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In this movie, we're going to talk about some helpful shortcuts. It used to be that keyboard shortcuts were essential to working efficiently in Aperture. However, the Customizable Toolbar with well-placed icons scattered throughout the interface has reduced the need to memorize quite so many shortcuts. Nonetheless, I'm going to go through some of them because they can still help you work faster. If you've listened to some of the other movies, you've heard me mention V as in Victor. When I press V, I toggle through the different Views where I can double click if I've set the Preference up to alternate between Viewer and Browser and Viewer Alone. The W Key allows me to toggle through the different sections of the Inspector Panel. If course you could come over here and simply click on any of the Tabs as well. F as in Frank will take you in and out of Full Screen Mode. You could also use the icon to enter and exit Full Screen Mode, but notice that I've removed it from my Toolbar in my regular view. The Z as in Zoom will Zoom you in to a 100-percent magnified view. However, there's also the Zoom Icon over here if you'd rather that will take you in and out of the Zoom View as well. Wherever your cursor is set, by the way, is the point that the Zoom will Zoom into. P will toggle Quick Preview Mode on and off. Notice that your interface will say Quick Preview and the Quick Preview On appears in yellow and a yellow border around the image. You could also just use the icon over here and toggle P on and off. H invokes the Floating Inspector or gets rid of it. One that I find that I rely on a lot is using the Tilde Key. I didn't even know what a Tilde Key was before I started using Aperture regularly. The Tilde Key is the one that's immediately to the left of the Number One Key on your keyboard. When you press it, it will bring up the Loop Tool. I'll make my Loop a little bit smaller here. Of course, if you have the Loop Icon in the Toolbar, you can also use the Loop Icon to invoke and remove the Loop Tool. Two-Finger Dragging on a track pad will increase and decrease brush size when working with Adjustment Tools, as will using the scroll wheel on the mouse or a trackball. If you have one of the newer laptops that has a track pad that supports Gestures, you can use Gestures within an Aperture. A swipe will advance you to the next image and pinching or pulling will change the size of the thumbnail in the Filmstrip or Viewer Mode. The Rotate Gesture will rotate the image and if you use it within the Straighten Tool, you can actually use it to Straighten the image. Most uses of the Gestures are pretty intuitive and natural. If you want to learn more of the Keyboard Shortcuts, when you click on any of the Menu Items, you will see a list of the shortcuts for those specific items to the right. The Arrow Key refers to the Shift Key. The Four-Leaf Clover Icon refers to the Command, also known as the Apple Key. And this icon refers to the Option Key. I'm not quite sure what to call it. It's the Option Icon. So this would say Option, Command, A. The more of the shortcuts that you memorize, the faster that you'll work within Aperture.