Operation Manual

Locating Your Images on a Map with Places
In Aperture, you can use Places to organize your images by the locations where they were
taken. If you have a GPS-enabled digital camera or iPhone, Aperture categorizes the
images by location and converts the GPS location tags to place names, such as Vancouver,
Canada. You can explore where your images were shot using the Places view.
Places view
The location badge
indicates that location
information has been
assigned to the image.
If your images were not captured with a GPS-enabled camera or iPhone, you can manually
enter location information for single photos or entire projects. Add locations to your
photos by typing the name of a place, entering an address, placing a pin on the map, or
dragging images to a specific location on the map. Then, when you want to find photos
you shot in New York City or the Grand Canyon, just type the place name in the search
field.
For more information about using Places to organize your images by location, see Locating
and Organizing Images with Places.
Automatically Grouping Images with Smart Albums
Photographers often need an easy way of regrouping and presenting images based on
the needs of a client or project. For example, a corporate client might call to request
images of a general location or subject, such as wildlife, to be included with future
collateral. Aperture allows you to make selections from across the entire library of images
and group them in Smart Albums, which are albums that can be dynamically generated
based on search criteria you specify.
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