Apple Aperture 2 - Manual (Page 524)

524 Part IV Distribution and Backup
An Overview of the Light Table
The Light Table is used to arrange and view images. You can work with images in the
Light Table just as you would work with slides on a physical light table. You can place a
selection of images in the Light Table for review and drag them to new positions,
arranging, grouping, and resizing them in different combinations to see how they
might look on webpages or book pages. The Light Table automatically displays yellow
guidelines that show you how the item you’re working with aligns with other items
already on the page. You never run out of space in the Light Table—it grows as you
add images to it, and it’s easy to adjust the view by zooming in or changing the area of
the Light Table that’s shown.
You can use the Light Table when color correcting many related photos. You can arrange
related images together and carefully compare the color values between images.
You can also use the Light Table to sort images into related piles. After sorting, you can
select groups of images and assign keywords to all the images in a group at once.
You can use the Light Table to create editorial layouts as well, arranging images
onscreen to tell a story. You can put the selects from a given project in the Light Table
and arrange them so that they progress visually, eliminating repetitive images. As you
group and pair images of the same subject, you’ll find the Light Table ideal for
examining the relationships between images.