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.)
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.
Create a new webpage album
When you create a web gallery from a selection of photos, Aperture creates as many webpages as necessary to hold all of the selected photos. You can also create an empty webpage album and then drag photos into the album.
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Do one of the following:
To create a new webpage album from selected photos: In the Browser, select the photos you want to place on your web gallery pages, or select an item in the Library inspector.
To create a new, empty webpage album: Make sure no photos are selected, and continue to the next step.
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Do one of the following:
Choose File > New > Web Page.
Control-click in the Library inspector, and choose New > Web Page from the shortcut menu.
Choose Web Page from the New pop-up menu in the toolbar.
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In the dialog that appears, give your webpage album a name, select a theme, and click Choose Theme.
Note: If you’re creating a new webpage album from a photo selection, make sure the “Add selected items to new web page” checkbox is selected.
The new webpage album appears in the Library inspector. If you created the webpage album from selected photos, the photos appear in the Webpage Editor.
If you created an empty webpage album, you can add photos to it by dragging photos from the Browser or from other items selected in the Library inspector.
Create a Smart Web Page Album of your photos
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Do one of the following:
Choose File > New > Smart Web Page.
Control-click in the Library inspector, and choose New > Smart Web Site from the shortcut menu.
Enter a name for the new Smart Web Page Album in the Library inspector.
If necessary, click the Smart Settings HUD button
to the right of the Smart Web Page Album name to show the Smart Settings HUD.
In the Smart Settings HUD, specify the search criteria for the Smart Web Page Album.
The Smart Web Page Album is created and filled with the photos that meet the search criteria.
If you change the search criteria, the contents of the Smart Web Page Album change. For more information, see Collect photos in a new Smart Album.
Create a new web journal album
The easiest way to create a web journal is to select photos you want to appear in the web journal and create an album. Aperture creates a web journal album that contains the photos you selected, and the Webpage Editor appears. The Browser contains the selected photos, which you can then manually place on the webpages.
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Do one of the following:
To create a new web journal album from selected photos: In the Browser, select the photos you want in your web journal, or select an item in the Library inspector.
To create a new, empty web journal album: Make sure no photos are selected, and continue to the next step.
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Do one of the following:
Choose File > New > Web Journal.
Control-click in the Library inspector, and choose New > Web Journal from the shortcut menu.
Choose Web Journal from the New pop-up menu in the toolbar.
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In the dialog that appears, give your web journal album a name, select a theme, and click Choose Theme.
Note: If you’re creating a new web journal album from a photo selection, make sure the “Add selected items to new web journal” checkbox is selected.
The new web journal album appears in the Library inspector, and the Webpage Editor appears. If you created the web journal album from a photo selection, the photos appear in the Browser, and you can drag photos to your web journal pages in the Webpage Editor. If you created an empty web journal album, you can drag photos into it from other items selected in the Library inspector. To make changes to the web journal pages, you use the controls in the Webpage Editor.