Operation Manual

Working with Adjustment Presets
If you frequently use the same adjustment parameter settings, you can save these settings
as adjustment presets. You can create new adjustment presets, rename and rearrange
adjustment presets, and delete adjustment presets you no longer use. When you create
an adjustment preset, it appears in the Presets pop-up menu. You can create adjustment
presets for individual adjustments or for a set of multiple adjustments. For example, you
can create an adjustment preset for creating black-and-white images. When your workflow
calls for creating a set of black-and-white images, you simply choose your saved preset
from the Presets pop-up menu at the top of the Adjustments inspector or the Adjustments
pane of the Inspector HUD.
When you delete an adjustment preset, adjustments already applied to your images are
unaffected.
About Adjustment Presets from Previous Versions of Aperture
In previous versions of Aperture, presets for single adjustments were accessible via the
Preset Action pop-up menu for each adjustment. Presets were created and stored in
the preset dialog for that adjustment. If you created and saved adjustment presets in a
previous version of Aperture, the adjustment presets now appear in the Presets pop-up
menu at the top of the Adjustments inspector or the Adjustments pane of the Inspector
HUD. If you want to remove adjustment presets created in previous versions of Aperture,
see Deleting Adjustment Presets.
Creating Adjustment Presets
Creating an individual adjustment preset is as simple as saving the adjustment parameter
settings and naming the preset using the Presets pop-up menu and the Adjustment
Presets dialog.
To create an individual adjustment preset
1 Select an image with the adjustment parameter settings you want to save.
444 Chapter 16 An Overview of Image Adjustments