Sizing and Positioning Images


In Aperture, you can adjust the size and positions of the thumbnails on index pages as well as the size of images on detail pages. And as you saw when you edited the caption metadata, you can also conveniently jump to the Viewer to inspect or edit images while you're working with them in the Webpage Editor. Let's make a few tweaks to the images in our web journal.

1.

Click Detail Page 1 in the Detail Images panel.

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Click the up and down arrow buttons on the right side of the Detail Images panel to preview other image detail pages in the web journal.

The image on the detail page could be slightly larger than the default value.

2.

Drag the Width value slider to 700 or type 700 into the field.

Aperture updates the image size in the preview area. The good news is that Aperture applies the new size to all of the detail page images. You can't resize them individually. The image aspect ratio remains untouched, and the image sizes itself to the smaller of the two values.

3.

Select the South Beach page in the Journal Pages panel.

You can also resize images on index pages as well as control the number of columns that appear and the size of the thumbnails. The default image size and three-column layout look pretty good for our web journal, but let's rearrange the order of the images.

4.

Drag Image 27 (SoBe_2005 3 of 50) to the upper left corner of the webpage, releasing the mouse button when a green line appears to the left of Image 20. SoBe_2005 3 of 50 becomes Image 20 and Aperture renumbers the other images accordingly.

SoBe_2005 3 of 50 works in the first position, but as you may recall from Lesson 4, we cropped it slightly for printing purposes. Now, in the web journal, it seems out of place compared with the other images.

5.

With Image 20 (SoBe_2005 3 of 50) selected, click the "Show Viewer for this Browser" button on the upper left of the Browser.

The Webpage Editor is hidden and the selected image appears in the Viewer.

6.

Press C to select the Crop tool. Make sure the Constrain checkbox in the Crop HUD is deselected.

7.

Drag the right edge of the crop area to include the rightmost cluster of birds, and pull the bottom handle up slightly. Then, press Return to accept the adjustment.

8.

Click the "Show Viewer for this Browser" button again to return to the Webpage Editor.

The adjusted image appears in the preview area and it now more closely matches the other images on the webpage.

9.

Drag Image 23 (SoBe_2005 8 of 50) to the last position on the page.

Nice. Now the sunset shots frame the other images on the page. The other index pages look pretty good, so now is a good time to kick back and preview all of the images in the web journal. You can do that by watching a slideshow.




Apple Pro Training Series(c) Aperture 1.5
Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 1.5
ISBN: 0321496620
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 190

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