Lesson 3. Organizing and Rating Images

Lesson Files		APTS_Aperture_book_files > Lessons > Lesson03
Media		luna_wtr_mrk_h240.psd
Time		This lesson takes approximately 90 minutes to complete.
Goals		Open and close stacks
		Choose picks
		Organize images using folders
		Create a standard album
		Email images from Aperture
		Rate images as five-star "selects"
		Evaluate images in the Viewer
		Use the Zoom feature and Loupe to evaluate images
		Navigate the Browser
		Create a Smart Album

Organizing images is one of the most time-consuming and important tasks of professional photography. You need to be able to quickly and easily find the image you need for a particular client or job. The larger your image collection, the greater the challenge.

Another critical task is evaluating imagesjudging not only their composition and aesthetic value but also the quality of the shots, including focus, lighting, and exposure.

The two tasks go hand in hand, because it's natural and intuitive for a photographer to want to somehow identify or flag "hero" or "keeper" images (or duds) while sorting and organizing them.

With Aperture, it's easy to organize and rate images in a seamless process. For example, you can organize similar images into intuitive stacks, choose the pick of a stack as your favorite in a group, and apply star ratings to individual images as you evaluate them in the Viewer. In this lesson, we'll explore some of Aperture's organization and rating features as we continue preparing the potential fashion-shoot location images for our client, Grande Agency.