![]() Good luck with that one - it didn't react at all to "Date" "is" "". Then the Smart Album pulled all the RAW files in the Project, not just the folder within the project where the Smart Album was located, so we had to filter by date. There's no way to filter results by File Type, so you have filter by File Name (with the RAW file extension, in this case. It took us more than 5 minutes of trying various combinations and banging our heads on the desk before we got the Smart Album to only display RAW images that were shot on the 28th December. The Projects system does give you the option of creating Smart Albums or Smart Web Galleries, which function similarly to Smart Playlists in iTunes – however, they're tricky little devils to get right. You can view the images full sized or fitting the window, but other than that, you're out of luck.) (And while we're on the subject of shortcut keys, hitting Apple and + or – as you do in Photoshop to zoom has no effect, as you can't zoom properly on the previews. The easiest way of navigating the interface is through shortcut keys, but good luck learning them they're included in a four page quick hints guide, and they're not exactly logical. Thus before you can even start using it, you have to teach yourself its naming conventions for organising files. The organisation of images within the file browser, or Projects panel, doesn't mirror the one on the computer rather, Aperture sorts images into projects, folders and albums that you sort within the program. We tried using it in the field, so to speak, when speed in sorting and editing was of the essence, and found that it rather let us down. ![]() However, now that we've had time to negotiate it ourselves, the outlook is a bit less rosy. Our first look of Aperture when we got a rather long demo at Photokina was positively glowing. Despite its attractive user interface, it takes some time to understand not only its organisational system, but also its terminology. The first thing you should know about Aperture is that it comes with a very big manual, and for good reason. ![]()
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