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In this movie, we're going to talk about the Inspector. The Inspector contains a lot of the information that you need to have easy access to. It's this area over here that's controlled by the Inspector Icon in the top left of the Toolbar. It actually has three sections: one for the Projects, one for Metadata and one for Adjustments. You can toggle through these using the W Key as well. We'll talk about Metadata and Adjustments in other movies. In this movie, we're going to concentrate on the Projects Area of the Inspector. Notice that there is an option in the Projects Area to choose All Projects, Favorite Projects or Recent Projects. When you're working in Aperture and you've done a lot of work, you'll quickly accumulate a lot of Projects. There'll be times when you only want to see a few of the Projects. Perhaps you're showing your work to a client and you only want to show the Project that deals with that specific client and not any of his competitors or other Projects that you're working on or perhaps you just want to limit it to things that you've been working on recently and you don't want to have to wade through all your Projects. Well, Recent Projects will help you when you just want to limit the Projects to those that you've been working on recently. There isn't a control to specify how recent recent is, but Aperture makes its best guess of what you're going to want there. You can specifically control, though, what appears in the Favorites, either from the Recent Projects or from All Projects. We can choose a Project or an Album, either one. Let's choose Contests and come up to the Gear Icon and choose Add to Favorites. Now when we go into our Favorite Projects, it will be there. If we want to remove it, we'll click on the Gear Icon and choose Remove From Favorites. As with any other directory on your computer, there are Disclosure Triangles and when you click on them, they point downwards and show the contents. In this case, any Albums, Smart Albums, Folders, etcetera, Books that you've created. Most of the time you'll want to keep them closed in order to keep the Projects fairly reasonably manageable. There's a special section in the Library. By the way, notice when I click just on the Library, no images show up. There are special folders in there that Aperture creates automatically that will show all your Folders, just the five-star images, one-star or betters, rejected images, images that you took and imported in the last week or in the last month. Those can be helpful if you're trying to scan for an image that you know exists but you're not quite sure when you took it, if you want to go through those that you've rejected or if you want to see all of your five-star images, etcetera. There's also a Special Project up here called All Projects. This is the All Project View. It enables you to scan through all of your Projects. Simply hover your cursor over the Project and move it slightly and you can view each of the images that exists in that Project. That makes an easy way of glancing through and getting a visual reminder of what's in each of the Projects. Beneath the Project is a number that indicates how many images are in the Project as well as the dates of when you took those images. We'll go back to a regular Project. Sometimes you might not want to have the Inspector on the left side. In that case, click on the Inspector Icon and hide it. Or perhaps you need access to the Projects or Adjustments or Metadata. You can bring up a Floating Inspector by pressing H, which works basically the same way. There's a Projects Tab, Metadata Tab, Adjustments Tab that you can toggle among by clicking on the Folder Tabs or by using the W key. You can resize the Floating Inspector and you can place it wherever you want. When you're done with it, click the X in the top left and it disappears. That can be handy if you're using Full Screen Mode as well.