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Apple Aperture 2 Tutorials

Aperture Interface / Views pt. 2

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In this movie, we're going to talk about Full Screen Mode. Aperture opens in the regular mode by default, but a lot of people like to use Full Screen Mode. To enter Full Screen, simply press F. You'll notice that the background has changed to be black, which gives a dramatic presentation and the same number of images are showing up in the Viewer and instead of the Browser, you have a Filmstrip on the left. The Toolbar, by default, is hiding, but if you place your cursor near the top of the monitor, it will appear and all the tools that are scattered in various places in the regular modes are located now at the top. If you'd like this Toolbar to stay put, then click the icon at the far right and drag it down. Now when you release it, it will stay showing. If that icon is set to the top, when you move your cursor, it disappears. For now, let's make it show. The Filmstrip on the left is very similar to the Browser. It enables you to navigate through the different images as well as filter them. Right now my thumbnails are set to be as small as possible. If I set them larger, then that Filmstrip gets a lot larger and you can see it can encroach on the space for your Viewer as well. Normally you're going to want that to be probably as small as possible or at least fairly small. By clicking on the little buttons at the ends of the Filmstrip, you can resize the Filmstrip. Now, on a monitor with higher resolution than what I'm using now to make this recording, you'll find that you can resize and reshape the Filmstrip far more. If you don't want to have the Filmstrip on the left side, click and drag it down to the bottom and if you make it hit the bottom, it will move to the bottom. Again, I can click and drag and hit it over to the right side to make it move over to the right. But another way of moving it and placing it is simply to use the Gear Icon and choose its location that you'd like. I'll put it back on the left side. You may have noticed that there was another option here in the bottom and that says to Turn Hiding On or Off. Right now Hiding is On and what that means, when it's on, well, by choosing it I actually turned it Off. So now I've turned Hiding On and the Filmstrip stays out of the way of the images. When I toggle that control Off, then it can actually cover the images. But if I'm not near it, it totally disappears. So there are advantages and disadvantages to having it hide. If you want it to stay in place, it will stay on the left side and not cover the images. You also have the controls to choose how many images appear in the Viewer. The Viewer Icon is right here. So if I choose Show One, then only one image is going to show. And again, if I choose Show Multiple, then several images show. If I choose More Images and add to my selection, which I'm doing by holding down the Apple or Command Key, then multiple images are selected. Right now only the one image that has the heavy white border would be affected by any changes that I make, such as Add Ratings or Apply Keywords or Adjustments. If I want my changes to affect all the images that are in the Viewer, I would come up to the One Icon or the Primary Icon and click it and now all the images have the little white border around it. Full Screen Mode is often helpful when you want to show a single image in a very, very dramatic way. Perhaps you want to run through your images for a client or for friends. To exit Full Screen Mode, simply press F and you're back in the regular view.

Tutorial Information

Course: Apple Aperture 2
Author: Ellen Anon
SKU: 33899
ISBN: 1-934743-83-6
Release Date: 2008-08-22
Duration: 7 hrs / 101 lessons
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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