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In this movie, we're going to talk about exporting images, sometimes you'll want to export either Masters or versions of your images, with or without Metadata. Aperture has a variety of presets that you can use and you can also create your own presets which makes exporting an easy process. To begin let's look at exporting a Master Image. Select the image and then go to File, Export, Master, in the Dialog you'll specify where to send the Master File. If you're sending several it's a good idea to use a folder to make them easy to find. You can do that by specifying a subfolder format and naming it perhaps with a project name or you could leave that set to none and opt for a new folder and name it yourself. I'll use the subfolder Project Name. In addition you need to choose the main format for the image or images. Most of the time when I'm sending out a Master File I'll want to keep the Master File name so that I can keep track of it. But occasionally you might want to change it and use any one of the presets or you can go to Edit and create an entirely new naming preset as we saw in some the other movies. You have the option to include the IPTC Metadata or not or to have it in a sidecar. With the issues over images lacking proper identification I think it's a good idea to generally include the IPTC Metadata. Usually I want it with the file not separate, but separate can be useful when opening the information in a program that reads text files, such as when you're creating a spreadsheet about the images. I check the option to show an alert when it's finished because I find it handy to have Aperture let me know when it's done with the export. Exporting a version of an image is very similar, to begin you choose File, Export, Version. The Dialog Menu is essentially the same except we also have the option to select the Export Preset. I'll click in the Pop-up and you'll see that a lot of presets appear, if none of them are exactly what you want click Edit and you'll get access to all the Export Presets. If you want to create a new one begin with one that's close, click the Plus Icon, Rename it, I'll say No Watermark and on this particular version I'll opt to not show my watermark and then click OK. That will automatically be the selected Export Preset now in my Export Versions. Again, just as with exporting a Master you choose a subfolder if you want it or a new folder or wherever you want to send the images. Most of the time even with versions I used to use the current version name but occasionally you might be exporting the versions to send to a client, a contest or whatever and they may have a specific naming convention that you need to follow. In that case you can click Custom or Edit and create whatever template for the naming convention you need. Again, I check Show Alert when finished and then I export the version. You can also opt to just export the Metadata by going to File, Export, Metadata, in that case you must give it a name and then choose where to send it. Aperture also makes it possible to export images using Plug-ins, in essence the Plug-ins are presets developed by another software company that have all the parameters preset. You access these plug-ins from the software developers site, such as Flickr, you'll notice that I have File, Export, Flickr as an option in my Export Menu. I got the plug-in from Flickr, downloaded it, opened it and then I placed it in the Aperture Export Plug-in folder. That's found in your library, Application Support slash Aperture slash Plug-ins slash Export. Since there are times when I need to send my images out of Aperture, Aperture's exporting conventions make it a simple process.