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To share previews with other applications:
1
Select the project whose images you want to share with other applications, then
choose Maintain Previews for Project from the Project Action pop-up menu (with a
gear icon).
2
Make sure the “Share previews with iLife and iWork” checkbox is selected in Aperture
(Choose Aperture > Preferences, then click Previews).
3
In the Projects inspector, Control-click the project and choose Update Previews for
Project from the shortcut menu.
When the previews are built, you can open any of the iLife and iWork applications and
use your Aperture images.
Generating Previews for Smart Albums
You can also create previews for images collected in Smart Albums. For example, you can
create previews for highly rated images only. For more information about working with
Smart Albums, see Chapter 13, “
Grouping Images with Smart Albums
To generate previews for Smart Albums:
1
Create a Smart Album and specify criteria for it using the Smart Album’s Query HUD.
2
Click in the Browser, then press Command-A to select all the images.
3
Control-click one of the selected images and choose Update Previews from the
shortcut menu.
When the previews are built, you can share them with iLife and iWork applications or
drag them to other applications.
Note: Previews for Smart Albums are not automatically maintained—automatic
preview maintenance is a project-level and library-level setting only. In this workflow,
you need to update the previews yourself periodically, by Control-clicking the images
in the album and choosing Update Previews from the shortcut menu. Aperture builds
previews only for the versions that have changed, so you don’t need to determine
which ones to update.
Determining Which Versions Have Previews
There isn’t a badge indicating if a version has a preview. You can Control-click the
version and choose Update Preview from the shortcut menu to learn if a version’s
preview is up to date (if the version’s preview is not present or needs updating,
Aperture will build it or update it). You can also drag a single version out of the
Aperture Browser, and a plus sign (+) appears over the pointer indicating that there is
a preview to drag out. If a plus sign (+) does not appear over the pointer, no preview
exists for the selected version.