Organisation in Aperture 2 vs 3

Hi,
I briefly played with Aperture 2 ages ago, but decided iPhoto was fine for what I needed at the time, with round-trips to Elements as needed.
Aperture 3 looks quite nice, so I want to re-evaluate that decision - I have started shooting infra-red using a modified dSLR using raw and it's a bit of a pain to use iPhoto with raw and different versions.
I'm a bit confused with the whole projects/folders/albums thing, but have access to the Apple training manual for Aperture 2: "Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 2"
Have the organisational aspects of AP3 changed much with relation to AP2?
Will this book be much help in understanding AP3 photo organisation?
Cheers
Darren

A3 still uses projects, albums, folders, etc... in the same way.

Similar Messages

I'm organising my Aperture library today and I'm going to go through my photos folder, import the images to Aperture and then delete the original folders. Just curious if deleting the source folders is a big no-no or not.

Topic title basically sums it up.

Alright. For my case was, my source files are inside the Document folders. Since importing the pictures into Aperture, deleting the source files/folders did not cause any problems with Aperture.
Whether it is a good idea or would depend on how comforatble you are with the idea in the first place. On one hand you can save up precious hard disk space, while on the other if the Aperture library gets corrupted, you might lose everything. Of course, having a backup of the Aperture library helps, as well as a time machine backup of it. On top of that you can also have an Aperture Vault to backup the library to a external drive.
In summary i think a reasonlable backup plan is just as important regardless of whether or not the source file is in which location. For my case, i only have the Aperture library as all of my source. A time machine backs up everything including my library, in addition to that, i also use Aperture Vault to back up to another external drive just in case.

Exporting project- folder structure to other Non-Aperture applications

Hello,
I'm about to lay the foundation for a new Aperture installation. As far as organizational structure goes, this what I have in mind:
1 Project / year
1 Album / event
Example:
Project 1993
Derek's Birthday album
Linda's wedding album
Project 1994
Robert Birthday album
Bob wedding album
At some point, I will want to export the whole structure or some projects to family and friends who would like to view these images on their PC (not everyone is converted to MAC, yet).
I understand the Export>Projects command generates a file that can only be understood by Aperture, so useless for sharing with non-aperture users. What I'd like to do is:
1) Translate the project-album structure to a folder-subfolder structure in order to share images with other PC users.
2) At the same time export images versions as opposed to masters.
3) At the same time export all added Metadata.
I have the feeling Aperture is not ready to do all of the above with one command only. How can I maintain the project structure in order to share with other PC users? I guess only a script will be able to do this...
Thanks for your feedback.

fbellay wrote:
At some point, I will want to export the whole structure or some projects to family and friends who would like to view these images on their PC (not everyone is converted to MAC, yet).
1) Translate the project-album structure to a folder-subfolder structure in order to share images with other PC users.
Albums simply don't translate sensibly into Finder folders, in the same way that iTunes playlists don't. Any one Version can exist in any number of Albums, so you'd either end up having to choose one place for the exported file to be and remove it from all the other folders representing Albums, or end up with multiple duplicate copies of the same file.
Projects, on the other hand, can be mapped directly to Finder folders. So you might be better off using Blue Folders and Projects rather than Projects and Albums.
2) At the same time export images versions as opposed to masters.
3) At the same time export all added Metadata.
Exported Versions will automatically include IPTC & EXIF metadata, assuming you chose an export preset with metadata included.
I have the feeling Aperture is not ready to do all of the above with one command only.
There are some AppleScripts that will replicate the structure within Aperture when exporting (or Aperture Assistant* to do it without any scripting knowledge), but as I mentioned already, you will end up with multiple duplicate files.
Also, you would have to do this again every time that you alter a Version, import files or move Versions around.
Basically, the virtual nature of both images and organisation in Aperture mean that it won't really work in the way that you wish, and LightRoom wouldn't be much better even though it has closer ties to the folder structure.
Why not simply export a Projects-worth of images in this way rather than your whole Library?
Ian
* http://aperture-assistant.com/docs/how-do-i-copy-apertures-organisational-struct ure-when-exporting
“I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.”

Getting images to my phone from two computers (Aperture )?

i am creating Albums in Aperture on my MacBookPro in order to SYNC these images to my iPhone when i sync my phone to my laptop.
i am IMPORTING images to my Mac Pro desktop in order to import these into my Aperture database when i sync my phone to my desktop computer.
i have also recently checked only the PhotoStream option on the Mac Pro desktop so that all the images that i recently imported to the database on the laptop machine can be made available to the iPhone.
the problem i am having is that i would like to keep the image sync from my laptop as this is the computer that i use to backup my iPhone but i would ALSO like to /add/ or SYNC some images to my iPhone from the desktop machine. is there a convenient way to do this that allows the images to stay organized as they do when i use the sync option in Aperture on my laptop?
is this a good time to start using Photos on the desktop machine and have these images synced to the PHOTOS app on my iPhone while i continue to use the laptop to sync images from Aperture?
any help would be really appreciated.

is this a good time to start using Photos on the desktop machine and have these images synced to the PHOTOS app on my iPhone while i continue to use the laptop to sync images from Aperture?
Photos for Mac is still a Beta version. There is not yet a stable, public release. You would have to update to MacOS X 10.10.3 (Beta) to be able to use Photos on your Mac. But the public release of MacOS X 10.10.3 with Photos is expected to happen soon - Apple announce "In spring".
See the preview: Apple - OS X - Photos Preview
Photos will make it easier to have a shared photos library accessible on all devices. But I would not trust my photo libraries to a Beta release, only test libraries to explore the features before I migrate.
Until you migrate, you might consider to use Shared albums with selected photos. These Shared Albums/Photo Streams will be synced in iCloud and look the same on all devices, see: iCloud: iCloud Photo Sharing FAQ
Added:
The Photos.app will not offer the same control over the organisation of your photo libraries as Aperture had. Re organization it has nothing to offer but Moments, Faces, Places, keywords, favourites, and (smart) albums. It is not a replacement for Aperture as a digital ***** management system. You may not want to migrate in a hurry, as you invested a lot of work in organising your Aperture libraries. I am setting up a small Photos library for sharing between devices, and are keeping one Aperture library to organize the bulk of my photos. Aperture will work concurrently to Photos, as long as we are using Yosemite.

Why use an external editor?

I have done a search on this basic question, but everyone is at least one step ahead of me. I found lots of questions about using external editors, but none on why to use one if the first place.
It's self-evident that the basic answer is to extend Aperture's capabilities. So let me narrow the focus of my question as follows:
1. Just out of curiousity, there must be at least some overlap in things that Aperture does and what the external editor can do, correct?
2. Can you share some guidelines as to when you would stay in Aperture itself and when you would use the external editor through Aperture?
3. An obvious question is why use Aperture when you have an external editor? The most likely answer is that Aperture does some things better, and the external editor does other things better. So does it come down to experience in deciding which program to use for what? As someone whose post processing has, for years, been limited to cropping, that's a pretty daunting reality. Any advice anyone can offer to offset my inexperience would be appreciated. For example, someone on a share-your-image type forum just blasted me when I posted something labled as my first effort at using a RAW file. I made "local" changes here and there in the image. He told me I'm doing things "totally wrong" and I should make global changes, and avoid making local changes. I don't know if he's right or not, but if he is, how was I to know that? So again, any advice for a PP newb would be great.
Thanks!
Ben

Good questions, Ben!
And probably the answers are a matter of taste and personal preferences, and depending on the workflow we are using.
2. Can you share some guidelines as to when you would stay in Aperture itself and when you would use the external editor through Aperture?
For me, the escape to an external editor is an occasionally necessary evil, if I really need to do things well, that Aperture cannot do. The problem is, that using an external editor will break Aperture's lossless workflow; it will create an additional original image file, and Aperture cannot undo the edits done in the external editor. And the additional original files will be gigantic 16bit tiffs or PSD files. So I would never use the external editor without a pressing need.
I use an external editor, if I need to create images with transparency or do advanced retouching that requires the composition of two or more images. That are things that Aperture cannot do.
Or, if I have images that need lens correction or perspective correction.
3. An obvious question is why use Aperture when you have an external editor?
I use Aperture first of all, to keep my images organised - my Aperture library is my database of all photos I have taken during my lifetime.
And I use Aperture to edit the images and to keep track of the edited image versions and how they relate. For 99% of my image processing needs Aperture is sufficient and great.
-- Léonie

Getting images to my iphone from two computers?

i am creating Albums in Aperture on my MacBookPro in order to SYNC these images to my iPhone when i sync my phone to my laptop.
i am IMPORTING images to my Mac Pro desktop in order to import these into my Aperture database when i sync my phone to my desktop computer.
i have also recently checked only the PhotoStream option on the Mac Pro desktop so that all the images that i recently imported to the database on the laptop machine can be made available to the iPhone.
the problem i am having is that i would like to keep the image sync from my laptop as this is the computer that i use to backup my iPhone but i would ALSO like to /add/ or SYNC some images to my iPhone from the desktop machine. is there a convenient way to do this that allows the images to stay organized as they do when i use the sync option in Aperture on my laptop?
is this a good time to start using Photos on the desktop machine and have these images synced to the PHOTOS app on my iPhone while i continue to use the laptop to sync images from Aperture?
any help would be really appreciated.

is this a good time to start using Photos on the desktop machine and have these images synced to the PHOTOS app on my iPhone while i continue to use the laptop to sync images from Aperture?
Photos for Mac is still a Beta version. There is not yet a stable, public release. You would have to update to MacOS X 10.10.3 (Beta) to be able to use Photos on your Mac. But the public release of MacOS X 10.10.3 with Photos is expected to happen soon - Apple announce "In spring".
See the preview: Apple - OS X - Photos Preview
Photos will make it easier to have a shared photos library accessible on all devices. But I would not trust my photo libraries to a Beta release, only test libraries to explore the features before I migrate.
Until you migrate, you might consider to use Shared albums with selected photos. These Shared Albums/Photo Streams will be synced in iCloud and look the same on all devices, see: iCloud: iCloud Photo Sharing FAQ
Added:
The Photos.app will not offer the same control over the organisation of your photo libraries as Aperture had. Re organization it has nothing to offer but Moments, Faces, Places, keywords, favourites, and (smart) albums. It is not a replacement for Aperture as a digital ***** management system. You may not want to migrate in a hurry, as you invested a lot of work in organising your Aperture libraries. I am setting up a small Photos library for sharing between devices, and are keeping one Aperture library to organize the bulk of my photos. Aperture will work concurrently to Photos, as long as we are using Yosemite.

Import from iPhoto, all or selective?

When I first import into Aperture from iPhoto, is it better to do it progressively, event by event or import the total library and organise within Aperture? Also, if I have photos in the wrong folder, can I just drag and drop into the correct one?

The import of iPhoto Libraries changed considerably since Aperture 3.3 and iPhoto 9.3.
Now Aperture and iPhoto share a unified library format. Any iPhoto library (version 9.3 or later) is also an Aperture library. You can simply open your iPhoto library in Aperture and use it with Aperture or iPhoto as you like.
But you cannot any longer import single iPhoto events or albums; there is no longer an iPhoto Browser in Aperture. But you can import complete iPhoto libraries into an Aperture library, if you want to merge your libraries into one.
See these support articles:
Aperture 3.3: Using a unified photo library with iPhoto and Aperture
and
Aperture 3.3: How to use Aperture to merge iPhoto libraries
When you are viewing your iPhoto Library in Aperture, you will see all your organization - the events will be projects, you will see all your faces, places,keywords, albums. It is easier to group projects/events in Aperture, so any new arranging would better be done after the transit.
Regards
Léonie
Added: If you have any hidden photos in iPhoto, unhide them before you open the library in Aperture, for Aperture cannot unhide photos hidden in iPhoto.

Ok, this is driving me crazy...

I apologise for the rant this is really annoying me (and it's probably just my lack of understanding).
I don't understand why when i move an Album to another project, it doesn't move the Master files associated with that album into the new project.
I'm just starting out with Aperture and I have over 2000 photos that i'm trying to organise into Aperture and I'm trying to move things around so they're in a more logical organised file structure. When I imported my photos, Aperture threw everything into one Project and divided everything below the Project (which I called "Old Photos") into brown folders and Albums. Now, I'm trying to move these photos into seperate Projects. For example;
After the import, I have a brown folder called "India Trip", and in this folder are around 30 Albums called "Day 1", "Day 2" etc etc (this is all within my "Old Photos" project). I've created a new Project called "India" and I want to move the albums over to it but the only way I can find to do this is to first click/drag the albums over (which doesn't copy the masters) and then go into each and every album, select all, and drag into the new Project in order to move the masters.
There MUST be an easier way of moving these images than this, right...? Am I just being an idiot?
Thanks in advance.

Yep, I understand that a Master can only exist in one project and that images in Albums are just links (thanks to your blog btw, it's been very helpful ), however when I look at the project level, all I see are hundreds of photos and it's not a very useful view to move specific sets of photos out of the project.
It seems like a crazy design decision to allow a user to move an album (a set of links) from one project that holds the masters it's linking to, into another project without giving you the option of moving the masters as well.
I appreciate that the way I imported the images (the default way) probably wasn't the best. but are you saying that the only way to move masters out of one project into another is to do it at the root/Project level? If that's the case, what's the point in having a folder structure? Like I said, i sure it's a mix between me not understanding Aperture and not being used to it.
I think I need to get to a point where I have alot more Projects with far fewer photos in but I'm not sure how best to get there.
Again, I apologise for the rant - I don't mean to. If anyone can give me any advice on how best to manage 2000 photos using Aperture then I would greatly appreciate it.

Best Structure for Organising Photos - iPhoto wouldn't do it, can Aperture?

Hi,
I was wondering if Aperture would let me organise photos in this way:
I have 'groupings' of files of pictures. For example 20 or so files containing university pictures inside a folder called 'university'. I then have 10 or so files containing pictures of the family inside a folder called 'family'.
What I would like to do is view the top folder (university or family) with a thumbnail, then go into it and view the subsequent folders as thumbnails, and then go into one of those and view all of the pictures as usual.
The problem is, if the 2nd level folders are all projects, I can't view them inside their respective 'top level' folder. Aperture (as iPhoto) appears to only let me view all 'projects' or all 'pictures'.
I tried having albums inside projects in the hope that clicking on the project would show thumbnails for each album but still with no luck.
I've had a look at the Aperture guide but this has proven unfruitful also.
Can anyone tell me if Aperture can do this and maybe if so, how it would do this because I'm at a loss?
Many thanks!!

Short answer is no. Neithr application is a folder-based "nesting" system.
They are databases.
Aperture is superior to iPhoto because you can have folders and within those you can have projects, and within those (or alongside in the folder as well) you can have albums, so it will work for you that far. It sounds like you've taken it that far at least.
The option to view as thumbnails is not available because of the skimming feature. All projects are displayed in such a way that all photos are visible, but the "top" photo is the representative key photo. That's similar to what you want to do, at least from a user interface POV, but it's a default behaviour, so the manner in which you want it to work is not how it can ever work. You cannot "nest" using key photos representing sub-folders.
Databases require you to organize your content along more rigid forms than file/older structures. Databases can handle a far larger volume of data and organize it with speed and efficiency as a result. You'll either have to change your system or use a non-Apple product.
mattnedgus wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if Aperture would let me organise photos in this way:
I have 'groupings' of files of pictures. For example 20 or so files containing university pictures inside a folder called 'university'. I then have 10 or so files containing pictures of the family inside a folder called 'family'.
What I would like to do is view the top folder (university or family) with a thumbnail, then go into it and view the subsequent folders as thumbnails, and then go into one of those and view all of the pictures as usual.
The problem is, if the 2nd level folders are all projects, I can't view them inside their respective 'top level' folder. Aperture (as iPhoto) appears to only let me view all 'projects' or all 'pictures'.
I tried having albums inside projects in the hope that clicking on the project would show thumbnails for each album but still with no luck.
I've had a look at the Aperture guide but this has proven unfruitful also.
Can anyone tell me if Aperture can do this and maybe if so, how it would do this because I'm at a loss?
Many thanks!!

Organise photos in Aperture

Hello,
I bought Aperture and I'm wondering how to organize my 5000 photos in it.
I want to work by year but what should I use for esach year (project,blue folder ??) ?
Inside a year what should I use to organize by event (album, yellow folder or projects ??).
What's the real difference between project and yellow folder and album ?
Thank you for your help to make my organization easy.
Calypso

Calypso,
Huh. You buy an application THEN think about how you're going to use it... Sorry - couldn't resist the dig - I did exactly the same thing.
Rather than repeat a whole bunch of stuff, do a quick search on organising and organisation in this forum - you'll find a whole bunch of prior threads with approaches and ideas. Also try spelling those words with a "z" to capture the people wot don't use English spelling.
The good Mr Boyer has a nice article on his website that you'll probably locate the link to in his search, and bagelturf.com is also worth a look.
Oh, how do I arrange? Blue folder called "my projects", containing another blue folder labelled 2001, 2002 etc. The year folders contain the projects and albums etc. I also have a separate blue folder called Work in Progress, where there is a default project called "Incoming" for the imports, and projects for stuff I'm currently working on.
Enjoy the journey!

Is Aperture for me? (Photo organisation for a non-professional)

I'm not a professional photographer, I'm just looking for a way to better organise my personal photos. However I am a graphic designer and know my way around editing photos and I have some of RAW files too.
So, currently, my iPhoto library is a wasteland- mostly duplicates that I imported at some point for some reason or another.
The rest of my photos are simply in named folders. I have about 200 gigs of the stuff, going back to 2006 (plus older ones on other drives)
Currently, I simply use cover flow and quick view to browse photos. It works surprisingly well, but it's no match for a proper solution (geotagging, face recognition, creating books, flagging, rating, etc.)
So, if you use Aperture, I'd love to ask you:
• Is Aperture your primary photo organisation tool, or do you also continue to use the finder or other solutions at the same time?
• How is storing photos on an external drive handled in Aperture? Is it easy, or does it involve a lot of dragging stuff around and messing up your existing events/albums?
• Once photos are stored on an external.. how do you back them up in case that drive fails?
• On the Apple "iPhoto to Aperture" page, they say iPhoto and Aperture share their libraries. So what happens to photos Aperture has moved to an external drive, do they disappear from iPhoto?
• How's the speed? I always found iPhoto to be slow and unresponsive. I do have the 13" MBP from 2010 (2.4 Ghz, Intel Core 2 Duo) but it does everything else smoothly so I fail to see what is so intense about iPhoto to justify the poor performance.
I plan to upgrade to a new MBP, so maybe this is a moot point.
• Is importing all my old photos gonna be pretty straightforward? I'd assume Aperture will take the dates on the files, rather than the date I import them.
• Since I never used iPhoto much, I don't get the difference between an Event and an Album- though I assume that events are for separating photo dumps (say, your visit to italy and your skiing trip) and albums are for combining an arbitrary set of photos (for instance your best travel photos featuring images from italy and the skiing trip among others), so when you delete one from an album, the image is still in the event, but if you delete from an event, it goes to the trash?... is this correct?
• any other advice you may have
Thanks!

I will comment on some of the items and exclude the external drive questions as I use a 'Managed' library on the internal drive.
• Is Aperture your primary photo organisation tool, or do you also continue to use the finder or other solutions at the same time?
I use Aperture specifically for organizing, viewing and enhancing images from my camera (with one proviso noted at end of this section). Since I use Photoshop and Illustrator to create composites and other graphic images, I keep that type of work outside of Aperture and use Bridge to view those in the finder disk structure. Basic line of thought here is just like iTunes is for music files, Aperture is for camera image files.
Although I could hold composite PSD files from Photoshop inside the Aperture library, I don't simply because I don't know if Apple may decide not to support those fully in the future. I used to keep PSD files in the library, but moved away from that practice.
Note - the proviso mentioned above is that I do have one Project that contains imported composites and rasterized Illustrator files that I wish to sync with iDevices. This is the only place I keep anything other than JPEG or RAW original camera files in the library.
• How's the speed? I always found iPhoto to be slow and unresponsive. I do have the 13" MBP from 2010 (2.4 Ghz, Intel Core 2 Duo) but it does everything else smoothly so I fail to see what is so intense about iPhoto to justify the poor performance.
I plan to upgrade to a new MBP, so maybe this is a moot point.
Aperture's speed depends on what you are doing in the program. Importing many images can take a little time, but no more so than other programs (e.g., Lightroom or even Bridge - which has to build it's cache). Face detection can take some time if you have a lot of faces in the images, but once it completes it is done.
Making adjustments to images can be quick in most of the adjustment bricks and HUD's, although; the retouch and skin softening brushes can become slower when you are adding a lot of local adjustments. This is no different than in Lightroom or Adobe Camera RAW when using brushes. Photoshop actually edges out these programs if you use layers and masks when brushing as far as processing speed goes, but that takes time to create a layer > fill > brush adjustment. Since Aperture does the masking for you on the fly, the speed is pretty much a wash.
Note - if iPhoto is slow and unresponsive on your machine, it may be due to something in the library database being the issue. However, it seems that most software creators (Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, etc.) always want to take advantage of the leading edge hardware when possible, which can lead to depleted performance in underpowered machines. With your machine, I would probably look at the library first aid items to improve performance though as iPhoto should be able to run decently.
• Is importing all my old photos gonna be pretty straightforward? I'd assume Aperture will take the dates on the files, rather than the date I import them.
Importing is easy and you have a number of options. Aperture will read the metadata of the image files and if the date and time are there, you can use that as the naming scheme if you wish. I would suggest reading the bit about file naming presets here:
http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/usermanual/index.html#chapter=4%26sec tion=6%26tasks=true
I will leave the external drive ideas to others who run a reference library as they will have much better information than I can provide.
• Since I never used iPhoto much, I don't get the difference between an Event and an Album- though I assume that events are for separating photo dumps (say, your visit to italy and your skiing trip) and albums are for combining an arbitrary set of photos (for instance your best travel photos featuring images from italy and the skiing trip among others), so when you delete one from an album, the image is still in the event, but if you delete from an event, it goes to the trash?... is this correct?
In either iPhoto or Aperture, you have to import image before the programs know about them and therefore before you can work with them in the program. iPhoto uses 'Events' to hold imports and Aperture uses 'Projects'. They are really the same thing - a container for the imported images.
In both programs, Albums are manually created collections of 'aliases' to the imported images that reside inside the Events / Projects. If you delete an image alias in an Album, it only removes the link to the image in the Event / Project. If on the other hand you delete the imported image from the Event / Project, then it will remove the image as well as any aliases to that image that you have created in Albums.
In both programs, if you delete an image from the Event / Project where it resides, it will go to the program's internal Trash first. If you then emtpy that internal Trash via command, it will go to the Finder trash. Note - you can put an image back from the program's internal Trash without re-importing. If you send to the Finder trash, you will need to re-import the image if you want to replace it.
Both programs also incorporate 'Smart Albums' which are created using filtering criteria and remain dynamic. Meaning any current image that meets the filter criteria will be shown as well as any future image that meets said criteria (either via import, ranking, keyword, adjustment, etc.).
Note - the library structures in both programs don't really mirror the file structure on disk. While you can try to set it up that way (and many users may well do that) - I just felt it was too time consuming for me. So I just use Aperture like I do iTunes. Camera image in > organize > enhance as needed > enjoy.
One thing in Aperture that is really nice is a feature called 'Quick Preview Mode'. With the click of a button or a keyboard press, you can tell Aperture not to worry about rendering an adjustable version and just show you the image as it currently is. Really great for cruising the images. Just remember to switch off the Quick Preview Mode when you want to make adjustments.
http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/usermanual/index.html#chapter=5%26sec tion=7%26tasks=true
Hope that helps.

A possible guide to organisational structure in Aperture

My take is that one should first think of an ‘exclusive’ organisational structure, ie, a structure that is unambiguous, that says this picture should be here and not anywhere else, and implement that structure using projects and blue folders. Such a structure could be based on, eg, holiday locations, type of events and the events themselves, or customers.
Secondly, one should think about how else one wants to access ones images and use albums for that (and group with folders when necessary). This often can be done via topical criteria (eg., people vs landscapes). Using keywords and other metadata in conjunction with search and smart albums falls into the same category. To a certain extent this topical structure can and will be identical with the 'exclusive' one.
A lot of people choose the date as an unambiguous criteria. That is a somewhat lazy and unimaginative way (but it naturally works). But I think it is worth to make the effort to create a more descriptive structure

And then there's "The DAM Book", which a lot of photographers adhere to. This book's whole reason for being is to present an organization for storing digital assets.
However, I suspect a lot of us have developed a "modified" version of that gospel.

Aperture Library Organisation

How do you orgainse your Aperture library?
I haven't quiet got to the bottom of order of filing proirty - of projects, folders and Albums. or even what is the difference between them?
Then there's smart Albums - how do you use them?

Start with Kirby Krieger's exellent User Tip
The Well-Trod Path: a Beginner's Guide to how Aperture's major parts inter-relate
and then post back with a more detailed question.
Generally you will have to design your Aperture library structure to suit your needs, and we would need to know, how you want to use your Aperture library and how you need to retrieve your pictures.
Regards
Léonie

Organisation suggestion for Aperture and maybe other Forums.

On the Aperture Forum there are a number of topics that come up time and time again, some relate to problems, some to usage and some are newbie orientated.
Would it help to have a section to handle these. It could be called, for example, Regular Problems and Questions. Beneath that would be some headline categories such as;
Printing, Recovery, Set-up, Common Problems, New Release
It might then help to discourage the relative large amounts of screen space used up with questions taht can appear several times each day.
This is especially so with new releases. Change always causes problems and it would be useful to see New Releases separated and the main questions again headlined so that they don't dominate the Forum.

This would be good in many forums - if users would look ;( - in the iPhoto forum there probably are five or six topics that repeat and repeat creating a very substantial percentage of the total questions
This would be a "User Tips Library" for a specific application - I think it makes sense and recommend it too
LN

Organising projects in aperture?

As a total beginner to aparture how does one move projects to folders. I have tried dragging but they pop back out!

Guessing ... you cannot drag the Projects shown in the Project View and place them on the Library tab of the Inspector. Double-click the Project (or Projects) in the Project Viewer that you want to move. This will open a Browser showing all the Images in the Project(s), and it will select the Project(s) in the Library tab of the Inspector. It is now short work to drag-and-drop the selected Project(s) from the current location to a new location (in a Folder, as you wish).
HTH.

Organisation in Aperture 2 vs 3

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for