Full Screen
Aperture: End A Show Of A Selection Of Photos With A Blank Screen
2007-04-04
I often use full screen mode with no visible filmstrip to show photos to people, clicking through them one at a time with right-arrow. It's quick because I don't have to wait for previews to render (necessary to use the built-in slide show feature of Aperture), but there are some disadvantages to doing things this way. First, I have to show all the images in the album or project: I can't make a selection. Second, at the end of the photos there sits the last one on the screen: no blank screen.
To fix both of these problems, I use command-click. Here's how:
• Make sure the display is in Primary Only mode (option R). This makes the viewer show only one of the selected images at once.
• Select images using shift-clicking and command-clicking until the selection is as desired
• Go into full screen mode with F
• The first selected image will be displayed -- command-click it
• The next image is displayed. Keep command-clicking until all images have been displayed. On command-clicking the last one, a blank screen will appear.
[Added from the comments:]
Add an image of your logo (or URL or whatever) to the album or project. It doesn't matter where it is in the browser, as long as you click on it *last* to add it. Then click on the first image you want to show and hit F. Now the last image to be shown will be the logo.
Using the method of display above, images are shown in the order added to the selection, so you can not only choose what to show, but the order as well and very easily.
To fix both of these problems, I use command-click. Here's how:
• Make sure the display is in Primary Only mode (option R). This makes the viewer show only one of the selected images at once.
• Select images using shift-clicking and command-clicking until the selection is as desired
• Go into full screen mode with F
• The first selected image will be displayed -- command-click it
• The next image is displayed. Keep command-clicking until all images have been displayed. On command-clicking the last one, a blank screen will appear.
[Added from the comments:]
Add an image of your logo (or URL or whatever) to the album or project. It doesn't matter where it is in the browser, as long as you click on it *last* to add it. Then click on the first image you want to show and hit F. Now the last image to be shown will be the logo.
Using the method of display above, images are shown in the order added to the selection, so you can not only choose what to show, but the order as well and very easily.
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Aperture: How Do I Mark Images In Full Screen Mode?
2006-11-29
If keywords are sufficient for your need to mark images, then they can be added easily in full screen mode. The method I am about to describe works outside of full screen mode too. It is just not obvious that it does work in full screen mode because the controls are hidden.
Let's assume you want to mark the images for adjustment and so will use a keyword Action > Adjust to mark them. Make sure the viewer is visible (press V if it is not), bring up the Keyword Controls with shift D:
and select Edit Buttons...
Add the keyword Adjust in a convenient place
And add that keyword to one of the button sets. I am adding it to my Action button set:
Now click OK to close the dialog (maybe locking the keywords) and look at the Keyword Controls bottom right. Scroll through the sets with the period and comma keys until you get to the set with the Adjust keyword:
In this example it is attached to the 6 key. Option 6 adds it and shift option 6 removes it.
When you view your images full screen, make sure you have the correct button set displayed, and then as you navigate through the images press option 6 to mark for adjusting. If you have metadata display turned off you will see no change to the image. All selected images displayed in full screen will have the keyword added unless Primary Only (S key) is turned on. You can of course use multiple keywords set up for different keys and tag with any number of them.
It is possible to combine this technique with a smart album and negative filtering to make all marked images vanish from the current album as they are marked. This is handy when you are trying to reduce a set of images down to a predefined number.
Aperture: Quickly View Thumbnails In Detail
2006-08-16
With a screen full of thumbnails (hit V to make the viewer go away) for captioning or keywording, you can often find yourself wanting to view one or more images for a better look:
There is a very easy way to do this: hit F to go into full-screen mode:
If you have multiple images selected and are not in Primary Only mode, you'll see all of them displayed. To return to the thumbnails, just hit F again.
There is a very easy way to do this: hit F to go into full-screen mode:
If you have multiple images selected and are not in Primary Only mode, you'll see all of them displayed. To return to the thumbnails, just hit F again.
Aperture Full Screen
2006-07-31
The fastest way to see things big in Aperture is to go full screen. It's a lot quicker than trying to adjust all the various parts of the workspace to get the biggest viewer you can and then having to adjust it all back again once you are done looking. Just hit F and the screen will change to this layout:
Hit escape or F again to go back to where you were. This display needs some adjustment: there is wasted space at the bottom (taken by the filmstrip) and at the sides.
To improve things, first move the filmstrip to the left or right side by clicking on it and dragging:
The image scales to suit. Next reduce the size of the filmstrip. How? It is not obvious at all. You move the slider at the top (as shown above). As the thumbnails get smaller the filmstrip gets narrower. This is the opposite behavior to the thumbnail browser in that here the thumbnail size drives the window size. In the thumbnail browser the window size drives the thumbnail size. If you use a graphics tablet you will find that there are some odd visual interactions between the filmstrip and the pen position cause by the absolute coordinates coming from the tablet.
The filmstrip can also be longer or shorter. Click close to the ends and drag to stretch or compress it.
Next, change the way the filmstrip interacts with the big image. The way I have my display set up is so that the filmstrip fits into space not used by the large image. You can change this behavior in several ways:
The leftmost menu item selects the viewing mode. It has the five normal modes, plus the ability to control the filmstrip behavior. On makes it always visible if selected. Auto will make it appear if the mouse rolls over it. Avoid moves the large image out of the way of the filmstrip, but only if it is visible. So I normally set mine up as Auto, Don't Avoid. In that way the whole screen is available for the big image, but if I need the filmstrip I can mouse over and it will appear for me. The aspect ratio of my images and the screen is such that with a narrow filmstrip I lose almost nothing on the left edge, so Avoid is not helpful.
You can't use the projects pane (W) or display the adjustment pane (I). But that is not why you are here, so it does not matter. The adjustment HUD (H) is available, and so is the keywords HUD (shift H). All the normal display modes work too, so you can zoom (Z), open multiple images, etc. and it all works as expected.
I normally turn off metadata display, or have just the badges overlaying. Rating works as well; you just have to learn the key presses necessary to do what you want.
Navigation works the same way as in the normal display mode, but you cannot see where you are in the thumbnails. So I normally just use the left and right arrow keys to scroll back and forth. Another nice set of keys to use are J, K, and L. Mouse over to the film strip to make it visible and hit J to scroll one way and L to stroll the other. Hit those keys more than once to speed up the scrolling. K stops it dead. Home and End take you to the first and last respectively.
If you have stacks, then it is handy to know Option Page Up and Option Page Down. Those jump from stack to stack. If the stacks are open all the enclosed images will be shown in Multi mode or Stack mode. If the stacks are closed, they will be opened automatically (but not closed later). In Primary mode, only the pick will be shown. This means that you can either view every image (right arrow, right arrow, ...), or only stack picks, skipping all others (including images that are not in stacks) (option page down, option page down, ....).
With multiple images displayed and zoomed (Z) like this:
You can scroll them about using the space bar and click-dragging. If you modify that with Shift-Space, then clicking and dragging moves all the images around together. This is very useful for comparing many images in detail. The M key will show the master images at any time.
One thing to watch out for, or at least know about, is another way to "lose" images. If you have one image displayed on the screen in full screen mode and command-click the image the screen will go black. What happened?! All that you did was to deselect the current and only image. To get something back, hit Home and your first image in the filmstrip will appear.
If your cursor wanders to the top of the screen you will see the command bar appear as an overlay. It is normally auto-hiding, but you can change this with the third-from-left icon:
I usually just keep it out of the way. The loupe and all the adjustment tools are available too. And they have keyboard shortcuts, such as Control-S for sharpening, and Command O for Lift.
Hit escape or F again to go back to where you were. This display needs some adjustment: there is wasted space at the bottom (taken by the filmstrip) and at the sides.
To improve things, first move the filmstrip to the left or right side by clicking on it and dragging:
The image scales to suit. Next reduce the size of the filmstrip. How? It is not obvious at all. You move the slider at the top (as shown above). As the thumbnails get smaller the filmstrip gets narrower. This is the opposite behavior to the thumbnail browser in that here the thumbnail size drives the window size. In the thumbnail browser the window size drives the thumbnail size. If you use a graphics tablet you will find that there are some odd visual interactions between the filmstrip and the pen position cause by the absolute coordinates coming from the tablet.
The filmstrip can also be longer or shorter. Click close to the ends and drag to stretch or compress it.
Next, change the way the filmstrip interacts with the big image. The way I have my display set up is so that the filmstrip fits into space not used by the large image. You can change this behavior in several ways:
The leftmost menu item selects the viewing mode. It has the five normal modes, plus the ability to control the filmstrip behavior. On makes it always visible if selected. Auto will make it appear if the mouse rolls over it. Avoid moves the large image out of the way of the filmstrip, but only if it is visible. So I normally set mine up as Auto, Don't Avoid. In that way the whole screen is available for the big image, but if I need the filmstrip I can mouse over and it will appear for me. The aspect ratio of my images and the screen is such that with a narrow filmstrip I lose almost nothing on the left edge, so Avoid is not helpful.
You can't use the projects pane (W) or display the adjustment pane (I). But that is not why you are here, so it does not matter. The adjustment HUD (H) is available, and so is the keywords HUD (shift H). All the normal display modes work too, so you can zoom (Z), open multiple images, etc. and it all works as expected.
I normally turn off metadata display, or have just the badges overlaying. Rating works as well; you just have to learn the key presses necessary to do what you want.
Navigation works the same way as in the normal display mode, but you cannot see where you are in the thumbnails. So I normally just use the left and right arrow keys to scroll back and forth. Another nice set of keys to use are J, K, and L. Mouse over to the film strip to make it visible and hit J to scroll one way and L to stroll the other. Hit those keys more than once to speed up the scrolling. K stops it dead. Home and End take you to the first and last respectively.
If you have stacks, then it is handy to know Option Page Up and Option Page Down. Those jump from stack to stack. If the stacks are open all the enclosed images will be shown in Multi mode or Stack mode. If the stacks are closed, they will be opened automatically (but not closed later). In Primary mode, only the pick will be shown. This means that you can either view every image (right arrow, right arrow, ...), or only stack picks, skipping all others (including images that are not in stacks) (option page down, option page down, ....).
With multiple images displayed and zoomed (Z) like this:
You can scroll them about using the space bar and click-dragging. If you modify that with Shift-Space, then clicking and dragging moves all the images around together. This is very useful for comparing many images in detail. The M key will show the master images at any time.
One thing to watch out for, or at least know about, is another way to "lose" images. If you have one image displayed on the screen in full screen mode and command-click the image the screen will go black. What happened?! All that you did was to deselect the current and only image. To get something back, hit Home and your first image in the filmstrip will appear.
If your cursor wanders to the top of the screen you will see the command bar appear as an overlay. It is normally auto-hiding, but you can change this with the third-from-left icon:
I usually just keep it out of the way. The loupe and all the adjustment tools are available too. And they have keyboard shortcuts, such as Control-S for sharpening, and Command O for Lift.
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