Preparing the Project

Up to this point, you've been importing images into projects that you've created within Aperture. However, Aperture also lets you import and export entire projects, making it simple to pass projects to your colleagues.

When you export a project, you're exporting not just the images but also all the metadata, adjustments, albums, websites and other information you've attached to those images inside Aperture. To start off this lesson, we'll import a project from the APTS DVD files.

1.	Choose File > Import > Projects, navigate to the APTS_Aperture_book_files > Lessons > Lesson09 folder, and import the project Lesson 09 Images. For the exercises in this lesson, we will be referencing many of the images in this project by their version name. Therefore, you'll want to be sure your Browser is configured to show version names.
2.	Choose View > View Options or press Command-J to open the View Options window.
3.	Make sure the Grid View checkbox is selected, and then select the Set 2 radio button to activate the Set 2 option.
4.	Choose Grid View Expanded from the Set 2 pop-up menu. This will display the version name beneath each image.
5.	Click Done to close the View Options window.