Bagelturf Q and A

How Do I Add Watermarks To All The Images On A Contact Sheet?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-06-15T17:13:20-07:00

Thanks so much for publishing your site. I am an amateur photographer trying to grow out of my amateur title a little bit and find your articles amazingly helpful. I am trying to print some contact sheets for some free work I did (to boost my portfolio of course). I have no problem using Apertures contact sheet printing but I am trying to figure out if there is any way to have Aperture include my watermark on every single image. The only thing I've come up with on my own is to export every image with the watermark setting and then import them and then use the contact sheet print setting. That seems like an awful lot of work. Do you know of a better way? Thanks in advance for any help you are able to provide.

How Do I Change The Color Of The Boxes In A Book?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-05-17T18:58:27-07:00

Great site of Aperture how-to's and tips. A question for you. In a book, special occasion template, how does one change the color of all those colored boxes? What are those boxes, If I drag one from one page to another the color seems to vanish, though the selection handles are still there.

bagelturf@mac.com — 2008-02-12T18:47:15-08:00

Can I Store Previews Outside The Library?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2006-10-10T16:29:03-07:00

[Regarding previews] Do you know where they are located and can this be customized? I would love to have my library in the external FW drive and have the previews in my local drive, so when I travel, I can always have a small size replica of all my images.

Why Can't I Filter On Words In The Keyword Hierarchy?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2006-10-18T04:53:37-07:00

OK, I seem to remember from documentation and also from some of the "preview" movies of aperture 1.0, that if you had keywords arranged hierarchically, that if you applied "surf," which is located as "Nature>Water>Ocean>Surf," that basically, each of the parent words would also be associated with that picture, meaning you would not have to manually add EACH parent item to the picture....

but I can't seem to get this to behave that way in Aperture 1.5. Has something changed? am I slightly retarded? Is it possible to bring up this picture with "surf" by searching for all pictures that contain "Water?"

How Do I Create A Filter That Excludes Keywords?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2006-10-18T09:13:32-07:00

First of all, you have a great website! It really has helped me get more out of Aperture! Question for you – is there a way to create a filter that EXCLUDES images with a certain keyword. Example, on import, I marked everything with “Wedding,” but I tag the ones that need some PS work also with “Retouch.” I would like to have a way to do a filter (or smart album/web gallery) that excludes that keyword.

How Do I Delete Referenced Masters?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2006-10-29T06:42:17-08:00

Hi, my whole Aperture Library is based on referenced files. I already had a document structure in my Pictures folder before I started using Aperture. Now I dragged these folders right onto my Library icon inside Aperture (as you suggest in one of your tips). However there's one thing I really, really miss: How can I completely delete pictures? When I do photoshotings I use to filter my photos, look for the best results and then delete the bad ones. Appearently this doesn't work. I get a notification and then the file is deleted from my Aperture Library. However it's still on my harddrive. Is there a way to delete a picture in both the Aperture Library _and_ on my harddisk?

How Do I Access A Vault On A Network Drive Via Samba?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2006-11-07T16:25:27-08:00

First off, your site is quite an excellent resource. Well done and keep up the good work! I have one question, which I'm hoping you know the answer to. I'm trying to move my Vault over to a network drive, but Samba doesn't seem to be able to handle the : characters inside the .appproject packages. Did you ever encounter this problem? If so, how did you get around it? If not, have you any ideas how I would get around this?

How Do I Delete Rejects?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2006-11-16T16:42:49-08:00

I’ve very much enjoyed reading our articles about Aperture. You obviously know you’re way around the program. Have you come up with a system to quickly delete rejects? The Aperture manual doesn’t even talk about deleting rejects. The method I’m using I find painfully slow. Presently I select an image, hit the #9 key and mark it as a reject. I then select view all rejects. I highlight all of them and then go to File>Delete Master and all Versions. It then deletes the last image I selected, not all the ones highlighted. I have to follow up and delete each image individually. I want to love this program but It’s difficult due to how hard it is to get rid of bad images easily. It’s obvious Apple doesn’t want this to happen since they don’t even have anything about deleting rejects in the PDF manual which I searched. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated and maybe this is a good idea for an article. Thanks in advance.

Is It Possible To Filter By Adjustment?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2006-11-19T08:49:00-08:00

Is there a way to set up a Smart Album for photos that have not be edited or adjusted? I looked for a parameter to do that, but can't find it. I know edited photos get marked and I could manually keyword the unmarked ones, but I wanted to see if you found a more automatic way of collecting together unedited photos in Aperture.

How Do I Manage A Whole Stack Of Images For Many Purposes?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2006-11-23T09:42:58-08:00

I'm very new to Aperture, and am still struggling with stacks, though. My problem is that I'd like to put multiple versions of a single photo in a stack, cropped for different print sizes (with keywords of "5x7", "8x10", &c). But I also want to use stacks for selecting the best shot of several similar ones. My problem comes when I want to do both: Stack several shots together, but have multiple versions of the "pick." How do you do this without getting very confused? [Updated with more information about filtering albums]

How Do I Mark Images In Full Screen Mode?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2006-11-28T19:58:21-08:00

Maybe a stupid/simple question: So I am viewing a project in fullscreen, and I want to flag certain interesting photos so I can look at them later for editing or export. How do I do this?

How Do I Reset The Numbering Of Images Imported Into A New Project?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2006-12-02T21:00:46-08:00

My case: I am a theater photographer. I take hundreds of photo from each performance in many different CF disks. For each show, I make one project in Aperture. I assign a name for each project and when I import the photos I give a custom name for my Master files with counter. for the first project, everything is all right. I get counters started with 1 and goes on. But the problem starts when I want to import photos for the second Project. here I want my master files have a new custom name with new counters. I get the new custom name but the counter does not start from 1. It starts with the next figure that last project's photo. Please advise. How can I have different projects with different counters. Have this in mind that each of my projects have more that 1000 picture in it.

Can I Set Up A Folder Naming Preset That Includes The Whole Folder Hierarchy?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2006-12-08T08:30:58-08:00

I´ve got a question when saving Images. I can relocated masters, and when I´m doing it I can create naming presets. Like folder/Project and so on. So here´s my question: Aperture only takes the foldername of the first folder in the hierarchy. Subfolder doens´t appears. When my pics are in (Bluefolder)Party/(Bluefolder)X-mas/(Project)2005 Aperture could only saves it this way (Folder)Party/(Folder)2005. Did I something wrong?

Can I IPTC Tag And Sort Like I Can In iView ?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2006-12-20T18:40:58-08:00

Hi! Thanks for a great site! I'm thinking about switching from iView Media Pro to Aperture. What I'm curios about is if Aperture has the same abilities to tag photos with all the IPTC data that iView has? And also, is there any good ways to sort photos by people or location. Do I have to use keywords to do that, or is there any dedicated fields for this? I'd like to see a full walk through of all the searching/filtering/tagging capabilities Aperture have, could you point me in the right direction for a great source on that?

How Do I Remove Built-in Smart Albums?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2006-12-28T07:09:33-08:00

Of course I like your website.. :) Great articles that help a lot. So I had a question of my own, to which I hope you have an answer; Is it possible to remove any of those 'smart' albums under 'Library'?

How Do I View and Edit A Large Version of a Book or Light Table Image?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2006-12-31T08:38:30-08:00

Love your site and have enjoyed learning Aperture. My problem occurs while I am working in a book or light table. When I click on an image that is small in my browser I cannot for the life of me find a way to look at that image alone in a viewer so I can edit it. I can open it in photoshop, but not separately in Aperture. In any other kind of folder clicking on a image shows it larger in the viewer. But in the book or Light table layouts all you see is the book or light table. It is frustrating to need to do a quick edit, but not be able to quickly see the image larger on the screen. In I photo I was able to double click on the image, see it large, edit it and go back into the book. In Aperture I have to search for the image in a different browser to see it large enough to edit it. What am I missing? Suggestions?

How Do I Delete A Version Without Deleting The Master?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-02-10T09:24:08-08:00

Congrats on your blog! There definitely is a lack of consciousness on Apple's side with regard to the ease of use of manuals which should - in our opinion - reflect the ease of use of their hard- and software (which is not the case). Thanks for every effort to change that! I spent a lot of time trying to understand the project/album/folder business. It may become a little easier with your help. The next thing (which I suppose is linked with the above subject) I will have to get my teeth in is "How do I delete a version and keep the master"? Until now I have not found a way to delete just this one file and be sure I have not done harm to something else.

How Do I Apply Keywords To All Of The Images In A Stack?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-02-19T16:29:25-08:00

Sorry to bother you again with a quick question. I've imported all my old images, and groped the similar shots into stacks, and closed the stacks to reduce the number of images shown. Now I'm going through and applying keywords, but the keywords I select are only being applied to the pick of the stack, not the whole stack. Any idea how to apply the keyword to the whole stack? I've tried the "primary only" toggle and that doesn't seem to be it.

Is There Any Way To Stop Aperture Importing The Same Image More Than Once?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-02-25T08:20:33-08:00

I have found your Aperture articles to be very useful, thanks for taking the time to post them. Quick question for you about your advanced importing article. When you did the following: 'In this case I have elected to copy the master files into a folder called Dogs' Is there any way to tell Aperture to ignore duplicate images and only import/copy the new ones to the 'Dogs' folder? This was a handy feature that Canon's CameraWindow provided and I got into the habit of using it (I don't always delete all the images from my photo card after an import).

How Do I Manage Adjusting, Rating, and Keywording In The Field With A Small Hard Drive?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-05-27T02:20:05-07:00

I am a photographer and travel to various "Locations." I am having a workflow problem with Aperture and image storage. It seems to me that there is probably an easy fix either in Aperture or in modifying my workflow but the Apple discussion group is unable to grasp my problem. One kind responder pointed me to your site and so perhaps you would allow me to ask my question. While traveling I download from the camera to my laptop MacBook Pro each day. Dependent upon opportunities I sometimes need to download from the SD cards directly to a Wolverine battery operated hard drive while continuing to shoot. I then copy from the Wolverine to my MB Pro at the end of the day. I use Aperture to rate, cull, add keywords, put into projects etc etc. As the laptop's hard drive is too small to store all of my images i usually need to make additional DVD backups of my images and erase the files from my laptop. This is where the problem starts.

After I erase the master files the images and ratings etc still appear in Aperture but of course the images show as off line. Upon returning home I copy all of my images onto my eSATA hard drives (from DVD or from Wolverine). Now I want to have Aperture look for the master images on the eSATA drive and re connect, but cannot figure out how to do this. The only solution I have so far is to re do the rating, culling, keywords etc referencing the images on the eSATA drive and erase the older versions. This besides being time consuming is for me fraught with peril. My administrative skills are almost non existent.

How Do I Display The Number Of Images In Each Project?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-07-01T20:41:54-07:00

First off I want to thank you for your website it has been very very helpful to me, since I am a beginner to using Aperture and I was getting fed up with the master files and organizing, but know I understand all of that completely. My only question is that in your screenshots for your library section for Aperture, next to all of your projects it shows how many pictures are in every one. I was wondering how did you do that?

How Do I Fix Thumbnails That Bring Up The Wrong Image?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-07-25T14:41:11-07:00

I am very frustrated when I go into aperture and look at my pictures I look at the previews on the bottom and there are a lot of preview photos are the wrong photo. When I click on the photo a different photo comes into the view screeen. What can I do to fix this I tried holding option and command while I started aperture and it said it was regenerating. Afterwards still the same result. Any other suggestions? Also when I click on library now nothing displays in the view window? THanks

How Do I Filter By 1/30s Shutter Speed?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-08-02T16:28:11-07:00

I think I just found a bug in Aperture and I'm wondering if you've come across it or have a workaround/solution. I'm trying to do a search by shutter speed. The speed I'm trying to isolate is 1/30 sec. The thing is, I try to use Aperture's EXIF search by creating a smart album and then using the "Smart Settings" of "Shutter Speed - is - 1/30" Ah -- so here we are at the bug: This field doesn't seem to offer support for fractions. Entering 1/30 will give me photos with a shutter speed of 1 sec. Any suggestions?

How Do I Combine The Contents Of Folders That Contain Files With The Same Filenames?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-09-23T17:12:37-07:00

Hello, I'd like to combine the contents of a few folders; however, some file names are the same, therefore, I can't add them all together. Is there a way to "automatically" rename the files so that they can all share the same folder space? I don't want to go inside each folder and change the name of files one by one!

How Do I Add Metadata To A Book That Is Not Offered In The Pulldown Menu?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-10-01T11:27:42-07:00

I have a website where I post my photos and with every photo a "saying". When I manage my photos in Aperture I add the "Saying title" in the metadate "Byline Title" field and the saying in the metadata "Byline" field. So far so good. Now I want to make a book but when I add a "Metadata Box" I´m not able to pick the Byline Title or Byline in the "Set Metadata Format" option. Can this easily be fixed or what?

How Do I Consolidate The Images I Have Shared With iPhoto Without Creating A Problem For iPhoto?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-10-03T19:03:42-07:00

I am in the process of moving most of my work with photos to Aperture from iPhoto. I have been working with referenced files in Aperture with the master files staying in iPhoto. How can I move the master files to Aperture without de-stabilizing iPhoto?

Having Found One Image With A Filter, How Do I Find Others In The Same Project?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-10-08T19:18:20-07:00

I quite often do searches for pics by keywords etc.. but when I do find an image through the search I would like then to look at the other images from that project, so how do I find out what the project is and where it is in the Aperture Projects view, I could do with something similar to the 'Show in Finder' feature... am I missing something obvious somewhere?

What Are The Pros And Cons Of Managed vs. Referenced Masters?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-11-19T10:40:36-08:00

I have learned a ton from your site, thanks for providing it!! My question is this: I didn't know what I was doing when I originally imported my pictures into Aperture. Now I have a mix of some images managed and many are referenced. Do you have a pros/cons list of managed vs referenced? I have looked but haven't found a conclusive list. Thanks again for all your help!!

How Big Should My Library Be?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-12-06T15:38:23-08:00

First, quickly, I love your site, and thank you for the useful information you have on it. Quick question: I have an aperture library with referenced masters. My library is approx. 13000 images, totaling approx 25GB. I do not automatically create previews for the images, in fact I periodically select all images and choose to delete previews. I only have previews for about 200 images that I sync to my iPhone. I use keywords, but not overwhelmingly; I do have Blue and Gray folder organizational structure within Aperture. I have very few smart albums/lightables/etc. Mostly I have 7-8 Blue (top level folders) with each shoot being a separate project under one of the Blue folders. So the question is, why is my ApertureLibrary.aplibrary file over 7GB in size? Thank you in advance for your help.

How Do I Set Metadata Views Back To Defaults?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-12-11T08:06:45-08:00

Do you know how to reset all the metadata views back to their default designs?

How Do I Restore A Single Image From A Vault?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2007-12-13T19:18:28-08:00

Message: Great blog-- thanks!! I seem to have "misplaced" a master image. Not quite sure what happened. I opened it (twice) with an external editor and attempted to delete one version (using the 'Delete Version' option). I did not choose 'Delete Master and all Versions' option and Aperture never asked me to confirm this action. However, all traces of the photo now appear to be gone from the library. I drilled through using the 'Show page contents' tool and looked at previews. There is no folder in the project for this image. I have recently backed up my Vaults before editing. Is there any way I can recover a single master image from a vault? Thanks in advance for any suggestions!!

Why Is There No Built-in Smart Album For 2008?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2008-01-02T17:18:40-08:00

It's 2008 and I have imported Jan 1 photos but there is no 2008 blue folder under library like my previous years. These are not regular blue folders rather a double rectangle in blue with an asterisk in the bottem right corner. How is this created? Thanks. Great site!

How Should I Move My Vault To Another Drive?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2008-01-08T14:45:56-08:00

I have a question about moving/relocating vaults. I looked around your site, but haven't been able to find anything. I ran out of space on my external, where I store my vault just before xmas. So yesterday I bought a new external. It's only storing items I've put in my library since my last update on the old vault. I want to know how can I create a fresh new vault and store EVERYTHING in it on my new external? Do I need to remove my old vault from aperture? I appreciate any help.

My Projects Have Disappeared -- Is My Library Corrupt?

bagelturf@mac.com — 2008-02-11T18:33:13-08:00

As you can see the blue september folder has photos in it directly, there used to be several projects in the september folder, now just the folders are there with no projects. Also you can see that April, May, June also have no disclosure triangles next to them indicating they have lost their projects as well. Other months may be missing some projects as well. Also note the project caelyn books near the bottom, this had books in it but is now empty. Ever see anything like this?