Advanced preferences – Apple Aperture 3.5 User Manual

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Chapter 13

Customize the Aperture workspace

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The Accounts preference pane contains the following controls:

Accounts column: Select the account you want to modify in this column.

Add button (+): Click this button to add one or more Flickr, Facebook, or SmugMug accounts.

Remove button (–) : Click this button to delete the selected account from Aperture.

Important:

All albums associated with the deleted Flickr, Facebook, or SmugMug account are

removed from Aperture. However, the albums, sets, or galleries and their photos still appear in
the Flickr, Facebook, or SmugMug account.

“Automatically check for newly published albums” checkbox: Choose whether you want Aperture
to check regularly for new albums published outside of Aperture to your Flickr, Facebook, and
SmugMug accounts or whether you want to update the accounts manually.

Advanced preferences

Use the controls in the Advanced preference pane to specify the display threshold for hot
and cold areas of images, add tolerance to Auto Levels adjustments, choose whether clipping
overlays are displayed in color or monochrome, specify that Aperture look up photo location
information when photos are imported, and specify that Aperture create a new version when
you adjust an image.

The Advanced preference pane contains the following controls:

“Hot Area threshold” slider: You can view an image’s hot areas (where highlight data in any
color channel has been clipped) by choosing View > Highlight Hot & Cold Areas. To adjust the
threshold used to determine an image’s hot areas, drag the slider.

“Cold Area threshold” slider: You can view an image’s cold areas (where black data in any color
channel has been clipped) by choosing View > Highlight Hot & Cold Areas. To adjust the
threshold used to determine an image’s cold areas, drag the slider.

“Auto adjust Black Clip” slider: Use the “Auto adjust Black Clip” slider and value slider to add
tolerance to Auto Levels adjustments when evaluating colors beyond black.

“Auto adjust White Clip” slider: Use the “Auto adjust White Clip” slider and value slider to add
tolerance to Auto Levels adjustments when evaluating colors beyond white.

“Clipping overlay” pop-up menu: Choose color or monochrome for the display of your
clipping overlays.

“Look up Places” pop-up menu: Specify that Aperture look up photo location information as the
photos are imported.

“Include location information for published photos” checkbox: Select this checkbox to have
Aperture include any location information with the photos you share online.

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