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An Overview of Importing Photos
Aperture provides tools and workow options that make it easy to import your photos. You can
import photos directly from your digital camera or card reader, and import photos stored on
your computer hard disk or other storage devices. You can also import audio and video les.
You no longer have to import photos individually from your iPhoto library into Aperture.
Aperture can open, view, and work with iPhoto libraries the same way it works with multiple
Aperture library les. For more information about opening your iPhoto library in Aperture, see An
Overview of Library Files on page 39.
When you import from a digital camera or card reader, Aperture places the photos in a project. If
you don’t select an existing project, a new one is created automatically.
As Aperture imports photos, video les, and audio les, it generates a version le, preview, and
thumbnail corresponding to each original.
Aperture library
(system disk)
Importing
to Aperture
Camera
Import
Back up
Originals
Versions
Project
Vault
(external drive)
RAW
& JPEG
You can import originals directly from a digital camera or card reader and from your hard
disk drives.
When you import photos, you can choose whether to have the originals stored in the Aperture
library or on a hard disk outside of the library, where they can be accessed as referenced images.
For more information about referenced images, see What Are Managed Images and Referenced
Images? on page 28.
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