Operation Manual

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 displaying 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:
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Choose View > Browser > List (or press Control-L).
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Click the List View button in the Browser.
List View button
To choose what type of information is displayed in list view
1 Choose View > Metadata Display > Customize (or press Command-J).
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