beautypg.com

Apple Aperture User Manual

Page 47

background image

Chapter 2

The Aperture Interface

47

I

Version Buttons

Stacking Buttons

For details about working with stacks, see Chapter 8, “

Stacking Images

and Making Picks

,” on page 175.

Adjustment Tools

A

Duplicate Version

Click this button to duplicate the selected image version, with all
applied metadata and adjustments.

B

New Version
From Master

Click this button to create a new version from a selected image’s
digital master file.

A

B

A

B

A

Stack

Click this button to group the selected images in a stack.

B

Stack Pick

Click this button to mark the selected image as the stack’s pick, or
best image.

A

Selection

Select projects, albums, and images with this tool.

B

Rotate Left

Rotate an image to the left with this tool. You can use this tool to
rotate an image displayed in the Viewer or Browser.

C

Rotate Right

Rotate an image to the right with this tool. You can use this tool to
rotate an image displayed in the Viewer or Browser.

D

Straighten

Use the guides to help manually straighten (or level) the
selected image.

E

Crop

Trim the selected image with this tool.

F

Spot & Patch

Remove imperfections in the image, such as sensor dust, with this
tool. The tool either copies the pixels around the blemish (“spotting”)
or copies pixels from another area of the image (“patching”).

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I