Q: Could someone please help me restructure my projects,albums, folder system?
I find all kinds of info on how to set up during import, but can't find much info on how to redo all the things I missed before.
I would like to restructure and end up with,
Names, dates, so i can sort (or should put in folders or albums) by month and year.
It would have been easier to set this up correctly from day one, but I didn't think it would matter.
Now it does.
All help will be greatly appreciated
thanks
david s
Aperture 3, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Posted on Jun 16, 2012 10:08 AM
You have to first learn the parts of Aperture and what they do.
Hi David,
Read the first seven chapters of the User Manual, which provides an excellent overview of the interface.
I have written a very short naming of the parts which might help get your started.
After you know what the parts do, designing and creating your storage and retrieval structures are entirely up to you. Think carefully about _what_ you want to be able to do, and then set up your Library that you do it fluidly.
Time-stamping of Images, and sorting by time-stamp, is hard-coded into Aperture at both the Image and the Project level. In Projects view, sort by date using the drop-down at the top left of the border. You can sort "Photos" view, the same way, as well as group by year using the grouping icon. You can, of course, sort any group of Images by time-stamp.
Imho, since this functionality is built-in and always available, there is no reason to structure your Library by date. This hasn't persuaded many to not do so, however .
Posted on Jun 16, 2012 11:15 AM