How to hide certain photos in aperture

Question

hello everyone,
i am trying to hide certain photos from my huge library that my clients should not see accidentally for privacy reasons.
some photo-managers offer this ability but in aperture i didn't figure it out how to do it.
i found a workaround on the web, to rate those photos as 'rejected' and to set the filters down a notch to display everything but the 'rejected'.
that kind of works till i quite aperture. after starting aperture up again, the rejected photos show up.
i would have to set up the filters again to hide them.
this is not what i need.
has anybody a better and more reliable idea?
thx

Answer 1

hurgaaA wrote:
i still miss a simple 'hide' button in this application.
and, not everything you wanna hide is because of mummy..
there's something called privacy still and those files i'm talking about can be very innocent, but i wouldn't want to show them to you accidentally.
Unless you allow your clients to freely browse your library it's fairly easy to avoid showing unwanted pictures. The first thing I do before a sitting with a client is use the Favorites function: I select the client's project in the library pane, click the gear icon and choose Add to Favorites. Then I click on the looking glass icon in the search field and select Favorite Items — the client's project becomes the only one visible.
This works for me because I don't use this function for anything else, which means I enable and disable Favorites as needed for this purpose.
But the only reason I do this is to get a cleaner interface during a client sitting. If I didn't all the client would see is the names of my other projects and/or clients. He/she would never see the other pictures unless I selected one of these other projects myself or for some reason decided to browse through all my photos, which I would never do.
You say " i would have to set up the filters again to hide them. this is not what i need."
Filters for albums, folders and projects are sticky and will remain active until you disable or change them. Even between restarts. For instance, I organize my library with yearly folders as the top hierarchy but always add the 3 stars and above filter to those folders. If I click back to the 2007 folder it still has that filter enabled. This ability is extremely powerful, much more than a simple hide function because you can control visibility from a whole range of criteria.
To cut this short: the only time your clients would see photos that don't concern them is if you use the Photos or Projects sections of the library pane when you have someone sitting beside you.
I personally wouldn't  do that