Basic Aperture confusion of old PCer

I'm new to the Mac world after decades with PCs. Aperture looks great, but I'm stuck with a fundamental. Let's say I have an image dogs.jpg in the Pets folder, and I want to crop the image, rename the result DogHead, and place it in the Misc folder. In Photoshop Elements, or any Microsft program, I would do File | Open, then crop and click Accept, then do File | Save As.
How do I do these steps in Aperture? In Aperture, there doesn't seem to be a File | Open, so I created a new Project and imported dogs.jpg. Then I cropped the image, but I don't see how to accept the crop (no Done button, no check box). And I can't see how to save the edited result to a file Misc\DogHead.jpg.
I know this is a very basic question, but I've spent hours Googling and looking at Apple help and tutorials, and I can't find what to do. Any help would be appreciated!

Hard to know where to begin with this as it's a bit of a quantum shift from what you're used to.
Aperture is a management and processing system for photos, not an image editor.
Currently, you're using the Finder to manage the files, editing with Elements and storing in the Finder.
Aperture replaces the Finder, and in a great many cases, Elements too.
And it's all about a lossless system of managing the photos.
Import a pic to Aperture. From now on, +forget about the file+, it's all about the photo.
So, crop the photo. A new version is created. Automatically. No need for a: that whole "Save As and Rename" palaver. But your original is still safe. Want to do a different edit? No problem - New Version from Master and now you have two versions.
But here's the thing: there's no file except the master you imported. All these decisions are stored in the database and applied live when you view the shot and or versions.
So, no extra file, no extra folders to manage, and most importantly, no generational loss when you edit the jpeg.
Want to email the pic? Well use your Aperture Previews and access the Library via the Media browser in your email client, or email from within Aperture.
The only time a new file is created is +when you export+.
Confused? By all means ask more.
Oh, and this is not an "Apple" thing. Adobe's Lightroom works the same way.
Regards
TD

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Regards
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