Operation Manual

Working with Inspectors
Aperture provides a Library inspector for organizing your photos, audio clips, and video
clips; an Adjustments inspector for applying adjustments; and a Metadata inspector that
allows you to review metadata and assign it to your images. You can show or hide each
inspector by clicking the appropriate tab at the top of the Inspector pane or pressing the
W key. Showing the inspectors is as easy as pressing the I key.
Inspector tabs
Metadata inspector
Rating Images with Aperture
You can rate images as you review them in the Viewer, in the Browser, and in the Full
Screen view Viewer and Browser modes. By selecting an image and pressing a number
key from 0 to 5, you can quickly give the image a rating from one to five stars (with five
stars being the highest, or Select, rating). You can also rate an image as rejected by
pressing the 9 key. Image ratings appear as easy-to-read overlays on the image. Controls
for assigning ratings also appear in the Metadata inspector and the control bar, if you
prefer to use them.
Stars indicate
the rating.
X indicates a
rejected image.
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