Apple Aperture 2 - Manual (Page 110)

110 Part I Interface and Acquisition
An Overview of Importing Images
When you import from a camera or card reader, Aperture places the images in a
project. If you don’t select an existing project, a new one is created automatically.
As Aperture imports images, it generates a version file and an image thumbnail
corresponding to each master.
You can import masters directly from a camera or card reader and from your hard
disk drives.
When you import images, you can choose whether to have the masters stored in the
Aperture library or on a hard disk outside of the library, where they can be accessed as
referenced images. For more information about referenced images, see “
What Are
Managed Images and Referenced Images? ” on page 98.
As you import images, you can have Aperture automatically name and record
information about them. Aperture can assign filenames using custom naming
conventions, as well as record metadata such as captions, keywords, dates, copyright
and credit information, and IPTC information. You can even set Aperture to stack
related images together, keeping bracketed shots or a series of shots taken in quick
succession in groups that you can easily select and work with. For more information
about stacks, see Chapter 8, “
Stacking Images and Making Picks ,” on page 219.
Camera
Vault
(FireWire drive)
Import
Back up
Aperture library
(system disk)
Importing
to Aperture
Masters
Versions
Project
RAW
& JPEG