Selecting images is a fundamental task in Aperture. Knowing the many ways you can select images can help increase your productivity and satisfaction while working with your images.
You can select one or several of the images in the Browser to work with them or to view them in the Viewer. Aperture identifies the images you’ve selected by displaying them with a white border. When you select a group of images, the actively selected image, called the primary selection, appears with a thick white border and the rest of the selected images appear with thin white borders.

Press an arrow key to move left, right, up, or down.
Use the scroll bar to scroll through the images in the Browser, then click the image you want to view.
Choose Window > Show Control Bar to display the control bar. In the control bar, click the Move Selection Left or Move Selection Right button.

Aperture provides fast and efficient ways of selecting images, depending on your work style and preferences.
You can select images in the following ways.
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Select a single image |
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Select a range of images |
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Select an image among selected images |
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Select an image in a stack |
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Select nonadjacent images |
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Slide a selection |
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Select the next stack |
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Select or set a compare image |
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Deselect the compare image |
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Select a different compare image |
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Select all images in the Browser |
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Select only the primary image, deselecting all others |
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Deselect all images in the Browser |
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Deselect the current selection and select all unselected images |
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