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Selecting images – Apple Aperture 2 User Manual

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Part II

Photo Editing

Selecting Images

Aperture provides fast and efficient ways of selecting images, depending on your work
style and preferences.

You can select images in the following ways.

Task

Action

Select a single image

 Click the image.
 Press the arrow keys to navigate to the image.

Select a range of images

 Click the first image in a range, then Shift-click the last image.
 Press the arrow keys to select the first image, then press Shift and

the arrow keys to select the last image in the range.

 Select the first image, then choose Edit > Select to End (or press

Shift-End) to extend the selection to the last image in the Browser.

 Select the last image in a range, then choose Edit > Select to

Beginning (or press Shift-Home) to extend the selection to the
first image in the Browser.

 Drag a selection rectangle to select all the images that fall within

the rectangle.

Select an image among
selected images

 Press Semicolon (;) or press Command–Option–Left Arrow to

select the previous image in the selection. Press Apostrophe (‘) or
press Command–Option–Right Arrow to select the next image in
the selection.

Select an image in a stack

 Press the Right Arrow or Left Arrow key.

Select nonadjacent images

 Command-click the images you want to select. Command-click

the images again to deselect them.

Slide a selection

 Press Command–Left Arrow or Command–Right Arrow to slide the

current selection over by one image. For example, you can move a
three-image selection left or right by one image at a time.

Select the next stack

 With a stack selected, press Option–Page Up or Option–Page Down.

Select or set a compare image

 Select the image, then press Option-O.

Deselect the compare image

 Press Command-Return.

Select a different compare image  Select the image you want as a compare image, then press Return.

Select all images in the Browser

 Choose Edit > Select All (or press Command-A).

Select only the primary image,
deselecting all others

 Choose Edit > Reduce Selection (or press Shift-E).

Deselect all images in
the Browser

 Click the gray background of the Browser, or Choose Edit >

Deselect All (or press Command-Shift-A).

Deselect the current selection
and select all unselected images

 Choose Edit > Invert Selection (or press Command-R).