How do i copy an entire project of photos

Question

Good evening,
I am a "new" Aperture user and am looking to make a "duplicate" project and tweak the photos so I have 2 different projects
containing different dpi & bordered photos.
Is this possible ?
Thanx,
Marcus

Answer 1

markovavitch wrote:
& the learning continues...
Aperture is a brilliantly conceived and implemented application that has at its core a different paradigm of data management.  Your question shows that you are thinking of Aperture as a _file-manager_ and _file-creator_.  It's ... different, in a way that is almost impossible to grasp at first.  Aperture was designed — afaict — to address a problem photographers using digital cameras faced.  As cameras recorded more data, the files containing the data for each exposure got larger and larger, and both storage and data throughput were becoming problems.  All artists ever have been fond of making and trying variants — in painting schools Cling Wrap is used as a disposable clear film on which to paint ephemeral variants that don't alter the painting underneath.  As photographers took advantage of the ease with which variants of digital image files could be created, they were unintentionally using up all the computer resources they had available.  Enter Aperture.  Instead of creating _whole_ new files, it creates variants by saving _the instructions for how to create the variant_ instead of the variant itself.  The instructions require very _very_ little storage space.  The trade-off is that files that can be used by other programs _do not exist_ and are not saved to disk as image-format files.  When you need a file to use in another program, you create it by exporting an Image from Aperture.
Aperture is a workspace that saves your work as _the potential to make files_, but does not save those files themselves.
The "tweaking" that is done in Aperture is to make each digital camera file into an Image that is good as it can be for a particular use.  You specify DPI, and add borders, to files based on your Images when you produce those files by exported Images in Aperture.  For borders, use the excellent and highly-recommended Aperture plug-in BorderFX.
HTH.  You may find my concise intro to Aperture's parts useful.  I echo Léonie's recommendation of the User Manual.  The first 8 chapters provide a good overview of the program and some much-needed information about the UI.  In particular, understanding Projects, Albums, Smart Albums, and Folders — how they operate and how they differ — is essential for using Aperture without frustration.
—Kirby.