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Inside Aperture Podcast 17

by Derrick Story
07/03/2007

Toggle Primary Sometimes the advanced techniques make more sense when you fully understand the basics. In this Inside Aperture podcast, Joe Schorr reviews a couple of basic techniques, such as Primary Only, then moves into more advanced topics.

Primary Only is worth illustrating here. When you have a handful of images selected and are looking at them in viewer mode, you can visually tell if Primary Only is on or off. If it is on, then only one of the images will have a white border. Even though multiple images are displayed, any changes you make will only be applied to the one image with the white border.

When "Primary Only" is turned on, there is only one white border in viewer mode. Photos provided by The Digital Story members.

If Primary Only is turned off, then you will see faint white borders around all of the selected images, and changes will be applied to all of the selected photos.

When "Primary Only" is turned off, there are faint white borders around all of the selected images in viewer mode.

Joe does a great job of explaining Primary Only, then moves into other areas such as Album Picks. This is a discussion you'll want to listen to more than once!

(Inside Aperture, July 3, 2007: 22 minutes, 35 seconds)

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Derrick Story is the author of The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers, The Digital Photography Companion, and Digital Photography Hacks, and coauthor of iPhoto: The Missing Manual, with David Pogue. You can follow him on Twitter or visit www.thedigitalstory.com.

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Primary Only
2007-07-03 19:23:16 Cycomachead [Reply | View]

Yes, I agree. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. I didn't use if much (and kept it off, unless I accidentally hit 'S'), but once I got the training book.

Once again Derek, and Joe thanks for a great podcast.

Opps
2007-07-03 19:44:07 Cycomachead [Reply | View]

Sorry for spelling your name wrong! I have a friend that spells it that way.

Oh and now I also have to listen to the TDS podcast- you're keeping me busy. ;-)

Power Using Aperture
2007-07-10 09:44:21 Fhybr [Reply | View]

Joe and Derrick are doing a great job of bringing out all this power user information, but I wonder if all of this vital information is documented somewhere? I have gone back to the Aperture material, manuals, what's new information and find more and more information as I read them again and again.

Now I know I am one of about 10% who read the manuals, but shouldn't all the power of Aperture be documented for easy finding? I would like one location, a manual, where EVERYthing is laid out and easily accessed. I find myself searching Blogs, podcasts, Interviews, Teaching sites, Manuals, Readmes and getting hit and miss info, but no concise area of all the shortcuts, commands and power that Aperture has hidden under the hood.
But until that all comes together, please keep up the great information forum on Aperture.

John Houghton
Ontario Canada