Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Name from this submenu to cause all the items in the Library Inspector to be sorted
alphabetically. Choose Kind to cause the items to be grouped by kind. Choose Manual so
that you can drag and drop items to rearrange them however you want. Even if you
choose Name or Kind, you can manually rearrange an item at any point and Aperture will
automatically switch to Manual sorting.
Export Project/Folder/Album as New Library.
We cover this topic more in Chapter 10,
but the quick explanation is that any item in Aperture can be exported as a new library
to make it easy to share groups of images.
Maintain Previews for Project.
By default, Aperture maintains large previews of your
images for use in other applications such as iWork. However, these previews can take a
lot of hard drive space, and it's often useful to not maintain them for an entire project.
We cover previews and this command more in Chapter 10.
At the very bottom of the Library Inspector is a bar marked Vault. Vaults are special Aperture-
created backups of your library. We cover Vaults and other backup options in Chapter 10.
By clicking the Metadata tab at the top of the Inspector, you switch from the Library Inspector to
the Metadata Inspector. As you might expect, this inspector allows you to edit your image's meta-
data. This inspector is covered in depth in Chapter 4. The last tab, Adjustments, lets you switch to
the Adjustments Inspector, which contains tools to adjust your image. The Adjustment Inspector
is covered in Chapter 6.
If you're working on a small screen, it's often useful to hide the Inspector and to only show it
when needed. To hide the Inspector, choose Window
➪
Hide Inspector; to reveal it, choose
Window
Show Inspector. The keyboard shortcut for hiding and showing the inspector is I
(with no modifiers). There are menu commands for quickly switching to the Library, Metadata,
and Adjustment Inspectors under View
➪
Inspector, but more useful are the keyboard shortcuts
to switch to those views: Control+P for the Library Inspector (think P for Project), Control+D for
the Metadata Inspector, and Control+A for the Adjustment Inspector. W (with no modifiers) is
also a keyboard shortcut for View
➪
➪
Inspector
➪
Next Tab, which lets you quickly cycle among
Inspector tabs.
If you're working with a tablet display like a Wacom Cintiq, you might find it useful to
move the Inspector to the right side of the screen. Choose View
➪
Inspector
➪
Swap
Position.
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