Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
If you create a keyword hierarchy such as
bird/parrot
and then create another hierarchy, such as
parrot/eclectus/male
and
parrot/eclectus/female
, at the top level it's easy to merge the two together.
Click and drag the top-level
parrot
onto
bird
. Aperture warns you that there's a keyword with the
same name at the destination hierarchy level and asks if you want to merge hierarchies. Click
Merge, and now you have
bird/parrot/eclectus/male
and
bird/parrot/eclectus/female
keyword
hierarchies.
Customizing button sets
Under the Button Sets group are two columns: Name and Contents. The Name column represents
the different groups of keywords you see in the pop-up menu. To temporarily disable a group so
that it still exists but doesn't appear in the pop-up menu, deselect the check box by the group's
name. The Contents column lists all the keywords that are part of each group.
Underneath the Name column are four buttons: Add (+), Remove (-), Import, and Export. To create
a new keyword preset group, click the Add button and then give your preset group a name. Next,
you need to add contents to this group. To do so, either find an existing keyword or add a new
one. Once you find the desired keyword (which can be anywhere in a keyword hierarchy, too!),
drag and drop it from the Keywords Library to the Contents column.
Rearrange items in the Contents column by dragging and dropping them to the desired location,
and delete an item by selecting it in the list and either pressing the Delete key or by clicking the
Remove button below the Contents column. Remember, you will be able to use the keyboard
shortcut Option+1 through 8 to assign the first eight keywords to an image.
Once you're happy with your keyword preset group, click OK to close the dialog. Note that you can
also export the keyword preset group by selecting it in the Name column and clicking Export.
Aperture exports it as a .plist file that you can import into Aperture on another computer by open-
ing the Edit Button Sets dialog, clicking Import, and selecting the exported .plist file.
The Keywords heads-up display
The last way to apply keywords to an image is by using the Keywords heads-up display (HUD)
shown in Figure 4.18. Open the Keywords HUD by choosing Window
Show Keywords HUD
(Shift+H) or by pressing the Keywords button in the toolbar. The contents of the Keywords HUD
should look very familiar to you — they're identical to the Keywords Library that was covered in
the previous section. Rather than having to use the Edit Button Sets dialog to access your Keywords
Library, the Keywords HUD provides direct access, including all the features (add/delete/reorga-
nize keywords) we described previously.
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