How to import photos in to Aperture

*How to import your photographs into Aperture*
Before you can start organising your photos with keywords and custom searches based upon the year the photograph was taken or the camera that was used to take the photo, you need to actually get those photographs into the application. In this video I show you how to get photographs into Aperture starting with how to choose which ones to import into your Aperture application from your disk or memory card from the camera. It is too easy just to quickly put a tick in all of the checkboxes to get the photographs selected and hit Import Selected, but there are other things that you can do to make it a better import.

*Changing the settings when importing into Aperture*
There is already some metadata on each of the photographs that you take which is applied to the image by the camera. Aside from there being a file name there will be the file size and information about the camera. This camera information could include the details about the lens being used as well as the settings for the lens when the specific picture was taken. You might also have information embedded into the photograph about the GPS positioning of the camera when you took the photograph. This is especially the case if you are using your mobile phone to take your photos, but these days it can also be found on some cameras. If you want to have GPS on your photographs and you don't have GPS within the camera, you can use an application like GPS4CAM along with the application HoudahGeo. This is quite a neat trick and not difficult to do and you can do it with Android phones as well as the iPhone.

I think it is a good idea to change the name of the file for the photograph when you are bringing it into Aperture. This is an especially good idea if you are using cameras that use the same file naming convention as it would be quite easy to have pictures that have the same file name. I had this happen when I was using, first of all the Canon 400D and then later the Canon 600D. There are a number of different file naming choices that you can make and I prefer to have my files named by the date and time that they were taken.

*Adding keywords when importing photos into Aperture*
It is quite possible to add keywords to your photos when you import the photo into Aperture, but I suggest that you don't go overboard with adding keywords at this time. It is far better to use the Keywords HUD where you can be more sure about not adding keywords that are duplicates or similar to other keywords already added. If you are careful about the keywords that you add when using the import facilities in Aperture, then you can save yourself a little bit of time later.

I would suggest that you append this extra metatag information rather than replacing meta tag data as you don't really want to get rid of the meta tags that were put on the pictures by the camera. I would suggest that it is a good idea to add your name and maybe the name of your company along with copyright information, so that anybody copying your photographs from the website will also be copying this data. This could be very useful when taking a photo thief to court. You can put in your phone number and also your email address so that somebody using your photographs does not have the excuse of not being able to find out how to contact you in order to pay, or offer to pay.

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