Use gestures with Aperture

If your computer has a Multi-Touch trackpad or a Magic Mouse, you can use gestures when working with Aperture. For example, when working with photos in the Browser, you can use the rotate gesture to rotate images and the swipe gesture to select a different photo. In addition to the standard Multi-Touch trackpad gestures used with Mac portable computers, you can use Multi-Touch gestures with the following Aperture features.

Note:  To use the following gestures, you must have Aperture 3.3.2 or later and OS X Mountain Lion v10.8 or later.

Feature

Multi-Touch trackpad gestures

Browser in grid view

  • Use the pinch gesture to change the size of thumbnails in the Browser.

  • Use the rotate gesture to rotate the photo beneath the pointer.

  • Use the three-finger swipe gesture to select another photo when “Swipe with three fingers” is selected in the “Swipe between pages” pop-up menu in the More Gestures pane of Trackpad preferences.

    For more information about the swipe gesture, see Help Center.

Browser in list view

  • Use the pinch gesture to change the size of thumbnails in the Browser.

  • Use the three-finger swipe gesture to select another photo when “Swipe with three fingers” is selected in the “Swipe between pages” pop-up menu in the More Gestures pane of Trackpad preferences.

    For more information about the swipe gesture, see Help Center.

Browser in filmstrip view (Split View layout) and filmstrip in full-screen view (Viewer mode)

  • Use the pinch gesture to change the size of thumbnails in the Browser or the filmstrip.

  • Use the rotate gesture to rotate the image beneath the pointer.

  • Use the three-finger swipe gesture to select another photo when “Swipe with three fingers” is selected in the “Swipe between pages” pop-up menu in the More Gestures pane of Trackpad preferences.

    For more information about the swipe gesture, see Help Center.

Viewer and full-screen view (Viewer mode)

  • Use the pinch gesture to zoom in to or out of the photo, or double-tap with two fingers to zoom in to a specific part of the photo.

  • Use the rotate gesture to rotate the photo beneath the pointer.

  • Use the swipe gesture to select a different photo when “Scroll to navigate photos in the Viewer” is selected in the General pane of the Preferences window.

    For more information about the General pane of the Preferences window, see General preferences. For more information about the swipe gesture, see Help Center.

Faces

  • Use the pinch gesture to change the size of the snapshots.

Places

  • Use two-finger scrolling to zoom in to or out of the map.

Light Table

  • Use the pinch gesture to zoom in to or out of the Light Table or to change the size of the photo beneath the pointer.

Book Layout Editor

  • Use the pinch gesture to zoom in to or out of the selected page or resize the object beneath the pointer on the page. (The Edit Layout button must be selected to resize objects on the page.)

  • Use the rotate gesture to rotate objects. You can also hold down the Shift key as you use the rotate gesture to restrict rotation to 15-degree increments.

  • Use the swipe gesture to change pages.

Slideshows

  • Use the swipe gesture to display the next or previous slide during a slideshow.

Loupe tool

  • Use the pinch gesture to change the Loupe size. (As with previous versions of Aperture, you can also use the scroll gesture to change the Loupe magnification.)

Crop tool

  • Use the pinch gesture to modify an existing crop selection and change its size.

Straighten tool

  • Use the rotate gesture to change the amount of image rotation.

Print dialog (Preview area)

  • Use the pinch gesture to zoom in to or out of the photo displayed in the Preview area of the Print dialog.

For more information about working with gestures, see Help Center.