Apple Aperture 2 - Manual (Page 583)

Chapter 21 Creating Books 583
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To inspect selected images in detail, you can also quickly display them in a standard
Viewer. When the Book Layout Editor is open, the Browser provides a button for quickly
switching to a standard Viewer.
To display a selection of images in a book album in a standard Viewer:
1 Select the images in the Browser.
2 Click the Show Viewer button.
To return to the Book Layout Editor, click the Show Viewer button again.
Placing Images Automatically
You can have Aperture automatically place your images in a book. It’s a good idea to
set up the page structure of your document first by creating the number of pages
needed and assigning the master page layouts that you want. Then arrange your
images in the Browser in the order in which they should appear in the book, and you
can have Aperture flow the images into the structure you created.
You can place all the unplaced images in your book at once, or you can select specific
images and have Aperture flow them into any empty pages. For example, you might
select several images and have Aperture flow them into the first several pages of your
book, and then select several more images and have Aperture flow them into the
following pages.
If you prefer, you can have Aperture create as many pages as necessary to hold all your
images and place them on the pages. Aperture creates new pages using master page
designs from the selected theme and fills them with your images. You can then change
the master page assignments if you wish.
Show Viewer button
Making Adjustments to Images in a Book
You can’t select and use the Straighten, Crop, Spot & Patch, Retouch, and Red Eye tools
in the tool strip when using the Book Layout Editor. To use these tools to make a
change to an image in your book, select the image in the Browser, then click the Show
Viewer button. The selected image appears in the Viewer and you can make your
changes. Click the Show Viewer button again to return to the Book Layout Editor.