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In this movie, I'm going to talk about using iPhoto and pre-existing Folders inside Aperture. If you've been using iPhoto and you're upgrading to Aperture, you can easily import your images. Come up to File, Import and choose iPhoto Library. You can choose to have Aperture leave the images in their current location or bring them in as Managed Files. Of course, you could also move them to any other location as a Referenced File. But the chances are that either you're going to bring them in as Managed Files or leave them in the current location. For this example, we'll leave them in their current location. If you've already pre-named your images in iPhoto, then you're going to want to leave the name set to their Master File Name. However, if you didn't rename them in iPhoto, you can use any of the Presets or Custom Presets that you may have created in Aperture to rename them, such as Custom Plus Master. I'm going to leave it set to Master File Name and click Import. You'll get an Error Message for any images that can't be found. Perhaps they've been deleted. Perhaps they're on a hard drive that's not connected. The iPhoto Library appears as a Folder with another Folder for the events and Projects for the specific events that you have within iPhoto. Click on any of them to see the images that were in those events. Sometimes you might want to use your Aperture Library within iPhoto. For example, if you want to create cards. In that case, open iPhoto, go to File, Show Aperture Library and you can scroll to any of the images within your iPhoto Library, select which ones you want and you can add them to a pre-existing Folder or to a new event. The integration between Aperture and iPhoto is very, very convenient. It's possible that you already have an extensive Folder structure set up with your images and that you want to import those directly into Aperture now. For example, I've set up a structure with a Folder called 2008 with Subfolders for each month and then Subfolders within those months for specific shoots. I want to bring that into Aperture. I'll go to File, Import, Folders into a Project. However, first it's important before I do that to come up and click on Library. That way when I come to File, Import, Folders as Projects and I select my Folder, I'm going to opt to leave it in its current location, although of course I could choose to have it as Managed Files as well, and once again I could rename the files if I hadn't already done so. But chances are if you've got an extensive system going that you've already renamed them. I'm going to click Import. By clicking on Library, my Folder structure is going to be imported as a new Project. In just a second we'll see that. So I have a Project called 2008 with a Subfolder called April and Albums for each of the Subfolders within it. The other months that I created did not have any images in it, so no Folders exist for those. Had I clicked on a Project by accident when I clicked Import, then 2008 would have been imported within that Project. 2008 would appear as a Folder. The month would be a Folder and then Albums within it for each of the specific shoots. Instead of going to the File, Import Menu, you can drag Folders directly into Aperture and again, it depends if you click on Library first or within a Project where those Folders will be imported. However, I think that there is currently a small bug in that the Folder structure sometimes gets lost and the Albums don't appear so that while your images are imported, you lose the separation. So if you have an extensive Folder system, I'd recommend that you use the File, Import Command rather than just dragging them in. If you want to bring an individual image or two in, you can certainly drag them directly into a Project. A new Album will not be created for them. They'll just become part of the existing Project or Album that you select to drag them directly into. When you drag an image in, it becomes a Managed File and is part of the Aperture Library. In that case you may want to remember to delete the original so that you don't have two copies.