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. |