TUAW Tip: Aperture keyboard shortcuts for scrolling through your library

One of the things I mentioned in my Aperture podcast that I love so much about this app is its plethora of features designed especially to increase efficiency for power users and pro photographers. This tip centers around Aperture's keyboard shortcuts that allow for some very useful navigation and scrolling of the library browser, which is the pane that displays thumbnails of all the images in the currently selected album, project or folder. Instead of just explaining the shortcuts or giving you a screenshot, however, I thought I would go one step further and put together a short demo video of the shortcuts and the browser in action, additionally pointing out the small shuttle control on the right that helps detail just how quickly you're scrolling. It isn't anything fancy, but it should give you an idea of just how cool and actually useful this feature is.

For those who want the actual keyboard shortcuts, they are: J, K and L to scroll up, stop and scroll down, respectively.

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David Chartier

#2: I don't have Aperture in front of me right now, but I believe under the Help menu is a Keyboard Shortcuts option that displays a very, very thorough PDF of all of Aperture's shortcuts. If it exists, it might be in there, otherwise try the more general User Manual also available under that menu.

July 01 2007 at 7:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dion O'Neill

I've been using Aperture for a while now and all of the quick shortcuts make it easy to get a lot done quickly. My only gripe, which I'd love someone to tell me a way to do it, is with entering captions.

I can't find any keyboard way to move to the next photo and keep focus in the Caption field of the metadata pane. In iPhoto there's a Command-bracket (or something!) that I used all the time but with Aperture I find I have to use the mouse and click on the next Arrow.

I've tried every obvious key combo to see if I can find anything that would do it, so If anyone has a way around this please let me know !

July 01 2007 at 7:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sam

and what exactly has this to do with the iphone??

July 01 2007 at 5:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply