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When working with any application whether it is Photoshop, Final Cut Pro or Aperture learning the keyboard shortcuts is essential for working faster — fewer mouse moves equal fewer seconds which equal fewer minutes, hours and days of lost time at the end of the year. Here are a few of Aperture's shortcuts I have found useful (for those of you experienced with Final Cut Pro this will be an easier transition into Aperture since many of the keyboard commands & terminology are identical):
APERTURE INTERFACE
Apertures Preferences — Command , (Command & the comma key)
View Options — Command J
Projects Panel toggle open or close — W
Full Screen mode — F
Undo — Command Z
` for the Loupe
Command ~ (command tilde) for the Centered Loupe
Adjustments HUD — H
Adjustments HUD (Heads-Up Display), toggle H to show or hide HUD. The HUD windows work for a lot of the adjustments like the Spot & Patch, Exposure, Levels, White Balance, Metadata etc. Using HUDs & working in Full Screen mode seems to be the way to work with Aperture
Query HUD — Command F
Finds images according to metadata, keywords, rating, etc. The default behaviour to find an image is meet "any" of it's criteria. The Query HUD behaves pretty much like the Finder's Find option (Command F). (Be aware there is a misprint in the manual regard this, it says Option-F instead of Command-F. Reference "Getting Started with Aperture," ©2006, page 68, second paragraph.)
Keywords HUD — Shift H
The next set of hot keys J K L — up, stop, down respectively — Coolest feature I've seen in an application in a long time. What this does is slows down or speeds up the scrolling & stops the scrolling when you are viewing your images, it's simple & makes working with this application real slick. Those of you not familiar with Apple applications like Final Cut Pro might need a little instruction in using these keys. Say you want to scroll down a large number of images you would press the L key, too slow? No problem. Subsequent depressions of the L key makes the scrolling speed up, depress it 5 times & you're really flying!
Scroll up — J
Stop scrolling — K
Scroll down — L
To delete a Project in the Project Panel — Control Click & select Delete
Command Delete (Select the image & Command Del)
The entire contents of the Project including all Master Images & Version Images along with every edit, albums... that's right everything associated with the Project will be gone from the Library & Vault and placed in the Finder's Trash. There is no undo — Command - Z — for this, but you could remove them from the Finder Trash. Choosing this option is something I would not do unless the original images were first backed up onto a DVD, CD...
To delete a Version (Image) from the Browser (This will place the Version into the Finder Trash and will permanently delete any edits since you opened the Aperture editing session. There is no undo Command - Z for this)
Basic Project Layout — Command Option S
Maximize Browser Projects Layout — Command Option B
Maximize Viewer Layout — Command Option V
Adjustments Inspector — I
Make new Albums of your selected images — Command L
Open multiple Projects — Command click
Select Projects in the Projects Panel & displays them in the Browser in Thumbnail or List views
Creates a new folder in the Projects Panel — Shift Command N
Metadata overlay on & off in the Viewer — Y
STACKS
Stacks — Command K
UnStacks — Shift Command K
Clinking the upper left icon of the first image (your best pick of the stack of images) will close the Stack with only the top pick visible, click it again & the Stack expands
Command - click on an image in Stack mode will reduce the number of images you are comparing in the Viewer regardless of whether you Command - click the image in the Browser or Viewer
To swap between the top pick with the current top pick of the Stack — Command [ or ]
To Print the images in a Stack make sure that the Stack is expanded to print all of its images otherwise to print just the top pick close the Stack
TOOLBAR
Creating:
Show Import Panel — Shift I
New Project — Command N
Create a new Album — Command Option L
Duplicate Version — Option V
New Version from Master — Option G
Editing:
Selection tool (Arrow tool) — A
` — Loupe, toggle ` (tilde) to show or hide the Loupe, the Loupe works on any image in Aperture at 100 percent resolution
Command + — Loupe to increases its viewing size
Command Shift + or - (plus or minus) — Increases the view of the Loupe to 100%, 200%, 400% & 800% magnification
Rotate clockwise — R click
Rotate counter-clockwise — Option R click
Straightening tool — G which also can rotate the image, a grid pops up to help in alignment
Crop — C
X — Marks the Spot & Patch
E — Red Eye tool
O — Lift tool (opens the Lift & Stamp HUD)
Shift O — Stamp tool
CONTROL BAR
Viewer Modes (Main Viewer):
To hide or reveal the Control Bar — Shift D
Zoom in & out images in the Viewer — Z
Show Master Image — M
Full Screen mode — F
Primary only — S
[ — Rotate left
Option [ — Rotate left compare
] — Rotate right
Option ] — Rotate right compare
Comparing Images in the Viewer
Viewer Modes (Main Viewer):
Option U — View Multiple images in the Viewer up to 10 images may be viewed in the Viewer
Option R — View one Primary image from the Browser in the Viewer
Option H — Three Up select one image in the Browser & see the ones beside it 3 total in Viewer. Continuous clicking in the gray part of the Viewer circulates the images, for example, click the upper part of the gray inside the Viewer & the images circulate top—down & clicking on the lower portion of the Viewer the images circulate down—top
In Three Up mode you can also use the up, down & right, left arrow keys to select the next 3 images from a Browser row or column
Option O — Compares your best pick with other images. Your selected best pick is identifiable by its yellow framed border. Should you want to make a new best pick just hit the Return key
Option T — Stack is the same as Compare mode except it only works with the images contained in a Stack
Command \ — Selects a new best top Stack image as the main pick
RATING IMAGES
COMMAND - OPTION - R — Layout rating & Keywords:
0 — (Zero) Image is rated as a reject
Control 0 — Reject & move to see the next image
Option 0 — Reject & compare
Shift 0 — Reject & clear the last image
Control Shift 0 — Reject, clear the last image & move on to the next image
- — (Minus) Decrease the rating
Control - — Decrease the rating & move to see the next image
Option - — Decrease the rating & compare
Shift - — Decrease the rating & clear the last image
Control Shift - — Decrease the rating clear the last image & move on to the next image
= - Increase the rating. You can also use the + to increase the rating
Control = — Increase the rating & move to see the next image
Option = — Increase the rating & compare
Shift = — Increase the rating & clear the last image
Control Shift = — Increase the rating clear the last image & move on to the next image
\ Select
Control \ — Select & move to see the next image
Option \ — Select & compare
Shift \ — Select & clear the last image
Control Shift \ — Select, clear the last image & move on to the next image
— victor maldonado