Apple Aperture 3.5 - Manual (Page 463)

Chapter 12 Share photos online 463
Create webpages
Creating webpages overview
In Aperture, you can create webpages of your photos that you can post to your own website.
Then clients can conveniently review your work via the Internet.
You can use built-in Aperture webpage themes and designs to create two types of webpages:
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Web galleries show your photos in eye-catching settings and are designed to display photos
without your having to lay out pages by hand. Aperture automatically creates the appropriate
number of webpages and populates them with the selected photos. You can then adjust
the pages to make the photos appear as you want them. You can also choose the metadata
information, such as captions, names, and ratings, that appears next to each photo.
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Web journals allow you to mix photos and text on the page and are ideal for projects in which
you show photos with narrative to support them. For example, you might create web journal
pages that show and tell the story of an overseas shoot or a journalistic project. You manually
add pages, photos, and text to your web journal. You can choose a theme to apply to all your
pages, and you can change the layout of photos and text on your web journal pages.
To create a web gallery or web journal, you create a webpage or web journal album. When you
select the album in the Library inspector, the Webpage Editor appears. The Webpage Editor
is where you design your webpages, including changing the theme, positioning photos, and
adding text.
After you’ve laid out your web gallery or web journal pages in the Webpage Editor, you can save
them as HTML pages that you can post to your webpage server. When the photos are posted
online, you can give clients the URL of the pages, and clients can view them remotely.
Important: Web galleries and web journals created in Aperture are not visible when working
with your Aperture library in iPhoto. However, your web galleries and web journals are not
discarded. To view and work with your web galleries and web journals, open the Aperture library
in Aperture.
Create web galleries and web journals
Aperture web galleries and web journals offer a way to showcase your photos on the web. (For
descriptions of web galleries and web journals, see
Creating webpages overview on page 463.)
To create a web gallery or web journal, you must first create an album that holds the web gallery
or web journal photos. You can create an album from a selection of photos, or you can create an
empty album and drag photos into it.
You can also use the Aperture Smart Album feature to gather photos from the library or from
projects and place them on web gallery pages automatically. Smart Albums gather photos
based on search criteria that you specify. For example, you can create a Smart Web Page Album
that gathers your select photos from across the entire Aperture library. Then each time you
rate a photo Select, Aperture automatically adds it to your Smart Web Page Album and to its
web gallery.
Note: The Smart Album feature is not available for web journals.
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