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Part II

Photo Editing

Working with Two or More Projects Open

You can work with two projects open at once, splitting the Browser into a separate
pane for each project.

When you Option-click a second project in the Projects inspector, Aperture splits the
Browser into two panes and shows thumbnails for both projects. You can select images in
either pane and see the selections in the Viewer. You can also set the two panes to
different display options. For example, one pane may show images in grid view and the
other in list view. You may find that working with multiple projects open allows you to
easily copy or transfer the contents of one project to another. For more information about
opening and closing multiple projects, see “

Opening and Closing Projects

” on page 103.

Displaying Specific Metadata with Your Images

To help identify your images as you work, you can set Aperture to display the metadata
associated with images by changing metadata options in the Preferences window. For
example, you can set Aperture to display keywords, IPTC information, or EXIF
information with images in grid view. You can also configure two views of information
to be displayed with images and quickly switch between views. For example, the first
view might show ratings for use while photo editing. You might also create another
view to display IPTC and EXIF information as you manage files for export. You can then
switch between views to change the information that appears with your images
depending on the task at hand.

Project tab