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?

You are missing the F key. Pressing F will display the selected thumbnail (one or many) full screen. There images can be adjusted via the HUD.

There is a second way that involves less clicking if you have a number of images to view and/or edit. The grid browser includes this icon when working on a book or light table:

Click it to select and it will replace the book or light table viewer with the standard image viewer. Work on your images and click it again to get the book or light table back.

The lock icon to the right will lock the viewer to this browser. This is useful if you have multiple browsers open and want to look through them while keeping the book or light table on the screen.

This Full Screen article shows how useful the full screen mode is. This Laying Out A Book article has an example of creating a new image version and editing it while in book view. And Working With Multiple Browsers shows all the ways that multiple browsers can be usefully employed.

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