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In this movie, we're going to talk about customizing the Toolbar. That's the area at the top of the Aperture interface. By default Aperture places certain tools in the Toolbar. There are other menu-driven ways to access these same functions. For example, from the File Menu you can get to New Album, Book, Light Table, etcetera or the Import Window, Email, Slideshow. And from View you can get to Show the Loop, Enter Full Screen Mode, etcetera. The placement in the Menu Bar is for convenience. So the idea is to place icons there in a position that's logical to you for those functions that you use the most. To begin, let's go to View, Customize Toolbar. You'll notice that there are a lot of icons here. Now, I can drag these icons in and out of the Toolbar. First of all, I don't find that I use the All Projects Icon very often. I think it's convenient enough to access it from the Projects Panel in the Inspector, so I'm going to click and drag that out. When I like get there's a poof and it disappears. I prefer to have the Slideshow Icon over on the right side. I like having the Inspector there, the Import Window, the New Option and Email. I find those convenient. And over on the right I added Slideshow. But for my own personal workflow, I toggle among the views using the B Shortcut. I'm going to take the View Option out and I'm going to take Full Screen out because I toggle in and out of Full Screen using F. If you prefer to have the icons there, then leave them there. I like to have the option to Add New Version up there. That's New Version from the Version. And here's New Version from Master. We'll talk more about the uses for those when we talk about Adjustments. But I find it convenient to have those options right there. It's possible that you might want to find the Floating Inspector Access up there or perhaps you want to have access to your external editor in the Toolbar. I like to have the Move to Trash Option up there as well. So I click and put it up there. You can put any of these options up there that are convenient to your workflow. So you can also opt to separate them if you choose by adding a space or taking that space out. Now, while this is a workflow and a Toolbar setup that works for me personally, it might not be the ideal one for you. You need to specify and choose those icons that help you work more efficiently. When you do so, click Done. If you change your mind, simply come back to this Dialog and make changes or you could drag the default set back up into the Toolbar. When you finish, click Done. Now when you're working and every time that you open Aperture, these different icons will appear in the Toolbar. One more thing I want to point out is that I've opted to have the icons show as well as the text underneath. When you're in the Dialog, you do have the option to choose to Show the Icon Only or to Show the Text Only. But as I said, I think it's much more convenient to show both the icon and the text.