Apple Aperture 3.5 - Manual (Page 85)

Chapter 4 Organize and sort photos 85
Lighten or darken the background of the Browser
Depending on your work preferences, you may want to lighten or darken the background that
your thumbnails appear against in the Browser. The darker the background, the less it interferes
with the colors in your photo. It’s a good idea to set the background to a dark color when
performing color adjustments to your photo. You can darken the background from shades of
gray all the way to black, or lighten it from gray to white.
1 Choose Aperture > Preferences, or press Command-Comma (,).
2 In the Preferences window, click Appearance and drag the Browser Background Brightness slider
to lighten or darken the background, then close the window.
Work with photos in list view
Instead of displaying thumbnails, list view displays photos by name and icon with accompanying
information such as rating, image dimensions, file size, and date.
Switch to list view
Do one of the following:
m Choose View > Browser > List (or press Control-L).
m Click the List View button in the Browser.
Choose what type of information is displayed in list view
1 Choose View > Metadata Display > Customize (or press Command-J).
2 In the Browser & Viewer Metadata dialog, choose a list view option from the View pop-up menu.
Disclosure triangle
3 In the Metadata Fields column, click the disclosure triangles next to the main groups of metadata
to reveal the options within them.
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