Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Aperture uses JPEG previews of your photos in its slide shows. If the images in your
slide show aren't as sharp or as high of quality as you expect, you need to adjust your
preview settings. Choose Aperture
Previews, increase your Photo
Preview size to the needed resolution, and increase the Photo Preview quality. Make
sure to regenerate your old previews after changing this setting by selecting your
old images, Control+clicking them, and choosing Update Previews. Keep in mind
that higher-quality previews require more hard drive space.
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Web Pages
While slide shows are a great, multimedia-oriented way to present your work, many times it's
more effective to create a Web Page of your images. In addition to letting you easily post images
to Facebook, Flickr, and MobileMe (which we cover later in this chapter), Aperture makes it easy to
create custom Web Pages of your images that you can upload to your own Web site.
Comparing Web Journals, Web Pages, and Smart
Web Pages
A Web Journal is a Web site where the main pages have groups of images intermixed with text
that you type yourself, as shown in Figure 8.19. A Web Page (called a Web gallery in previous ver-
sions of Aperture) displays a contact sheet of thumbnails for images you pick by hand on the main
pages (also shown in Figure 8.19), and a Smart Web Page is just like a Web Page except Aperture
automatically populates the Web Page contents based on the Smart Album's setting. All three
types of pages can display image metadata on the main page, and all three types have detail
pages with larger versions of each image and optionally more or different metadata.
The main way to figure out which type of page you want is to think about what you want to do
with the Web site. If you want to create a Web site about a trip you took, and putting images and
stories together, you would create a Web Journal. If you just want to show images that you explic-
itly pick, then use a normal Web Page. However, if you need to make a Web site around a specific
criteria (for example, all photos of this person or from this place), then you should create a Smart
Web Page.
