Creating Albums from Stacked Images


When you create albums from stacks of images in Aperture, it helps to understand exactly how it handles the picks.

1.

Switch to Standard layout, close all stacks, and then select the first three stacks in the project.

2.

Select File > New From Selection > Album, or press Command-L. Aperture creates a new, untitled album that contains all of the images in the three selected stacks, not just the picks. Note that your stacks may appear different from what's shown here, depending on which images you selected as picks.

By default, the stacks in the new album are closed, and only the pick images appear in the Browser even though the album includes all of the images from all three stacks. Aperture displays only the picks because for the rest of your workflow, you'll probably only work with these pick images, but all of the images are there in case you need them.

What if, however, you want different picks in the album than in the original stacks? For that, you can define album picks. Album picks can be any images in the album; they don't have to be the stack picks.

3.

Select the Pickle Circus Rehearsal project in the Projects panel to see all of its image thumbnails in the Browser.

4.

Open the stack shown in the following image and drag the middle image to the album that you created in step 2.

5.

Select the album in the Projects panel to view its contents in the Browser.

Aperture copied the entire stack to the album, and it's showing the stack pick, not the second image that you actually dragged. But we want that image to be an album pick.

6.

Open the stack and select the middle image.

7.

Choose Stacks > Set Album Pick or press Command-Shift-\.

A small checkmark in a circle appears at the top of the image to indicate that this image is an album pick.

8.

Close the stack. The album pick appears on the front of the stack.

Every album you create can have a unique set of album picks, making it possible to create albums with different images at the top of each stack. Your original pick is always preserved, though.

You might use album picks, for example, to create one album that shows all of your pick images, and a second album that shows all of your first alternates.




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

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