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Setting Aperture Preferences
An Overview of Aperture Preferences
Aperture provides a Preferences window for specifying settings that control the location of the
Aperture library, the appearance of the Aperture window, the application used to import photos
onto your computer, how photos are exported out of Aperture, how color labels are dened, how
preview images are generated, as well as additional advanced settings. By taking time to specify
your preference settings, you can speed up your workow.
The Aperture Preferences window contains the following controls:
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General button: Click this button to display options for setting the location of the library,
setting the length of time to keep track of recently imported photos, automatically stacking
new versions of the same photo together, enabling scrolling with the mouse to navigate
through photos in the Viewer, enabling face detection, and enabling gestures when using
a Multi-Touch trackpad or Magic Mouse. For more information, see General Preferences on
page 561.
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Appearance button: Click this button to display options for customizing the Aperture interface,
including setting the background brightness level for the Browser, the Viewer, and Full Screen
view, choosing which display to view slideshows on, and displaying tooltips and badges. For
more information, see Appearance Preferences on page 562.
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Import button: Click this button to specify what Aperture should do when a camera is
connected to your computer, whether photos should be imported into a new project or into
the item selected in the Library inspector, and the length of time used to determine when to
automatically split projects. For more information, see Import Preferences on page 563.
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Export button: Click this button to display options for selecting an external editor for changing
your photos, audio, and video outside of Aperture, as well as specifying the email application
and settings you want used when emailing photos. You can also create a copyright statement
that will be included in webpages that you create, as well as specify that photos exported
from Aperture contain location information and Faces metadata (names you have assigned to
people in your photos using Faces). For more information see Export Preferences on page 564.
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Labels button: Click this button to display options for assigning text to color labels. For more
information, see Labels Preferences on page 565.
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Previews button: Click this button to display options for how Aperture creates and displays
preview images. For more information, see Previews Preferences on page 565.
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Photo Stream button: Click this button to display options for turning on Photo Stream in
Aperture, as well as setting Aperture to immediately upload photos to and download photos
from Photo Stream. For more information, see Photo Stream Preferences on page 566.