Apple Aperture 3.5 User Manual
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Chapter 4
Organize and sort photos
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After you’ve applied keywords to your photos, you can have Aperture display a photo’s keywords
in the Viewer and Browser. You can also view keywords for selected photos in the Info inspector.
Keywords assigned
to a photo
You can use the Smart Settings HUD to quickly locate photos by their keywords, and you can use
Smart Albums to automatically group photos that have specific keywords assigned. For example,
you can create a Smart Album at the library level named Purchased, which automatically groups
all photos with the keyword Purchased. If you want to quickly review the photos your clients
bought over time, all you have to do is open the Smart Album named Purchased.
You can also apply keywords to photos based on your future intentions. For example, you can
create a Smart Web Page Album that gathers photos that have a For Web keyword applied. As
you’re reviewing your photos, apply the keyword For Web to any photo you think is worthy of
being published on your website. All photos with the keyword For Web are now collected in
the Smart Web Page Album. If you later change your mind about publishing a photo on your
website, you can always remove the keyword. As soon as you remove the keyword, the photo is
removed from the Smart Web Page Album.
If you sell your photos to image libraries, you can export the keywords assigned to your photos
as IPTC data. During export, Aperture embeds your keywords individually in the image file as
IPTC-compliant keyword fields. The more keywords you apply to your photos, the more likely it
is that your photos will be located by potential customers. For more information, see
metadata and keywords to your photos
on page 370.
Important:
If you’re planning to export your keywords as IPTC data, make sure your keyword
phrases are no more than 64 characters in length. Longer keyword phrases may not be displayed
properly in other IPTC editors or operating systems.
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