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An Overview of the Browser
After a shoot, you may need to sort through hundreds or even thousands of photos in a project.
Aperture provides ecient methods for increasing your productivity when working with large
numbers of photos.
The Browser provides the principal environment for viewing, selecting, and working with photos.
You can quickly search for a photo in a project, reorder and sort photos, rotate photos to portrait
or landscape orientation, create new versions, and delete photos.
When you select a project, folder, or album in the Library inspector, thumbnails of its photos
appear in the Browser. You select photos in the Browser to work with them. You can move and
rearrange photos, rotate photos, make new versions, and delete photos from a project.
Sorting
pop-up menu
Search field
Thumbnail Resize slider
Grid View and
List View buttons
Tool strip
Aperture provides fast and ecient ways of selecting photos. You can use the arrow keys to
quickly select a photo or multiple photos to work on. You can also select photos by clicking,
dragging a selection rectangle, and using keyboard shortcuts. If using Aperture with a trackpad,
you can use the swipe gesture to select photos. For more information about using gestures with
Aperture, see Using Gestures with Aperture on page 599.
You can display photos in the Browser in lmstrip view, grid view, and list view.
Working with Photos in
the Browser
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