Any gurus with Aperture??

[Buffalo]

Just bought Aperture and trying to sort my photos into it's file structure.

1) I have imported all my folders from 'Pictures' so that now they do not appear as individual files in finder, but all come within Aperture. That is ok, but how do import individual pictures again to CDs etc to burn for other people. I seem to have found an export option, but it exports as an aperture project. I want to be able to just export .jpegs (etc) straight to disc.

2) When i imported the photos originally i kept the original file structure. I now want to alter this slightly. If i move an album from an existing project to a new project, it only seems to move the referred pictures, the originals (masters) stay in the old project root. If i move the masters out of the original project root i have to go into my new project root and find all of the pictures again and assign them manually to an album. There must be an easier way of doing it than this? It can get very confusing when the project has many photos in to find the ones i am after.

Thanks in advance!

~PHIL

[Andy M]

1) File -> File Export-> Export Version...

2) I'm not sure I understand?

[Buffalo]

Hmmm...

Ok:

I have a project, and inside are two albums, each with photos in. I now want to move the photos out of the two old albums in to say, three new albums in a new project; i.e. that i want to split up the photos contained in the old albums in a different way. I want the new project to contain the masters and the new albums to reference the new master files. The old master/album files i want to delete.

What is the most logical way to do this..?

Edited by Buffalo on Saturday 30th June 11:18

[Andy M]

Create the new project and albums, drag the files from the old project into the new. Move these files into each of the new albums.

Go back to old project, press Apple key and delete key at the same time.

Apologies if I'm barking up the wrong tree - have a fuzzy head this morning

[Buffalo]

No you're doing ok!

This was the way i was doing it, but i found it quite hard to find the photos i was looking for in the new project and make sure i moved them all to the new album. However, i have just realised that the files were being sorted by date, not name, which i think was making it harder for me to find them in the order i expected them to be in. I forget how the Mac works sometimes...

I'll try re-ordering the file lists by name and have another go.

I think a need a beer now! Been sat in front of this screen for 4 hours without even realising it!