Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Under Viewer, choose Show Metadata to have Aperture display a metadata over-
lay.
By default, the display uses the Basic View unless you choose Switch to Expanded
View, and shows basic information such as ratings, labels, flags, and badges. (Aperture
uses badges to convey a variety of information about the file such as if it's a referenced
file, if the master is available, if you've assigned keywords to it, and so on. We cover this
in detail in Chapter 10.)
Under Viewer, choose Switch to Expanded View to see more information such as
any keywords that you've applied, the version name, the date the file was created,
even whether you've e-mailed the image or used it in a book.
Once you choose this,
the option in the pop-up menu changes to Switch to Basic View. Choose that to return to
an overlay with less information.
Under Browser, choose Show Metadata to see a metadata overlay in the Browser
with each thumbnail.
By default, the display uses the Basic View unless you choose
Switch to Expanded View, and shows basic information such as ratings, labels, flags, and
badges.
Under Browser, choose Switch to Expanded View to see more information.
If the Browser is set to filmstrip, it may only show some, but not all, of the informa-
tion in the overlay. To be certain the overlays show exactly the information you
expect, use the Grid view or the List view in the Browser. Because the Browser has
only limited area to display information, we suggest you only use the Expanded
View in the Browser metadata overlay if the Browser is set to List view.
Caution
To specify what information is included in the Basic and Expanded View overlays in both the
Viewer and the Browser, do the following:
1.
Choose Edit in the Metadata Overlays pop-up menu.
A new dialog appears, as shown
in Figure 3.23.
2.
Choose which view to configure from the View pop-up menu.
The items that will be
displayed are listed on the right under Display Order.
3.
To remove any items, click the minus (-) button next to the item in the Display
Order list.
4.
To choose additional items to include, use the expansion arrows next to the items
on the left under Metadata Fields.
Select the check box next to that item and that field
then appears on the right under Display Order.
