and then selecting a new background color from the Colors window, or click the disclosure button (to the right of the color well) and select a new background color from the pop-up color palette.

• Border valueslider: Use this value slider to determine the width (or stroke) of the image border in pixels. A value of 0 (zero) applies no border.

• Border color well: Change the border color applied to each slide by clicking the color well and then selecting a new border color from the Colors window. You can also click the disclosure button (to the right of the color well) and choose a new border color from the pop-up color palette.

• Inset value slider: Use this value slider to apply padding between the image and the image border. A value of 0 (zero) applies no space between the image and the border.

• Crop pop-up menu: Choose to have every image fit within the frame of the slideshow’s aspect ratio, have every image fill the frame of the slideshow’s aspect ratio, or apply a Ken Burns effect. A Ken Burns effect zooms in to or out of the image while slowly panning across it.

• Transitionpop-up menu: Choose the type of transition to uniformly apply between each slide from the list of items in this pop-menu.

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Note: A preview of the transition you choose plays beneath the Transition pop-up menu.

• Transitiondirection buttons: For transition effects that can be applied in more than one direction, set the direction of the effect using these buttons.

Note: The Transition direction buttons appear dimmed if you choose a transition that can be applied in only one direction.

• Speed value slider: Use this value slider to set the duration of the transitions between slides.

• Text pop-up menu: Choose the type of text to appear over every slide in the slideshow. You can choose from many options, such as the version’s name or the date, or you can create a custom caption.

Note: The text can be individually edited for each slide.

• Text Fonts button: Click this button to open the Fonts window and select a font and size to apply to the text.

• Text color well: Change the color applied to the text by clicking the color well and then selecting a new color from the Colors window. You can also click the disclosure button (to the right of the color well) and select a new color from the pop-up color palette.

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Selected Slides Controls

Text Fonts

button

Text color well

Transition direction buttons

Border color well

Background color well

To show the Selected Slides pane, click the Slideshow Settings button, then click the Selected Slides button. You use these controls to modify the behavior of individual slides in the slideshow.

• “Photo effect” checkbox and pop-up menu: Select this checkbox and choose an effect from the pop-up menu to apply to the selected slides.

• “Play slide for” checkbox and value slider: Select this checkbox to override the default settings and change the display time for an individual slide in the slideshow. Use the value slider to determine the amount of time the image will be shown.

• Background checkbox and color well: Change the background color of an individual slide by selecting the Background checkbox, clicking the color well, and then selecting a new background color from the Colors window. You can also click the disclosure button (to the right of the color well) and select a new background color from the pop-up color palette.

• Border checkbox and value slider: Apply a border to an individual slide by selecting this checkbox. Use the value slider to determine the width (or stroke) of the image border in pixels. A value of 0 (zero) applies no border.

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• Border color well: Change an individual image’s border color by clicking the color well and then selecting a new border color from the Colors window. You can also click the disclosure button (to the right of the color well) and select a new border color from the pop-up color palette.

• Inset checkboxand valueslider: Select the checkbox to apply paddingbetween a specific image and the image border, and adjust the width of the padding using the Inset value slider. A value of 0 (zero) applies no space between the image and the border.

• Crop checkbox and pop-up menu: Select this checkbox and choose an option from the pop-up menu to have the selected image fit within the frame of the slideshow’s aspect ratio, have the image fill the frame of the slideshow’s aspect ratio, or apply a Ken Burns effect. A Ken Burns effect zooms in to or out of the image and then slowly pans across it.

• Edit button: Click this button to adjust the image based on the setting in the Crop pop-up menu. When you click the Edit button, you can adjust how the image fits the frame, choose the part of the image that fills the frame, or activate Start and End wireframes for the Ken Burns effect. You use the Start and End wireframes to set where the panning for the Ken Burns effect begins and ends in the image.

For more information about creating custom Ken Burns effects, see Applying a Ken

Burns Effect to Individual Slides.

• Transition checkbox and pop-up menu: Select this checkbox to apply or modify a transition between selected slides. Choose the type of transition from the pop-menu.

Note: A preview of the transition you choose plays beneath the Transition pop-up menu.

• Transitiondirection buttons: For transition effects that can be applied in more than one direction, set the direction of the effect using these buttons.

Note: The Transition direction buttons appear dimmed if you choose a transition that can be applied in only one direction.

• Speed value slider: Use this value slider to set the duration of the transition.

• Text checkbox and pop-up menu: Select this checkbox to apply text to appear over the selected slide in the slideshow. Choose the type of text, such as the version’s name or date, from the pop-up menu. You can also create a custom caption.

• Text Fonts button: Click this button to open the Fonts window and select a font and size to apply to the text.

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Audio Browser Controls

Play button

Audio track preview area

Source list

Search field

Click the Audio Browser button toshow controls for working with the audio tracks applied to the slideshow.

• Source list: Select the source of the audio track from this list. You can select a song or audio file from GarageBand, your iTunes library, slideshow Theme Music, and anyaudio imported into the Aperture library.

Note: Make sure to use only DRM-free music from your iTunes library in slideshows that you plan to share with others.

• Audio track preview area: Displays the available audio files from the item selected in the Source list. Select an audio track to accompany your slideshow by dragging it from the audio track preview area to the Browser.

• Search field: Search for songs in your iTunes library or audio files on your system by entering descriptive text in the search field. The search is narrowed to the selection in the Source list.

• Play button: Preview the selected audio file by clicking this button.

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Light Table

Light Table Zoom slider

Put Back Selected button Scale to Fit button

Uncover button

Navigator button

The Light Table provides an open workspace where you can freely arrange images. You can use the Light Table to review and compare images, create mockups of webpages, compare color values in a selection of images before applying color corrections, or do anything else that involves viewing and comparing your images. To learn more about the Light Table, see Using the Light Table.

• Put Back Selected button: Click this button to remove a selected image from the Light Table.

• Uncover button: Click this button to reveal images that are covered by other images in the Light Table.

• Navigator button: When the Light Table is larger than your screen, click this button to reposition your view on another area of the Light Table.

• Scale to Fit button: Click this button to fit the entire Light Table on your screen.

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• Light Table Zoom slider: Drag the Light Table Zoom slider to change the Light Table’s

Show All Images buttonShow Viewer button

Show Unplaced Images button

size.

• Show Viewerbutton: Click this button to display the selected Light Table album’s images in theViewer sothat you can apply adjustmentsto them. Click the ShowViewer button again to switch back to the Light Table.

• Show All Images button: Click this button to see the entire contents of the Light Table album in the Browser.

• Show Unplaced Images button: Click this button to see only images in the Browser that are not yet placed in the Light Table.

Webpage Editor

You can use the Webpage Editor to create professional-quality, gallery-style pages and web journal pages for displaying your images. After designing your pages, you can post them to your MobileMe account or web server. The controls in the Webpage Editor differ slightly depending on whether you have selected a webpage album or a web journal album.

For more information about the Webpage Editor controls available for webpage albums, see Web Gallery Controls.

For more information about theWebpage Editor controls availablefor web journal albums, see Web Journal Controls.

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Web Gallery Controls

The Webpage Editor is where you design web galleries.

To work with a web gallery in the Webpage Editor, select a webpage album in the Library inspector and then select a page's thumbnail in the Pages pane on the left side. When an enlarged view of the selected page appears on the right, you can add and arrange images and text.

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Following are the web gallery controls in the Webpage Editor.

Detail Images pane

Metadata View pop-up menu

Theme button

Pages pane

Next Page button

Columns value sliderPrevious Page button

Rows value slider

• Theme button: Click this button to choose a theme, or layout, for your web gallery. The name of the selected theme appears to the right of the Theme button.

• Metadata View pop-up menu: Choose the type of metadata that is included with each image in the web gallery.

• Pages pane: Select a thumbnail in this pane to view a specific webpage.

• Detail Images pane: Select a thumbnail image to see an enlarged version of the image in its own webpage. This is the page that visitors see when they click the image on your site.

• Previous Page button: Click this button to go to the previous page.

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• Next Page button: Click this button to go to the next page.

Height value slider

Width value slider

“Fit images within” pop-up menu

• Columns value slider: Use this control to specify the number of columns you want on a page. Click the arrows to increase or decrease the numberof columns, or double-click in the value field and enter a new value.

• Rows value slider: Use this control to specify the number of rows you want on a page. Click the arrows to increase or decrease the number of rows, or double-click in the value field and enter a new value.

• “Fit images within” pop-up menu: Choose an option for how you want images to appear on the page.

• Width value slider: Use this control to specify the column width. Click the arrows to increase or decrease the width, or double-click in the value field and enter a new value.

• Height valueslider: Use this control to specify therow height. Click the arrows to increase or decrease the height, or double-click in the value field and enter a new value.

• Export Web Pages button: Click this button to export your web gallery pages as HTML files.

• Publish to MobileMebutton: Click this button to publish your finalized web gallery pages to your MobileMe account. For more information, see Exporting to MobileMe.

Web Journal Controls

You can also create journal-style webpages, mixing paragraphs of text and images, to display on the web. When working with a web journal, you can manually arrange images and text on the page.

To work with a web journal in the Webpage Editor, select a web journal album in the Library inspector, and then select a page's thumbnailin the Pages pane.When an enlarged view of the selected page appears on the right, you can add and arrange images and text.

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To learn more about creating web journals, see Creating Webpages.

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Pages pane

Theme button

Detail Images pane

Page Action pop-up menu

Page Template pop-up menu

Remove Page button

Add Page button

Following are web journal controls in the Webpage Editor.

• Theme button: Click this button to choose a theme, or layout, for your web journal.

• Pages pane: Select a thumbnail in this pane to see a specific page of the web journal.

• Detail Images pane: Select a thumbnail image to see an enlarged version of the image in its own webpage. This is the page that the visitors see when they click the image on your site.

• Page Template pop-up menu: Use this pop-up menu to choose a page template, or layout.

• Page Action pop-up menu: Choose how to add pages to your web journal, as well as move the page currently selected in the Pages pane up or down.

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• Remove Page button: Click this buttonto remove a selected page from your web journal.

Apple Aperture - 3.0 User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Contents

Welcome to Aperture

About Aperture

About the Aperture Documentation

Additional Resources

An Overview of Aperture

A First Look at Aperture

Creating Projects and Importing Your Photos

Creating Projects

Viewing Projects in Projects View

Working with the Aperture Trash

Importing Images with the Import Browser

Importing Files from Your Body of Work

Photo Editing with Aperture

Viewing and Working with Images

Using Multi-Touch Trackpad Gestures with Aperture

Working with Heads-Up Displays

Working with Inspectors

Rating Images with Aperture

Finding and Displaying Images with the Filter HUD

Comparing Photos

Stacking Images

Assigning Keywords to Images

Organizing Photos of People with Faces

Locating Your Images on a Map with Places

Automatically Grouping Images with Smart Albums

Image Processing

Sharing

Presenting Images in Slideshows

Reviewing Images in the Aperture Light Table

Publishing Images in Web Galleries and Web Journals

Sharing Images with Facebook, Flickr, and MobileMe

Presenting Images in Books

Printing and Exporting Images

Sharing Images with iLife and iWork Applications

Backing Up Your Work

The Aperture Interface

The Aperture Main Window

Browser

Browser in Filmstrip View

Browser in Grid View

Browser in List View

Viewer

Tool strip

Inspector Pane

Library Inspector

Import pane

Vault Pane

Metadata Inspector

Adjustments Inspector

Toolbar

Control Bar

Full Screen View

Controls in Viewer Mode

Controls in Browser Mode

Controls in Projects Mode

Controls in the Full Screen View Toolbar

Controls in the Full Screen View Filmstrip

Projects View

Faces View

Places View

Slideshow Editor

Light Table

Webpage Editor

Web Gallery Controls

Web Journal Controls