Apple Aperture Getting Started - Manual (Page 30)

30 Chapter 3 Learning About the Aperture Interface
To choose an option when you first open Aperture:
1 Click the button next to the option you want.
2 Click Continue.
The Aperture Main Window
This is the main window that you’ll routinely use in Aperture.
Note: The inspectors are not shown when you first open Aperture. To show or hide the
Inspectors panel, press I. You can also double-click an image to open the Inspectors panel.
To help you learn Aperture, you can hold the pointer over a control in Aperture and a
small box called a tooltip appears with a description of the control. Next to the
description is the keyboard shortcut for using the control. You can turn the display of
tooltips on or off in the Preferences window.
Projects panel
Browser
Toolbar
Adjustments Inspector
Metadata Inspector
Viewer
Control bar
Example of a tooltip.
You can press Control-G
to switch the Browser
to grid view.