Apple Aperture 3.5 - Manual (Page 186)

Chapter 5 View and compare photos 186
You can use the Light Table to:
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Color correct many related photos. You can arrange related photos together and carefully
compare the color values between photos.
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Sort photos into related piles. After sorting, you can select groups of photos and assign
keywords to all the photos in a group at once.
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Create editorial layouts, arranging photos onscreen to tell a story. You can put the selects from
a given project in the Light Table and arrange them so that they progress visually, eliminating
repetitive photos. As you group and pair photos of the same subject, you’ll find the Light Table
ideal for examining the relationships between photos.
After arranging photos in the Light Table, you can print the arrangement. For more information,
see
Print Light Table arrangements on page 355.
Create and delete Light Table albums
To view photos in the Light Table, you first create a Light Table album. You can create a new,
empty album and drag photos into it, or you can select photos in a project and create a Light
Table album to hold them.
If you no longer need a Light Table album, you can delete it. If you’ve transferred photos from
the Light Table album to other projects or albums, the photos in the other projects and albums
remain unchanged, even though the Light Table versions are gone.
Create a new, empty Light Table album
1 In the Library inspector, select the project or folder where you want the new Light Table album
to appear.
If you want the Light Table to appear in the Light Tables section of the Library inspector,
select Projects.
2 Do one of the following:
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Choose File > New > Light Table.
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Control-click the item in the Library inspector, and choose New > Light Table from the
shortcut menu.
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Choose Light Table from the New pop-up menu in the toolbar.
Choose Light Table
from the New pop-up
menu in the toolbar.
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