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Class 1: Part 1

So this is the new aperture three interface. I want to talk a little bit about the best experience. You'll have an aperture in terms of your systems. So let's start there. If you have a computer with a fast GPU, not a C P, but a fast GP, you're gonna have the best aperture experience because apertures very GP or graphics processing unit dependent. In the old days, this software all ran on the CPU, but now we're on the GPS, so it's actually better to have a less expensive computer if you can't afford the top of the line and spend your money on the GPU. The other thing that aperture likes is memory and lots of it. The more ram you can get, the better off you'll be. And what do we say about Ram? You can never have too much Kentucky Fried Chicken, too much money or too much ram. So, uh, that's the way to go. And lastly, we wanna have fast, hard drive 7200 rpm drives are what we want. If you're using slower drives in that you're not gonna have the best experience. Um, I actually I'm not spo...

nsored by G drive. I don't know what the relationship with creative draw alive is, but I can tell you I use the G drops. That's what I use all day long. I brought a presentation here today on the G drives. They're the fastest quietest drives. Ah, and well built. So that's what I recommend. If you use G drives, you have a lot of stuff. Then you gotta look at bigger solutions like drove owes or what I happen to use now, which are promised drives, which are 16 terabyte drives. That air fast rate a raise, but that's only if you've got thousands and thousands of pictures so getting getting into aperture and looking at it, the first thing I want you to do is go open the aperture menu and get the preferences up because we want to make sure that we get our preferences set to get the best experience. And let's just sort of walk through this quickly in the general tab. The first thing you're going to see very important is you're going to see where your your library is stored. If you have pictures in aperture and they're being managed by aperture, they're being stored in what's called a library, and this is going to give you the physical location. You can change that. You can also click this reveal button, which will actually show you that in the finder, which is kind of cool. Um, they didn't used to have that before. Now, I don't want you to I don't want to get too worried about this because a lot of times people ask me when they're storing pictures in the aperture library, they're like, Well, I can't get him back there in this library. And they're held hostage. No, because the library is just a package and a package is just a fancy term for an icon representing something. I'm going to try to move this out of the way. I see this little thing right up here that says G Dr Mini, that's a package that represents the hard drive. I happened tohave attached to this computer. If you double click it, you can see what's inside. It will. The aperture library requires a little bit more work than that, but you can actually get into it and physically mess with the finals. If you want your all your original tiffs and PSD s and whenever you brought in are there now. I don't recommend you play with those because if you put him in the wrong place, the aperture library library may send you. Little message goes high. You don't have picture that's supposed to be here. It's not here anymore. So I would recommend you. Don't mess with it, but it's there, so you don't need to worry about that. Um, the options on the general tab you want to look at is you can automatically stack new versions. Let me tell you what stacking is stacking is when you bring in a bunch of pictures that were shot in a short burst like and they all might be very similar, but just a slight change. You can choose to automatically stack them so they're all standing on top of each other, gives you more screen real estate. I don't automatically do it. It's easy to do it later, but if you want to do it automatically, you can. You can click scroll to navigate photos in the viewer. I don't mess with that. You can click enable faces. I love to disable that, and the reason is is I'm not gonna get you the faces thing is still little cookie. Um, you know, that's Latin for Doesn't work real good. Um, were you know, if you want to use faces, go for it. But it definitely slows the performance down, and it has cost in crashes. It's one of the last things to be fixed. And, yes, I am no longer sponsored by apple. Um, inside Interrupt. But could you just explain for folks that don't know what faces is? Just Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna cover faces, just basically lets you connect the dots using facial recognition software so that it says, Oh, that's Aunt Jane. And then it goes, Is this Aunt Jane? And the problem is, they take the picture I shot of a gorilla in Rwanda and say, Is this Aunt Jane? And I'm pretty sure my Aunt Jane would be offended by that question, so we don't you know. But if you want to mess with it, go ahead. I know that Apple is working on both faces in places, tightening them up, and I'm sure in the next rev will get those fixed. Let's move to appearance. This is your next thing you can control viewer brightness. See the viewer in the background. That's the viewer. Do you like to have a complete black background when you look at your photos, as many people do? Do you like a complete white background? The default is 18% gray. Me personally. I like a known black, so I set mind black. This is purely to taste. It's chocolate, vanilla, strawberry. It's all ice cream. Whatever. You're lying. You know, um, we have the full screen Bure brightness. I don't mess with that. The browser brightness. I don't mess with that, but the viewer brightness I like to set to zero. Now, if you have two displays and many of you do these days cause monitors air getting cheap, you can decide how you want things to work. Whether you're slide shows, for instance, are gonna be on the second display or the main display by default. You also have the opportunity to click the loading indicator while full size photos load. You know, I like to do that because it gives me an idea where I'm at Show tool tips on controls. If you are new to aperture, I highly highly recommend that you enable this preference. That means when you're in aperture and you float the mouse over a tool, it's going to give you the shortcut for to tell you what it does. So that's very good thing. If you're brand new to aperture, show the number of versions for projects and albums. If you have an image which apertures created as a version, meaning it's a copy of the master file, you can see how many of those arm in projects and albums. I personally don't find that all that useful. So I click it off. Badge referenced items were going to get into this. When we make some adjustments, that would be a little icon that pops up on the picture that tells you you've changed something. If this is not enabled, you won't see that little icon. So it's kind of a nice way to say when you're looking your pictures, like two years from now you go. Did I mess with that? Or is that right out of the camera like that? Well, if you messed with it, the badge will tell you if you don't check this, there'll be no badge, so I like to check it And then if you're using faces, you can use this kind of smarmy little court board thing to put the faces on, which looks like you've taken a Polaroid and stuck a pin through it and put the faces picture on there. I'm going to promptly uncheck that import. Do you want to use aperture when you connect your digital camera? Now it's completely up to you. If apertures the only program you use then you might want to say yes, you might want to pick another program or you can decide later. You just click the decide later button, and away you go. And at this point, you'll see the applications you could choose are all here. And it'll ask you what you want to do in terms of imports on default. So a new project is what I prefer, and then auto split into projects. You can take projects and split them into smaller groups. I haven't found that all that useful yet, but I'm still playing with it. Export. Very important. Very important. This particular tab. I know this preferences stuff is not the sexiest thing we're gonna cover during the show. But, boy, if you don't get this right. You're gonna wish you did. Um, when it comes to export, you want to pick your external photo editor here? If any of you guys here using a Photoshopped, I need to see hands. Because, you see, the nodding doesn't translate very well to the creative live audience. Um, we had a lot of hands. I'm assuming they might be able to be seen on the camera if use photo shop and you want to guess that can't be seen on the camera, so it doesn't matter, but at least it makes me know what you're saying. Um, if you want to use Photoshopped to do we call round tripping your images meaning you can work on them an aperture and then send them to photo shop and do some magic to him there and then bring them back to aperture. You need to tell aperture where that app iss so you click, choose, and then you go through here and you go, Oh, I'm looking for photo shop CS four and you click it and away you go. But since this isn't my computer, I'm not gonna do that. Then it ask you how you want to send those files as tiffs or Photoshopped Finals eight or 16 bit meet Personally, I like to send them to photo shop when that's my external editor as Photoshopped 16 bit files and I like to use 16 bit because the more data, the better. Explain wine a little bit later, probably next week. Ah, but if you're not using photo shop and using some other kind of editor, I recommend tiffs. Tiff stands for tagged image file format. PSD stands for photo shop something D Photoshopped document. Yeah, it was a joke. Weren't supposed to tell the answer. That's OK. Um, now the color space we have many to choose from. My recommendation is Adobe RGB 1998 and we're not gonna have the whole big debate here over whether extended ranges are a good idea. I'm giving you my recommendation based on what I do. Um, if you're going to never, ever, ever, ever times a 1,000,000 ever, ever, ever times another 1,000,000 make a print of one year photographs in the arrest of all eternity and Onley. Only only times a 1,000,000 gonna put your images on the web or online, then I would say make that s RGB. But if you're going to work anywhere else, ever or it may even possibly let's work with a wider color gamut. This has to do with how many colors aperture can put in the palate for you to work with. Now, if you have an external audio and video editor like final cut pro or soundtrack pro, and you want to be able to round trip your videos as well, this is where you would select those. And if you want to be able to use apertures built in email function so that you can quickly click a button, an email, a photo to somebody you want to pick the program, your choices are America Online. Come on. What is this 18 75? Well, all three of you with American Online's accounts Please tell us, uh, that's one of the choices. Meaning Forget it. Ah, male, which is Max Internal mail program, Eudora and Microsoft Exchange. Those are your choices. Love them all. Um, then it's going to ask you how you want to send this, and there's a whole bunch of presets here. The apertures already made for you. So you can say I want to send it is a J peg tiff a ping recommended. Typically for email, we're gonna go with J pay. And typically, we don't want to use a really big file for an email. So maybe we're gonna go with 50% of original size or yeah, go down here toe edit. And this gives us the ability to click this little plus button and make some new kind of preset. This case will say Scott preset and it allows us to say include made a data or not. The file will be about six kilobytes smaller if we don't, and I'm going to say fit within pixels. And then I'm gonna say no more than 6 40 on any side. And then, you know, there are a few monitors out there these days at 96 pp I but 72 will work, and I'm going to use the S RGB color profile because I'm converting to J. Peg. I do recommend the use of black point compensation and if you're very paranoid and you want to, you can even create a watermark. Click here, show watermark position that you have to have an image already built as your watermark on the desktop or on your computer somewhere, but we'll skip that. So I just made my own preset. You can modify presets, etcetera. Click. OK, and that's how I would do the email. There's a ton of control in aperture when it comes to this kind of stuff. Now, remember when I said Let's think conceptually what I just showed you applies to virtually every preset in aperture. I showed you how to edit and create your own presets. Every single thing we do an aperture where presets are involved. It's the same exact interface. It's the same exact methodology. So if you've learned at once now you can go brag about. I know how to edit all the presets inhabit your baby because they're all the same, just exactly like that. This is why this thinking conceptual is important because apertures very good at sticking to its guns. When you do it this way, you tend to do it this way throughout the program a whole bunch of different ways so you can include location info on exported photos. Those of you anybody here in the geo tagging your the one guy No two guys do you have When I was little Geo tagged things on your camera. He did have one. Now he just uses aperture. So if you if you do geo tag and I'm assuming it's important to you, you'll want to include that location data maybe when you're sending things and you can include face info, which is, you know, remarkably unuseful to me. But perhaps it will be to you. Me. I revel in being ableto unchecked both these boxes from myself, because, you know, I can always figure out where I took the photo because I was there. Um, I still don't get the geo tagging thing afterwards. You need to help me understand what I'm missing, cause I know part of its I'm just old. So therefore, I'm just not cool, and that's cool. So therefore cannot apply to me. But someday I need to figure it out. Labels labels is new the way you can use labels and aperture. And let me tell you, I'm primarily a wildlife photographer and I'm primarily within my wildlife photography and avian photographer. I photographed birds and what this is really cool is how this is cools. I have 500, bird photos in my library. And believe it or not, some magazine buyers who use these photos are as disinterested in the images can be to the point of saying you got in pictures or red birds because we got a red cover and we thought a red bird would look really good on the red cover. You know nothing deflate your ego, like finding out that you are just art to an art director and nothing else matters that you like stood in the wind for five days to catch this very rare red bird. So I used these to actually code the colors of the birds I photographed because I start to get all kinds of questions about that. But what's really cool is you can change these labels. Somebody watching did not know that you can just simply click here and say, From now on, Red means I mean, for instance, fire our wedding photographer. And there was a mean grandma who was haunting me for the entire wedding. I would have signed the red label to her, and that would be mean. And then orange would be nice for the nice grandma, and then yellow would be bride. All the pictures of the bride would be yellow and then groom. Well, we really don't need a groom selection because he's basically there to say I do. And they take one picture of him and we move on. But we'll go ahead and put groom. But you see how this can work. You can assign these colors and the value you want. Can we get a little bit of applause to apple for that? Because I just think we're getting some aid. By the way, ladies and gentlemen from the chat room, they are applauding in terms of, you know, the live honest. Sir, do you have a question? Does aperture allow you to import files into specific folders? Yes. And we're going to do that in just a minute. Previews. Aperture creates J pig previews of your photos. You get to decide if you wanted to be automatically done or if you want to just go ahead and use the embedded J peg because many cameras air now doing in bed A J pegs and then it wants to know if you're gonna share these previews with other apple products in the eye life and I work sweet, and it wants to know what size. Basically, you can fill all this out to your heart's content the way you like to do it. But just so you know, I do like to automatically generate previews because it's just speeds thing up things up later, but it slows down the import process, so that's the trade off. If you don't mind slowing down the import process, click there if you want the import process just to be P. D. Q. Pretty darn quick, Then go ahead and uncheck that. And if you've got embedded J pegs that will speed things up to now me, I don't share with I photo I life. I worked my aperture stuff because I tend to do professional level publishing, so I don't do that, and it's just say it just saves time. If I don't have to have aperture build the connection point between the two, it takes a little longer. If you do that. The photo preview. I actually don't limit my photo previews because I like to work with very high quality J pigs when I'm doing the previews. You, however, may have the absolute opposite experience and may want to go down here to the half size or 80 by 12 80. That's strictly a matter of choice. Just remember, the larger the preview, the longer it will take. So that's all. And then the photo preview quality, I I hang out down here like 6 to 7, and I get really good results. Web, Your mobile me account configuration is not correct. If you click Web and you don't have mobile me, you're gonna get this. And Web is a little preference if you don't have mobile me. But you can skip past that screen and do some other stuff here. But frankly, it's mostly for mobile. Me advanced. Now this is the hot area threshold and cold area threshold. This has to do with clipping. This is where apertures going to make a determination. At what point are you clipping so you can cheat this back a little bit? We used in the old Photoshopped days we used to cheat. This backed about 98% on the hot area in about 2% on the cold area. But to tell you the truth, I don't see a big difference in aperture three. So I'm leaving him at a zero on 100%. That means, you know that we're going to just trust that aperture knows where the clipping is. Clipping means that you have blown out whites or blocked up or no details in the blacks. Um, and then you can adjust those. I leave these typically right about here, I think. But I brought my own copy of aperture just to double check because I've been experimenting with this An aperture three. It's a little different experience, then, Uh, what I had an aperture to this program has been quite a bit reworked. And let me just double check. Yep, I do. Still leaving it, Uh, at 10% or less. I've actually been experimenting with 0% here and getting OK clipping overlay in color or monochrome. I prefer color. And look up places for me. Never. Because once again, that is going to slow things down. Create new versions when making adjustments. This is a personal preference that I happen to say yes to. Whenever I make an adjustment, aperture will automatically create a new version. Now, you might be thinking to yourself, but Scott, that's gonna take up a lot of hard disk space. E Because it's not, it's all virtual. Anybody from the video world might be familiar with the term E D. L at a display list. Basically, what's going on here is we're just creating an XML file. It's a text file of which you can, in fact, actually look at using any text editor, and you could just see the lines of code. It's about 68 kilobytes, so aperture isn't actually making a new copy of your photo. It's making a virtual copy, but the physical presentation of that is easier to deal with when you say, Well, here's the one I didn't work with And here's the one I did work with. It's actually all the same file. Nothing actually happens to you render. But I I like to have it, you know, do it automatically. You may not care. It's confusing. To some people, it's a personal preference. Did that make sense because it didn't sound like it makes sense when he said, But it made sense in my mind, but not out of my mouth. Okay, so we've gone through all that. Any questions on the preferences? I have a question in the audience on the labels, if you change. Initially, you said, you know, you used Red Bird, and then later you said used mean it changes through the hole things. Have you changed it? It changes all. Yeah, that's gonna be your permanent, Your permanent change to the label every time you use that color from now on, unless you go in and change it again. Yes, I have a question is as well in terms of somebody who's a nude aperture who's coming from from using high photo and photo shop and so said so I have I have, um Hi. My high photo library. Plus, I have a bunch of other, um, for folders that I have have pictures and is the best to bring them all in tow. Happen, aperture. Or is it okay? Toe, Leave them where they are. Just depends. If you want to have access to them an aperture, you'll need to bring them in. Or you can do what's called reference files that we're gonna get to that in just a little bit. All right. Thank you. Yes, I have some questions from from the chat room. Several folks wanted to know why you choose the Black point compensation as a default. It's an extraordinarily scientific reason some guy told me to. And that guy, the big shot at Apple Joe Joe is his name. Actually, one of the engineers at Apple said, You'll get better results if you do that. I had to sit down with the aperture team back in the day when it first came out, and he said, I think you should use Black Point compensation And here's the kind of guy I am. When a dude who works at Apple wearing like a white coat who has, like five special security doors he has to go through to get to his office, says, Use Black Point compensation. That's why I do it. Probably not the answer they were looking for. But it's the truth. Scott from Twitter hito in France ass Is it possible to create a library on a USB external drive? It is, he's getting errors. Well, then he has some sort of problem beyond the scope of this session. But tell him to email me and I'll try to work it through. And another question from chat that some other folks answered. But for Those folks were not in Chet that they would like to know Can aperture convert to DMG upon import? Yes. Oh yes. Folks were saying no, You can convert DMG if you Now I maybe I don't understand the question you can import TNG we're burning it. You can go on import can imported TNG but you, you know, function toe automatically important raw files. Okay, thank you Can imported. Right? Okay, Thanks. Yes, I have a question from the chat room. Does aperture three actually delete the orphan previews Thumbnails, etcetera from the package when a master file is deleted if you actually go through and we're gonna get to this in a minute if you actually go through and delete delete it goes to the aperture trash. And then if you delete the aperture trash, it goes to the system trash. And if you delete the system trash, it's just like the constitution. Its history. Okay. Thank you. Okay, let's get into the next step. I want to talk about Ah, the interface. Really quickly. Um, it's very customizable. You can make just about anything you want be anywhere you want. The main three icons you want to mess with her right here. This is the browser view, the split view and the viewer view. Now, I'm gonna actually go ahead and enable the photograph here. So the browser view is going to show you a bunch of photographs from your folder. The split view is going to create a little time line down here that you can work with, and the viewer is just going to simply bring the image up full screen within the window. So these are your three primary sections that you want to play with. Now, if you hit the wiki, I'm not the world's smartest guy. When it comes to shortcuts, I want to tell you right now, part of getting old is I got you know, I got the Alzheimer's a little early, so I can't remember all of them. But this is the one I remember a lot cause I use a lot. The wiki will cycle through the So if you don't wanna mess with clicking on these icons, you could just hit the wiki and switch through them. That's kind of a cool thing. Um, now, over here are the next three most important things to know about these air, the library, the meditator data and the adjustments taps, and you'll spend some time with all three of these in aperture three. This is all considerably streamlined over what it used to be. An aperture one and two. I like it much better this way so you can see the library view. This lets you know what you got going on here is the made a data of any given picture. And here's how you make adjustments. Here's how you tweak photos So those three in conjunction with the View give you an awful lot of power. Now the rest of these buttons noticed that when I put my mouse cursor over this, you see it says what it is. It's the show. Or hide the inspector notice. The inspector went away. Now the inspector comes back. Also noticed the little I out here. That's the short cut key. Not all of them have buttons. Sorry. New flicker album. This would create a new flicker album for you. So you see, when you just point your mouse something. This is why I said it was important. If you're new to aperture to go ahead and able this preference now, if you leave it there, it will eventually go away and kind of move it, move it back over there. But it will tell you what everything is, and and this conceptually is very important. This is something I really hope everybody will do in the privacy of your own home. When your spouses and watching simply let the mouse hover over each and every in aperture. It's a thrilling experience, but what will happen is what happened to me is like I was like, Dang, I always wondered what that did. Well, now you know, because you just let will tell you it's brilliant. You just said So is anybody looking Browser made date overlays? Oh, boy, you know, I like to call it aperture porn. It's a it's It's an unusual way of exploring your interface, but it's fun. You can just hover to your heart's content and learn much about the program. So rather than trying to memorise during the short time we have together with all this stuff is, remember the concept I could just park over this little puppy. It will tell me what it is now. The case of split view it divulge is incredibly important. Additional information, it says split view. So split news as split view. Not that helpful, but like we had with Inspector. It shows you that shows and hides, Inspector, and it gives you the shortcut key. So that's kind of cool. So, you know, we've got an idea here. Now here's something that's kind of fun. This is the project's view. This is really slick. When you click this, everything goes away And now watch this. Be prepared to be amazed. In fact, call your friends into the room because this is really something. Okay, the sound effects in mind not provided by aperture We could go over here. How did it do? Do, do, do, do, do do do you can sort of, you know, skim through all of your pictures in a particular project. Now, how cool is that? So that's available in the projects. Few also, just so you know, you can change it around any way you want. It's pretty slick, and you can double click open a project. Everything works pretty much like you're used to. If you're a Mac person, if you're not a Mac person, my first question to you is. Why are you paying attention to an aperture class? Unsettling runs on Macs, but you know that's another story. Now what do you think would happen if I double click AARP articular image? Yep, exactly what you thought would happen. It fills the screen double click. It goes back. So this is the quickest way to get a good look at your photographs. Simply double click on them and double click, and they'll go away. By the way, if you ever wondered why it sucks to be a salmon, this photograph answers that question. Let's hit the Z key and zoom in a little bit tighter to help you understand even more. Um, that's pretty straightforward, so you can move around really quickly. You can also go over here to the library and simply click on your project's over here. Now. The next thing I want to cover because I really think this is cool, and this is one of the first areas that people start asking me questions. A lot of time is trying to understand the hierarchy of folders and projects and albums and aperture, and it took me about, you know, 15 days to figure it out way back in the day when they first shipped it. But once I did, I hit myself in the forehead, said Don't. Now I get it and I want to save you from having to hit yourself in the forehead. So here's how I use it. The first thing to know is you can create folders by simply going up here to the new, and they have all these choices folder and then you get this untitled folder and you can give it a name, etcetera. In this case, I'm gonna delete it cause I already made it and I created one called Travel, and I created one called Wildlife. So if you have a lot of photos in your library around certain topics or dates or projects, you could create a folder that represents genres that you find appealing. For instance, if you do wildlife and travel and weddings and sports, you could have four different folders that all of your projects lived in. So instead of having this big, long list of files down the left side of aperture, which is confusing, you would just have those four folders that everything lives in. Now It's important, understand These are logical, not physical. In other words, nothing is being created on your hard drive. No dis space is being used. It's just a logical representation so that you can see it the way you want. So in this case, I have the folder called Wildlife and you'll notice within the folder called Wildlife. I have two projects now. Projects are apertures native container, if you will for your images. So you go out and you shoot a wedding tomorrow and it's the Joans wedding and you imported as the Joans Wedding. It's going to create a project. That project will contain all the images from the Joans wedding. You might want to put that project in a larger folder called Weddings, where all of your weddings are. Is everybody following that? Now you'll see that I have this Maui Copters project here, and this is from last year when I taught at a workshop in Maui and it's travel related, so I'm going to drag it, and this is all you have to do. I'm just gonna drag it into the travel folder now. If I spend these up and close those, you'll see how nice and clean the interface is, All you see is the two folders. You see a folder for my travel shots. You see a folder for my wildlife shots. Aiken twirled is down and open it up. And now you can see the two projects within that folder, and the third level is albums. So on album is another logical, not physical representation of your images. Now you'll notice that in Wolves Miscellaneous the project this photo here and this photo here reside in this project. But if you look in the Wolf Water album, you'll see the same two photos. Now, if you've been following closely, you understand that those air, not additional copies of those two photos. These are simply logical representations of those two fold files that are in this other project. Does that make sense to everybody? Because if you don't get this now, it's gonna be very tough later to figure out the hierarchy. If you can figure out that folders contain projects, projects contain albums, and the only thing that's really going on as far Storen images is the project. Everything else is just sort of like helping you organize, and you can rename these by simply putting your cursor here and clicking and typing on them. You can create new ones. You can delete him. You can move him around there very flexibly. Have a lot of power here. It's extremely good way to organize your images. Aiken. Twirl that back up. And then now I could look at my travel folder, which we just dragged the dragged her drug. We just drug the Maui Copters, uh, project into travel Pretty straightforward. That makes sense. Everybody following me. Any questions in the chat room on the hierarchy of folders, projects and albums, Not too many questions here on the organ is okay, one in the front of a large number of photographs. As you do, um, why do you choose to organized by by genre as opposed to chronological, like a year and month folders? You know, I'm just a old man, and I do things in the way it makes sense in my old man brain. But I'm not advocating that you do it any particular way. I have multiple aperture libraries. I have dozens of them, so some of them the ones that are all done for commercial clients, where I have a commercial client who's either paying me in advance or has ordered the images etcetera. I'll actually have them set up by the client's name and date, but it just depends on what I'm working with for my personal work. I just kind of limited to basic genres. Some people do it by date. Some people do it by country. That's the beauty of this. You can do it any way you want, whatever makes sense to you. And one of the big concerns I hear from people when they're moving to a system like aperture or light room or any of them is they probably have something going on in their hardest. Now that helps them kind of organize their photos. And this is reasonably representative of almost anything you would have on your own hard to. So you can copy that structure and work within this just fine because you've probably got folders on your hard disk and inside folders might be nested folders. And so you just think of the folders here instead of nested folders that you just used the projects. Did that help us Chat room Ladies chat room guy Yeah, question with the chat room, Do you also use keywords Stand in your organization. Yes, and we'll get to that in just a minute. But hopefully we'll just a few minutes. And, Scott, have a quick question from M Larson in chant if you delete a folder. Also an album. Do Do you keep the pictures or picture is still there? Uh huh. Well, if you if you delete a folder and it has a project in it and you delete the project, you delete the pictures. But only if there's a project in it. Does that make sense? I think so. Okay. Rubin Eaves in the chat room would like to ask, Are you are the photos always and Onley on the hard drive? There is just a mere from them. And when are they exported? Or when they are exported, they exist. Okay. Sorry. Questions. A little confusing. Yeah. The photos do exist. If now, So far, all we've discussed is apertures managed libraries. You can also do what's called reference libraries and reference libraries. You've got the photos wherever you've got. Um, just exactly the way light room does it. In the case of reference libraries, you're responsible for remembering where your pictures are, and aperture keeps track of all of them. And if you somehow delete them from where they were or you lose that driver that Dr goes bad or you moving from this driver that driving you don't tell aperture, then you're gonna be kind of messed up trying to find them. But in terms of the library itself, you can have more than one library. You can have as many as you want. You can merge these libraries later. You can do anything you want along those lines. And wherever you keep your aperture libraries, they reside there. One copy of the photo resides there. The master copy that you made with your camera sort of think of it is a digital negative that resides there in perpetuity. Everything else we're talking about is a logical copy of it. That's, you know, 6 to 12 kilobytes of data until you hit the export button, because that's the way aperture work. So I think that's pretty smart question. It kind of shows that they understand the process. Aperture on. Lee makes a physical new copy of the photo. When you exported, you send it out as an email or you send it out as a print or you send it out as a book. Then they making a physical copy of it. But until then, its just logical. And what's cool about that is you could make wicked changes and undo them that you can't do in photo shop. I mean, I'll do something crazy. We're gonna jump ahead. And I swore wasn't gonna do this. But I can't help it because I want to. Crazy. I'm gonna go to the adjustments pain here, and I'm gonna hit the Seiki, which mysteriously stands for Crop. And that's gonna bring up the crop tool crop tool lets me do all kinds of cool things. I'm going to say I do not want to constrain the crop tool. And when I have years, I went on a helicopter tour with the doors off helicopter ride with the blue Hawaiian helicopter people in Maui. If you ever get a chance to do that, I highly recommend it. And so down below me was this guy windsurfing. And what you can't see in this photo is he's about nine miles offshore, and I began to get concerned for his ability to get back. If the wind doesn't go the right direction, but I guess he made it. But let's say I don't like the cropping here, and I want to go in and crop it so I could crop it differently like this by simply drawing a box. Okay, we hit the enter key. So now it's cropped. Now I'm about to blow your mind. I'm gonna go in here and change the exposure. And then once a file export blah, blah, blah a week. I don't like the crop. Well, too bad. But you crafted. Uh, excuse me, because it is a logical representation of the picture. I can simply unchecked crop. And there it is, cause, See, I didn't actually make any changes to the photo. I simply changed the edit display list. The little XML sidecar file to say, Do this, do this, do this. And none of that actually happens until we make the exported image. So if I had exported the photograph and that copy would have been cropped, but the master is always available for me to crop uncrossed, not Crump. And I'm only jumping ahead to this to help answer that person's question. Help him understand that There's Onley, one rial copy of the photograph. Unless I duplicate the master, which I'm not sure I know of any reason to do that. One of the things that's weird here is you don't save like you do in a photo shop. There's no say. Everyone asked me, Where's the save ass? Well, the save as I'll show you where it ISS file export. That's the save ass. You export the image if you want to save it out as something. But there's no, you know, you're not gonna find the words save here on the file menu, which is kind of weird, but it's because nothing's being permanently changed into the export. Yes, Canada. Yes, I have a question from J. Pinto in the chat. Is you mentioned that you have 12 15 however many libraries? Is there a reason to do that? And are the libraries better being small vs large? Does that make them slower or faster? Excellent question. Yes, The reason to do that is that the larger your library gets, the more prone to errors the database becomes, and once again, that Latin word hooky get Toki. It's little sideways on you. Um, I found that aperture three, finally with version 3.2 is stable enough that I don't worry about the larger libraries with aperture to at 10,000 images, the library's became very slow and bogged down and constantly needed to be re index. For me, that was my experience. I'm not saying as anybody else's, so I keep the smaller libraries. Partly because of that, it's better. It's a performance issue, and the other reason I keep them small is that a lot of the libraries we do have our for the commercial side of our business, and we just we just create a library per job. So I know that you know this client, there's a library for that clients job, and I never have to wonder where that job is located.