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Mastering Apple Aperture

You're reading from   Mastering Apple Aperture Apple Aperture is powerful, fully-featured photo editing software and keen photographers, whether pro or enthusiast, will benefit from this fantastic, step-by-step guide that covers the most advanced topics.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849693561
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Thomas Fitzgerald Thomas Fitzgerald
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Advanced Importing and Organizing FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Adjustments 3. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Curves 4. Aperture in Action 5. Extending Aperture 6. Exporting and Outputting to the Web 7. Making Metadata Work for You 8. Getting Better Prints from Aperture Index

Different ways of entering keywords


Keywords are an invaluable tool when it comes to finding your images at a later date. Entering keywords can sometimes seem like a laborious task, but there are ways to make it easier. In fact there are lots of different methods of entering keywords in Aperture. There are at least five different ways, so it would seem that the programmers really want you to use keywords! You can enter keywords using the following methods:

  • On import in the import dialog

  • From the info panel

  • From the Keyword HUD

  • From the keyword control bar

  • With the Lift and Stamp Tool

We have covered entering keywords on import in the first chapter.

Entering keywords from the Info tab

Entering keywords on the info panel is pretty straightforward. Select an image, and make sure you are on a view that has the keywords field displayed as shown in the following screenshot. You can now start entering keywords and can separate individual keywords with a comma. It is important to note that keywords are...

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