Operation Manual

• Histogram: Displays the selected image’s luminance or color channels. The histogram
displays a graph of the brightness values in the image, from the blackest point to the
whitest point. You can adjust the histogram to show luminance; red, green, and blue
(RGB) channels displayed together; or separate red, green, and blue channels.
• Adjustment Action pop-up menu: Choose a histogram view, remove selected or all
adjustments applied to an image, and choose whether to display color and camera
information below the histogram. You can also choose the type of color values and
the sample size from this pop-up menu.
• Reset button: Click the Reset button for an adjustment to reset the controls to their
default settings.
• Adjustments: Click the disclosure triangle for an adjustment to view its controls. Select
the checkbox for an adjustment to apply changes using the adjustment controls.
Toolbar
The toolbar is a collection of buttons and tools located at the top of the Aperture main
window. The toolbar is shown by default, but you can hide it by choosing View > Hide
Toolbar (or pressing Shift-T).
You can customize the toolbar, adding items for the functions you use most, or removing
less frequently used toolbar items. For more information, see Customizing the Toolbar.
Note: Because you can customize the toolbar by adding and removing buttons and
controls, your toolbar may look different from the one pictured in this manual. To reset
the toolbar to its default arrangement, Control-click the toolbar and choose Customize
Toolbar from the shortcut menu, then drag the default set of controls at the bottom of
the dialog to the toolbar.
Left Side of Toolbar
The following are the default buttons and controls on the left side of the toolbar.
• Inspector button: Click this button to show and hide the Inspector pane, the Library
inspector, the Metadata inspector, and the Adjustments inspector.
• Import button: Click this button to show the Import pane and open the Import browser.
For more information about controls in the Import pane, see Import Pane.
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