Apple Aperture Getting Started - Manual (Page 73)

Chapter 6 Working with Images in the Browser 73
Adjusting the Background of the Browser
You may want to lighten or darken the background of the Browser to better view your
thumbnails. You can darken the background from shades of gray all the way to black,
or lighten it from gray to white.
Note: A darker background interferes less with the colors in your image, and is good
for performing color adjustments on your images.
To change the background of the Browser:
1 Choose Aperture > Preferences.
2 In the Preferences window, drag the Grid View Background Brightness slider to lighten
or darken the background, then close the window.
Navigating Through and Selecting Images
To work on images, you’ll need to review them in the Browser. You can use the arrow
keys or menu commands to navigate to images in the Browser.
To navigate to images, do one of the following:
m Press an arrow key to move left, right, up, or down.
m In the control bar, click the Previous Image or Next Image button.
Aperture provides fast and efficient ways of selecting images, depending on your work
style and preferences. Images you’ve selected have a white border. When you select a
group of images, the actively selected image, called the primary selection, appears with a
thick white border and the rest of the selected images appear with thin white borders.
Previous Image button Next Image button
All selected images
display a thin white
border.
A thick white border surrounds
the primary selection.