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In this movie, we're going to talk about Aperture's use of Batches and Borders. Aperture applies borders and or a series of tiny icons visible in the Browser and the Viewer and also the Light Table, Book Pages and Web Pages and in Full Screen Mode. It gives you important information about various aspects of the image. A heavy white border indicates the currently selected and active image. A thin white border, both in the Browser and in the Viewer, identifies additional images that are selected, but the heavy white border indicates the primary image. Yellow borders indicate that your in Quick Preview Mode. This means the mode that uses the available JPGs rather than your current Aperture settings including the raw conversion settings. A green border indicates that you're in the Compare and Select Mode by which you can set one image as the standard and the other images that you compare to it to the side which you might want to use for a specific purpose. You'll notice that on this image there are a variety of small icons in the lower right corner. Let's zoom in to look at these more closely. This icon on the farthest right indicates that Keywords have been applied to this image. One or more Keywords give you the same little badge. The next icon or badge indicates that Adjustments have been applied to this image. This badge, the circle with a dot in it, is important because it indicates that the image has been edited with an external editor and is in fact a new master that's either a tif or a PSD file that was created when you sent it to the external editor. The same icon appears if you edit the image using a plug-in, since a new master file is created for that as well. A checkmark on the top of the image in the Browser identifies it as the Album Pick. This means that it's the version of the image that Aperture will use if you create a Slideshow or other output from this Album and it's only available in an Album, by the way. Even if this version is not the highest-rated image in the stack or in the premier position, we open the stack and you'll see that the main Project, this is the main image that would be used since it's farthest to the left in the stack. However, I've selected the black and white version of the image to be used as the Album Pick in this Album. And so it's identified with a checkmark. We'll talk more about how to do this when we talk about using stacks. This icon indicates that this is a Referenced File. Its master is stored outside of the Aperture Library but it's currently available. A red slash through the icon, let me zoom in, indicates that the master is unavailable. If you want to know where the file is located, you can go up to File, Show in Finder and it will tell you where you've stored the master image. In this case, on one of my backup drives. At times you might see a yellow exclamation point appear in the middle of this icon or badge. That means that the image's master has not been found. It may have been deleted or corrupted. When images are in a stack, there's a small number on the top left indicating the number of images in the stack. When an image is used in a Book, Web Journal or Light Table, a number will appear on the top right indicating how many times it's been used in that output. On an image such as this where you have a small thumbnail and you have a lot of information because we also have the badges indicating the rating, four stars in this situation. If I change this image to five stars, the stars start to encroach on the other badges and so I get a badge that just indicates that there are badges there, but you can't see them right now. You can see them in the Viewer. You can opt to toggle the visibility of the badges by pressing the Shortcuts U and Y so that the badges appear in the Viewer and the Browser or disappear. Badges are just overlays. They won't actually appear in your output.