What are projects, What are albums – Apple Aperture 2 User Manual
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What Are Projects?
You organize your masters and versions using projects. A project is a container
consisting of image versions and their corresponding masters. A project can hold tens
of thousands of masters, and you can create as many projects as you wish up to the
limitations of your disk space. For example, you can create a new project for each of
your shoots. Or if you do several shoots of the same subject, you may want to create a
project that encompasses all of the shoots. Projects are the most basic component of
Aperture because they contain your masters and track all changes to versions.
You can easily transfer projects from one Aperture system to another. All links between
versions and their masters are maintained when projects are transferred. This is
particularly useful if you use a portable computer when on location or away from your
studio, and a workstation at your studio. For more information, see “
You can have multiple projects open at the same time, each represented by its own
icon in the Projects inspector and tab in the Browser.
What Are Albums?
An album is a container in the Aperture library that holds only image versions (not the
masters to which they refer). You use albums to organize images in the library, making
your selections of versions easier to manage. You can create albums at the library level
or within a project.
You use albums created at the library level to organize versions from multiple projects.
For example, you can create an album to consolidate your favorite images, or “selects,”
from multiple projects. You can then publish this collection of selects on your website
or export the album’s contents for review by a prospective client.
Projects
Project opened to show
its contents