How to rganize projects in albums

I have a number of projects under Library Albums, one project per day, like events in iphoto. So when trying to organize, creating an album per month, then putting all the projects in a month in to this alum it is not possible - I must be very stupid, how do I do this?
Or should I read aperture = "feel stupid" that is how I read it today
/k

One method is to use Folders. Folders in Aperture contain Projects and Albums (and other Folders), but do not contain images. So create Folders for each month, and drag the Projects for each of that month's days into the appropriate Folder. Then if you want, you can create albums as subsets of each days shots. So your structure could be:
Folder (Month)
..... Project (Day)
..... ..... Album (Subject)
At least, that's how I understand it.

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Why someone thought this should be moved is beyond me... and I am hoping there is a way for me to bring it back to the top.
In some of my Aperture libraries I have literally hundreds of projects and rely on smart albums to quickly organize photos across them. Having to scroll to the bottom of the pane is a pain!
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Create a folder (new Folder), call it "My albums" or similar, and drag it to the top of your projects section in the Library Inspector panel.
Then drag all your albums there.
You will have to set the projects to be arranged manually, or let the name of this folder start with a character that bring it to the top, if you want to sort by name.
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Working with projects and albums in the browser

I have already posted a question about how to find a project or album. If you have TONS of projects and albums how do you find a specific one in the browser? I cannot see any way to sort other than alphabetically and there is no way to search project or album names.
By the same token, and this is my new question, how do you easily display in the viewer all the files in a project? (a project may contain albums with images that are not stored on the root level of that project, so highlighting the project in the browser does not display them). Or similarly, how do you display in the viwer the images contained in several albums? There eseems to be no way to simultaneaously selct albums or projects. You can have several tabs open but not see the images together in the viewer. In fact to make a slide show off all the images in one project you have to create an album and manually put in all the images.
Similarly, there is no way of making a smart album of all the images in a project or determined albums, which would have been a work around for all these issues.....
Am I missing something really obvious????????? It all seems so basic. Even iphoto lets you do these things! HELP, APPLE!!!!!!!!
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Hola Francisco,
Aperture is a much more powerful software than iPhoto and it's crucial to understand the way its library works to get the most of its organization capabilities.
Master images can only be placed (physically) inside projects. These are then image containers. An album only has links to images, and this links can go to any project. So even if an album is inside a project it could be displaying images that are not inside that project but somewhere else (if you drag and drop from other project previously).
On the project panel, projects are display in alphabetical order, but you can also use blue folders to organize projects. My project panel is organized as follows:
Project '1. Imports': A project created to automatically recieve all the photos when a card is inserted in my card reader. I use a hot folder with automator for this.
Blue folder '2. Smart Albums': This blue folder has all the smart albums I need to quickly find any image in the library.
Blue folder '3. Work': This folder has all the projects related to my work.
Blue folder '4. Travel': Contains projects of my travel photography divided by country.
Blue folder '5. Portrait': Contains projects of portrait sessions.
Blue folder '6. Social & Events': Contains projects of differents events I shoot.
Project '7. Templates': Contains photoshop templates to create 9 in 1 frames, etcetera.
As you can see I use numbers in front of every name to keep them in the order I want. Then the metadata does the rest, I add keywords to easily find ANY image in seconds, doesn't matter how long I did it.
A Smart album will search inside the whole Library if you create it at 'All images' level, then you can drag it to a folder to organize them if you want.
I'd recommend the book by Ben Long and Orlando Luna, it made me squeeze all the potential of Aperture, way beyond the manual that came with the program.

Storing in projects vs. albums

Hey!
I've been doing an internship for 7 months now and I've been taking pictures like crazy, I'm up to 4200 and counting.
Currently I'm storing all photos in a project called internship and each event (like roadtrips) are in separate albums.
Recently I noticed that aperture is getting kinda slow so I started thinking, could this be because of all 4200 photos being in the same project?
How are you supposed to organize your photos?
You can either do what I do today or you could switch places of projects and albums (so you have one album in the root and many projects), you could also use folders. Which way is preferred?
Thanks
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Good advice above.
Ansman wrote:
Currently I'm storing all photos in a project called internship and each event (like roadtrips) are in separate albums.
Instead, let each road trip or perhaps one day's shoot, or morning shoot be an individual Project, aiming for that goal of (a) logical time-based organization and (b) no more than ~500 pix per project I have not personally tried to quantify the impact of Project size on performance.
"Internship" can be a folder with all the relevant projects in it.
Note that an Album is just a collection of pointers to Versions, so Albums can be created and discarded at will, changing nothing and taking up negligible space. Very powerful tool. Albums are often created by searching on Key Words, another very powerful organizing tool in the database of image files.
Recently I noticed that aperture is getting kinda slow...
Aperture is a very demanding application that can slow down for lots of reasons. Hard drives and RAM are the two main reasons that a workflow slows - and they interrelate. Setup changes, workflow changes and/or version changes can also be causative.
HARD DRIVES
Hard drives slow as they fill so keep drives underfilled. No more than ~70% full is a good maximum guideline, but less full is faster. A hard drive 80% full performs more slowly than a 50% full hard drive. Even a hard drive used solely for backup should be not allowed to exceed ~85% full for stability reasons.
The Aperture Library should be on a fast underfilled internal drive. Reference Masters to external drives as needed to keep internal hard drives underfilled. Use Firewire 800 (thunderbolt on 2011 Macs) rather than USB for external drives when possible.
Back up originals on external drives prior to import into Aperture or any other images app. I cannot overstate how important that is, and various manuals, texts, etc. present workflows that skip that critical step. Also back up the Aperture Library using Aperture's Vaults, which are designed for that purpose.
RAM
Your workflow may be running out of RAM and therefore "paging out" to disk. Page outs slow operation a lot and can lead to instability.
You can evaluate whether or not you have adequate RAM by looking at the Page Outs number under System Memory on the Activity Monitor app before starting a work session; recheck after working and if the page outs number (manual calculation of ending page outs number minus starting page outs number) increased significantly during operation your workflow is RAM-starved. Ignore the pie charts and other info in Activity Monitor.
If page outs increase significantly during operation you can add RAM or simply try to run Aperture by itself. Switching from 64-bit operation to 32-bit operation will also make some additional RAM space available.
On my 2006 MBP with its max of 3 GB RAM I always did a restart prior to a heavy Aperture session to clear any memory leaks and make sure no other apps were open. Browsers in particular will often suck RAM Aperture would otherwise be using.
The problem with running a RAM-deficient workflow like I did is that along with slower operation, page outs can reduce overall stability - - and instability always seems to present at the worst times, like in the midst of processing a time-critical project. It does help a lot to keep a really really clean workflow.
If your test of page outs does show that you are paging to disk the speed of your drives and drives connectivity become even more important than normal. The use of solid state drives (SSDs) frequently reduces the impact of inadequate RAM.
OS 10.7 does seem to utilize more RAM than OS 10.6 does, and that makes sense because over time evolving OSs and evolving apps take advantage of evolving hardware.
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Projects and Albums: quick question...

So, I have some "projects" that I want to delete. But first, I want to move the images to another "album" or whatever.
So, I drag all of images from one project to another album.
But then, when I click delete on the actual project, I get a dialog box telling me that the master images are going to be deleted. Sure enough... the images are gone. Not catastrophic, I got them back in.
But I am trying to figure out how to do this. Must be missing some simple function.
How do you move images OUT of a project, and then delete that project without losing the images that you've moved out? What am I missing?
rick
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How do you move images OUT of a project, and then
delete that project without losing the images that
you've moved out? What am I missing?
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Another option (if your albums are all inside projects) is to export the project the albums are in and then re-import - when you export a project that has albums with pictures from other projects, all of the files (master files and versions from stacks) that you had put in that album will be copied into the exported project and thus return when you re-import that project.
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It is probably safer though just to move the files into a new project so you don't miss anything! I wanted to give you another option though in case that was too annoying.

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Pleas help me!
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Welcome to the Support Communities!
The link below to the iPhoto for iOS manual covers many of these topics.
iPhoto Help: Ways to share photos
http://help.apple.com/iphoto/iphone/2.0/#blnk7d8f763e
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Print photos from your device to a printer that supports AirPrint. Tap > Print and select a printer.
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