Q: albums in projects
I'm obviously not understanding something....I set up a folder for a vacation trip. Then I set up 2 projects within that folder-week 1 and week 2. I then set up albums for each event within week 1 and week 2 projects. Once my images are in the albums, I don't need the original project they were imported into from a camera. How can I make the images in the album the originals? When I delete the project initially imported into from a camera, it also deletes the images in the album so obviously the images in the album are versions, not originals. Is there a way to move originals out of a project into albums so I can then delete the project? Hope I'm making sense here...
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
Posted on Nov 28, 2013 12:02 AM
Once my images are in the albums, I don't need the original project they were imported into from a camera. How can I make the images in the album the originals?
You need the images in the projects, Steve. Don't delete an image from a project, if you want to use that image in an album or somewhere else.
Your albums do not actually store the images, they only group the images contained in the projects and present a different view of the images in the projects. Projects contain images and albums use them, but do not duplicate them. You can add the image to many albums without needing more storage. An album is just a catalogue or index with references to images stored elsewhere.
When I delete the project initially imported into from a camera, it also deletes the images in the album so obviously the images in the album are versions, not originals.
Each image (and all versions of this image) are contained in exactly one project, and if you delete a version of an image from its "home" project, it will be removed from all other albums, books, screensavers, .. that are using this image version.
I think, you are misunderstanding the concept of version and original.
Both, albums and projects, will show you versions of images in your Aperture library.
When you import an image, Aperture will file away the original image file and create a current version of the image. The thumbnails in the browser and the viewer will display what your current mage version is looking like. All versions of an image are linked to the original image file, that will be needed when you are making adjustments. There is no special place in Aperture, where the originals are shown in the interface. The thumbnaisl show the versions.
You may want to have a look at Kirby Krieger's nice summary on libray items:
The Well-Trod Path: a Beginner's Guide to how Aperture's major parts inter-relate
and Frank Caggiano's Deleting version also deleted the master
Regards
Léonie
Posted on Nov 28, 2013 12:36 AM