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II Depending on your work preferences, you may want to lighten or darken the background that your thumbnails appear against in the Browser. The darker the background, the less it interferes with the colors in your image. It's a good idea to set the background to a dark color when performing color adjustments to your images. You can darken the background from shades of gray all the way to black, or lighten it from gray to white. To lighten or darken the background of the Browser: 1 Choose Aperture > Preferences, or press Command-Comma (,). 2 In the Preferences window, click Appearance and drag the Browser Background Brightness slider to lighten or darken the background, then close the window. Working with Images in List View Instead of thumbnails, list view displays images by name and icon with accompanying information such as rating, image dimensions, file size, and date. To switch to list view, do one of the following: m Choose View > Browser > List (or press Control-L). m Click the List View button in the Browser. List View button To choose what type of information is displayed in list view: 1 Choose Aperture > Preferences, or press Command-Comma (,). 2 In the Preferences window, click Metadata. 3 In the List View Columns section, choose a display option from the Set 1 pop-up menu. Columns in the Browser immediately change to display the information you selected. 4 Close the Preferences window. One of the main advantages of list view is that you can quickly sort images based on a category of information. When you click a column heading in list view, Aperture reorders the images, sorting them by that category. For example, you might sort your images by date. Chapter 5 Working with Images in the Browser 157