Operation Manual

Setting Aperture Preferences
Aperture provides a Preferences window for specifying settings that control the location
of the Aperture library, the appearance of the Aperture window, the application used to
import photos onto your computer, how images are exported out of Aperture, how color
labels are defined, how preview images are generated, as well as additional advanced
settings. By taking time to specify your preference settings, you can speed up your
workflow.
To open the Preferences window
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Choose Aperture > Preferences, or press Command-Comma (,).
The Preferences window appears.
The Aperture Preferences window contains the following controls:
• General button: Click this button to display options for setting the location of the library,
enabling face detection, and automatically stacking new versions of the same image
together. For more information, see General Preferences.
• Appearance button: Click this button to display options for customizing the Aperture
interface, including setting the background brightness level for the Browser, the Viewer,
and Full Screen view, choosing which display to view slideshows on, and displaying
tooltips and badges. For more information, see Appearance Preferences.
• Import button: Click this button to specify what Aperture should do when a camera is
connected to your computer, whether images should be imported into a new project
or into the item selected in the Library inspector, and the length of time used to
determine when to automatically split projects. For more information, see Import
Preferences.
• Export button: Click this button to display options for selecting an external editor for
changing your images, audio, and video outside of Aperture, as well as specifying the
email application and settings you want used when emailing images. You can also
create a copyright statement that will be included in webpages that you create, as well
as specify that images exported from Aperture contain location information and Faces
metadata (names you have assigned to people in your images using Faces). For more
information see Export Preferences.
842 Chapter 27 Customizing the Aperture Workspace