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Aperture Organization By Year

Hello,

As ever, I still struggle with organizing in Aperture and have read a variety of threads on the topic.

I know I'm supposed to think of projects as permanent storage and albums as a means of organizing images.

Is there a way to set up projects up by year and then organize by month? In other words, I don't want to look at the stacks. Instead, I'd like a project to hold all photos from 2012. Within that project, I'd like the images sorted by month. I'd then like to make a variety of specific albums or projects within that, but ultimately, the most important thing for me is having all of 2012 together and then further subdivided by month.

Thanks!

lsb

iMac, Mac OS X (10.3.x)

Posted on Oct 25, 2012 5:51 AM

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Kirby Krieger

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Posted on Oct 25, 2012 6:05 AM

What you want to do can be easily done with Folders. But let's solve the whole problem.

What is your current organizational structure?

What needs for publishing or retrieval do you have?

Can you describe, briefly but not laconically, how you would like to interact with your photo collection, from import to export, over the course of a couple of years?

Does everything in this short post make sense to you?

What do you mean by "stacks" in "I don't want to look at the stacks"?

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