| We've chosen the select images from all three locations, and now we're going to use a filter to view just the five-star images. Before we send them to the retailer, however, let's take a quick look at two more organizational features in Aperture: tabbed panes and split panes. Working with Projects in Tabbed and Split Panes Putting projects, folders, and albums in tabbed and split panes is a great way of accessing them quickly without having to select them in the Projects panel. Tabbed and split panes are also useful when you're working with more than one project at a time. 1. | Press Command-Option-B to switch to the Maximize Browser layout.
| | | 2. | Select the Travel folder in the Projects panel.
All the images in the Jackson Hole, South America, and South Beach projects appear in the Browser, with the stack picks indicated.
 | | | 3. | Click the magnifying glass icon in the Filter field on the upper right of the Browser. Choose five stars.
 The Browser displays only the five-star select images. The filter criterion affects only the Travel folder; it can be changed to display different Travel folder images. Later in the lesson you will create a Smart Album using the same criterion.
| 4. | Option-click the Jackson Hole project to open it in a tabbed pane in the Browser.
 The contents of the Travel folder appear in the left pane of the Browser, and the contents of the Jackson Hole project appear on the right; the Jackson Hole tab is active.
| | | 5. | Command-click the South America project to open it in a tabbed pane on the right pane of the Browser next to the Jackson Hole tab.
 | 6. | Command-click the South Beach project to open it as a tabbed pane next to the other two projects.
 Now that you have set up split panes and multiple tabs, let's put them to use.
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Organizing Images Using Split Panes With split planes, we can select certain images to view in one pane, change ratings or other metadata, and view the results in another pane. Let's take a look at how this works. 1. | Click the Jackson Hole tab in the right pane.
 | 2. | With the Jackson Hole tab open in the right pane, select the Jackson Hole 2 of 23 image. We rated it as a select earlier, but now, on second thought, let's not send it to the retailer.
| 3. | Press Command-0 to remove the rating from Jackson Hole 2 of 23.
The rating disappears from the image in the Jackson Hole project tab and the image disappears from Travel folder tab, because the Travel folder is filtered to display only five-star select images.
| | | 4. | Select the Jackson Hole 6 of 23 image and press backslash (\) to make it a select. The image is added to the filtered Travel tab.
| 5. | Close the project tabs in the right pane of the Browser, leaving only the Travel tab open.
| 6. | Click the X on the right side of the Filter field to reset the filter and display all the images from the Jackson Hole, South America, and South Beach projects.
Split panes are a great tool for viewing multiple folders, projects, and albums at once. Just be careful not to get too close to the monitor, as prolonged close-up viewing of split panes has been known to cause splitting headaches!
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