Lesson 8. Advanced Organization and Rating

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Time		This lesson takes approximately 2 hours to complete.
Goals		Create and edit stacks
		Create keywords and keyword groups
		Apply keywords to images
		Edit metadata in batches
		Define picks and promote/demote alternates in a stack
		Apply star ratings to images
		Define album picks
		Filter images using the Browser Search field and the Query HUD

In Lesson 3, you learned the basics of several of Aperture's organizational features, including stacks, ratings, and albums. In this lesson, we'll explore those features more deeply and learn, among other things, how to manually create and edit stacks, how to add and edit keyword metadata so that you can search for images quickly, and how to apply star ratings to images. All of these techniques will make short work of organizing not just the photos in your archives but also the hundreds of photos that you acquire on heavy shooting days.

To learn about these features, we're going to use Aperture to organize images from an event shoot of the Pickle Family Circus, a San Francisco based performing arts company. We photographed a rehearsal to capture some images for a printed program that provides a behind-the-scenes look at the production. The client asked specifically for images with a documentary, or "found," look. Because many of these shots were action shots of circus performers, we captured a lot of burst sequences. We'll use Aperture's stacking features to organize the images and the keyword and rating features to further sort and filter them.