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In this movie, we're going to continue talking about importing images from a memory card. Notice that there is an option to add metadata from, and initially it says None, and you have a choice of All IPTC or any of the other metadata presets that exist within Aperture or some custom-created metadata presets. I'm going to show you how to create your own template that contains your name, contact information and a space for keywords in another movie. But once you've generated that template, it will be available in this pop-up menu. For now, I'll choose my Contact and Copyright Template and you'll see I've got a space for special instructions, my contact information and a space for keywords. I'll add a few keywords here that apply to all the images such as flowers, spring, Erie PA and you can add as many as applied to all the images that you want to import at the one time. Notice that my copyright symbol is also there. This is important because that way each file has your copyright on it and your contact information so your images don't end up orphaned and you get credit for them wherever they're used. At least you can pursue legal action if you don't. Over here there are options to Rotate your images because occasionally some of the older cameras don't automatically rotate images correctly. This rotates counter-clockwise and this rotates clockwise. Of course, if you go all the way around, it doesn't matter. Over here are options to Stack Images. Aperture will automatically Stack pictures based on how close together they were shot if you want them to. This Slider chooses how close together images needed to have been shot to be grouped together. Notice the longer timeframe I use, the more these images are going to be in one stack. Let's begin right here. Now, let's say that these stacks were pretty close to accurate but this image should have been included with these others in this stack. To add it, I'll Command click to select the Stack, as well as the image and come down here to the little icon that looks like a roll of Scotch Tape and click it. Notice that it was now added to this Stack and the number changed from six to seven to indicate that there are now seven images in this Stack. I can close the Stacks and then I will just simply see numbers on certain images indicating that there are Stacks under those images or I can have all the Stacks open. Now, let's come down a little bit farther and look through the different Stacks and let's say that when I created the Stack that it accidentally put too many images in one of the Stacks and that I really want to split the Stack and take these out. I click on this image, the image right after where I want the split to be and I'll click the Razor Icon and that creates a split so that these images are now in a different Stack. If you decide that you don't want any Stacks whatsoever, then simply click the Unstack Option. It's up to you whether you want the Stack during import or not. It can make it a little less overwhelming to go through your images if you shot a lot that are very similar. Before you actually click the Import Button, you must specify where to Import the images. Earlier we chose where to store the master files themselves, but now we're going to specify which Project and or Album to contain the images. You can click on a pre-existing Project and choose it. Notice that the Arrow appears by it or you can create a new Project. To create a new Project, come up to where it says New and click on Project. You'll see an Untitled Project appear and the Arrow jumps over to it. I like to name my Projects the same as the Folder when I use Referenced Files. So I'm going to call it Spring Flowers. After I click OK, then it jumps up into alphabetical order, the Arrow is by it and we're all set to Import. Now, a couple of other details. If I wanted to import into an Album, I would have had to have set the Album up ahead of time before I opened the Import Dialog. Unfortunately there's no way to add Albums directly from the Import Window. So if you wanted to have individual Albums such as Day One, Day Two, you'll need to create those ahead of time. If I went to Import this way, I'd only be importing one image; just that one image that's chosen. To import all of the images, I'll click in the Gray Area so that actually no images are selected and now by default, that will import all the images. If I only wanted to import a subset of them, such as this Group, then I would simply select them. But we'll assume that I want to import them all and then I would click Import All.