Understanding badge overlays, How badge overlays appear in aperture, P. 243) – Apple Aperture User Manual
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Chapter 11
Working with Metadata
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Understanding Badge Overlays
When you apply adjustments, keywords, or other changes to an image, Aperture marks
the image with a badge overlay. Badges can appear on images in the Viewer, Browser,
and Light Table, in book pages and webpages, and in Full Screen mode.
How Badge Overlays Appear in Aperture
The following table shows badges that appear on images in Aperture.
Badge
Definition
One or more adjustments have been applied to the image.
One or more keywords have been applied to the image.
Images are contained in a stack. The number indicates the number of images
in the stack.
The image has been edited with the external editor, and is therefore
represented by the master file created when the file was exported to the
external editor.
The image is an album’s pick image, the identifying image for that album, web
gallery album, web journal album, Light Table album, or book album.
Because of low image resolution, the image’s print quality may be affected.
This badge appears on images placed in book pages and webpages.
The number indicates the number of times the image has been used in a
given book, web journal, or Light Table arrangement.
The image has a referenced image master file.
The referenced image’s master file is offline.
The referenced image’s master file has not been found.
or
These four images are
stacked together; the
checkmark identifies this
image as the album pick.
Keywords and
adjustments have been
applied to this image.