Aperture: An Idea For a History Browser
2006-12-27
If I am viewing an image in Aperture, how do I know how I got that image?
Aperture has no "reveal master" function, so although I can see the master just by pressing M, I cannot go directly to that master in its project. By looking at the filename in the inspector I can find all the images associated with it and paste that name into a filter and find them that way, but that is long-winded and incomplete.
What I really want is a history view added to the current two browser views (thumbnail and list). A history browser would look something like this:
The thumbnails for the current project or album are displayed vertically down the center of the browser, arranged in whatever order is currently selected. Horizontal lines could separate the image rows, but I am not sure that would add anything.
To the left of each thumbnail is a chain of ancestors. To the right is a tree of descendants. The tree extends vertically to show multiple descendants. Arrows point left to right to show descendency.
Metadata by default shows what each is, where it is, and when it was created. And there is a badge to show the masters. Masters created from other masters show the original master as an ancestor.
By clicking on a thumbnail you see the image in the viewer. There is a way of refocussing the history browser on a selected image so that its enclosing project or album is shown in the vertical strip.
Aperture has no "reveal master" function, so although I can see the master just by pressing M, I cannot go directly to that master in its project. By looking at the filename in the inspector I can find all the images associated with it and paste that name into a filter and find them that way, but that is long-winded and incomplete.
What I really want is a history view added to the current two browser views (thumbnail and list). A history browser would look something like this:
The thumbnails for the current project or album are displayed vertically down the center of the browser, arranged in whatever order is currently selected. Horizontal lines could separate the image rows, but I am not sure that would add anything.
To the left of each thumbnail is a chain of ancestors. To the right is a tree of descendants. The tree extends vertically to show multiple descendants. Arrows point left to right to show descendency.
Metadata by default shows what each is, where it is, and when it was created. And there is a badge to show the masters. Masters created from other masters show the original master as an ancestor.
By clicking on a thumbnail you see the image in the viewer. There is a way of refocussing the history browser on a selected image so that its enclosing project or album is shown in the vertical strip.
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