Operation Manual

Sharing Images with iLife and iWork Applications
The Aperture library is accessible from within iLife and iWork applications so you can
easily share and use your photos in iLife and iWork projects and documents. You can also
import your entire iPhoto library into Aperture, or you can open the iPhoto Browser in
Aperture and review and select iPhoto images that you want to import. Any adjustments
or metadata applied to your images in iPhoto are preserved and can be edited in Aperture.
All Faces and Places information is preserved as well. iLife and iWork applications can
export documents in Aperture-compatible formats that can be imported into Aperture
and associated with projects.
For more information about copying your images from iPhoto to Aperture, see Importing
Images from iPhoto.
Backing Up Your Work
After importing images from your camera and erasing memory cards in preparation for
the next shoot, the only record of your images is stored on your hard disks. It’s vital that
you back up your files on storage media separate from your computer and its hard disks.
Backing up your photos and storing the backups in a safe place can save your work from
catastrophes such as fire, theft, storm-related disruptions, or equipment failure.
Aperture backs up your managed images (images that are stored in the Aperture library)
and all information associated with the images, such as versions, metadata, and previews,
on vaults located on hard disk drives. Aperture doesn’t back up the masters of referenced
images located outside the Aperture library. You must maintain your own backup system
for referenced masters. Aperture does back up the versions, previews, and metadata
information associated with referenced images, but not the masters themselves.
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