Apple MB673Z/A User Manual - Page 204
Determining Which Versions Have Previews, Generating Previews for Smart Albums
UPC - 885909249695
View all Apple MB673Z/A manuals
Add to My Manuals
Save this manual to your list of manuals |
Page 204 highlights
To share previews with other applications: 1 Select the project whose images you want to share with other applications, then choose Maintain Previews for Project from the Project Action pop-up menu (with a gear icon). 2 Make sure the "Share previews with iLife and iWork" checkbox is selected in Aperture (Choose Aperture > Preferences, then click Previews). 3 In the Projects inspector, Control-click the project and choose Update Previews for Project from the shortcut menu. When the previews are built, you can open any of the iLife and iWork applications and use your Aperture images. Generating Previews for Smart Albums You can also create previews for images collected in Smart Albums. For example, you can create previews for highly rated images only. For more information about working with Smart Albums, see Chapter 13,"Grouping Images with Smart Albums," on page 317. To generate previews for Smart Albums: 1 Create a Smart Album and specify criteria for it using the Smart Album's Query HUD. 2 Click in the Browser, then press Command-A to select all the images. 3 Control-click one of the selected images and choose Update Previews from the shortcut menu. When the previews are built, you can share them with iLife and iWork applications or drag them to other applications. Note: Previews for Smart Albums are not automatically maintained-automatic preview maintenance is a project-level and library-level setting only. In this workflow, you need to update the previews yourself periodically, by Control-clicking the images in the album and choosing Update Previews from the shortcut menu. Aperture builds previews only for the versions that have changed, so you don't need to determine which ones to update. Determining Which Versions Have Previews There isn't a badge indicating if a version has a preview. You can Control-click the version and choose Update Preview from the shortcut menu to learn if a version's preview is up to date (if the version's preview is not present or needs updating, Aperture will build it or update it). You can also drag a single version out of the Aperture Browser, and a plus sign (+) appears over the pointer indicating that there is a preview to drag out. If a plus sign (+) does not appear over the pointer, no preview exists for the selected version. 204 Part II Photo Editing