Display photos with badge overlays – Apple Aperture 3.5 User Manual

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Chapter 6

Work with metadata

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Badge

Definition

The photo is an album’s pick photo, the identifying photo for that album,
webpage album, web journal album, Light Table album, slideshow album,
or book album.

Because of low image resolution, the photo’s print quality may be affected.
This badge appears on photos placed in book pages and webpages.

The number indicates the number of times the photo has been used in a
given book, web journal, or Light Table arrangement.

The photo is a referenced image.

The referenced image’s original is offline.

The referenced image’s original has not been found.

The photo was downloaded from My Photo Stream or a shared photo
stream, or imported from a Facebook album, Flickr set, or SmugMug
gallery online.

A location has been assigned to the photo.

The photo has an audio file attached.

The thumbnail image represents a video clip.

The photo is part of a RAW + JPEG image pair, and this photo’s original is
the RAW file.

The photo is part of a RAW + JPEG image pair, and this photo’s original is
the JPEG file.

Display photos with badge overlays

Badge visibility is determined by the metadata overlay view that is displayed. You can control
whether badges are visible by choosing a metadata overlay view that includes badge overlays;
you can also control whether badge overlays are visible by turning metadata overlays on or off.

Important:

Badge overlays appear only in the Aperture application; they do not appear on

photos exported or printed from Aperture.

Display badge overlays on photos in the Viewer and Browser

1

Do one of the following:

Choose View > Metadata Display > Customize (or press Command-J).

In the tool strip, choose Edit from the Metadata Overlays pop-up menu.

The Browser & Viewer Metadata dialog appears.

2

Do the following:

To display badge overlays on photos in the Viewer: Choose a Viewer metadata overlay view from
the View pop-up menu.

To display badge overlays on photos in the Browser: Choose a Grid View metadata overlay view
from the View pop-up menu.

3

In the Metadata Fields column, click the Aperture disclosure triangle to reveal the metadata fields

below it, then select the Badges checkbox.

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