Operation Manual

Importing Images with the Import Browser
When you connect a digital camera or card reader to your computer, the Import pane
and Import browser appear. You can select your camera or card reader and see the images
you’re about to import. You can select and import all the images or only those you want.
You can also select image files on your hard disk for importing.
When you click this
button, your images
are imported into
the selected project
or a new project.
Specify import
options here.
Select your camera, card
reader, or computer hard
disk here.
After you select the images you want to import, you can specify options for importing
your images. For example, you can specify that your images be imported into the Aperture
library file in the Pictures folder, or you can choose another location in which to store
them. If you have images already stored on a hard disk, you can simply allow Aperture
to access them without changing their current location. You can choose how images are
named and include other information that is recorded with each image to help identify
it. For example, you can specify the event name, date, time, photographer, location, and
copyright information.
You can also specify other import options, such as whether you want Aperture to group
related images together in stacks. For example, if you have bracketed images or images
shot in quick succession, you can have Aperture import these images and stack them
together to make reviewing and working with them easier.
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