Lesson 8. Advanced Organization and Rating


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Pickle Circus Rehearsal.approject

 

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Time

This lesson takes approximately 2 hours to complete.

Goals

Create and edit stacks

 

Create keywords and keyword groups

 

Apply keywords to images

 

Edit metadata in batches

 

Define picks and promote/demote alternates in a stack

 

Apply star ratings to images

 

Define album picks

 

Filter images using the Browser Search field and the Query HUD


Earlier in this book, you learned the basics of several of Aperture's organizational features, including stacks, ratings, and albums. In this lesson, we'll explore those features more deeply and learn, among other things, how to manually create and edit stacks, how to add and edit keyword metadata so that you can search for images quickly, and how to apply and edit star ratings to images. All of these techniques will make short work of organizing not just the photos in your archives but also the hundreds of photos that you acquire on heavy shooting days.

To learn about these features, we're going to use Aperture to organize images from an event shoot of the Pickle Family Circus, a San Franciscobased performing arts company. We photographed a rehearsal to capture some images for a printed program that provides a behind-the-scenes look at the production. The client asked specifically for images with a documentary, or "found," look. Because many of these shots were action shots of circus performers, we captured a lot of burst sequences. We'll use Aperture's stacking features to organize the images and the keyword and rating features to further sort and filter our images.




Apple Pro Training Series(c) Aperture
Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture
ISBN: 0321422767
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 185

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