In previous versions of Aperture you had 2 big import option buttons: Import All and Import Selected. This allowed you to quickly and easily import the whole memory card or just (most likely) the last few shots. This works great: I find it hard to imagine myself not wanting to do one of those actions.

Aperture 3 changes things. You now tell Aperture what images to import by checking them much as you would if you were importing video from a non-tape-based video camera in iMovie. There are Check All and Uncheck All buttons and the sole import button is Import Checked. At first I though that this would be terrible if I wanted to import just the last 50 images shot when I have 50 images on a card (checking/unchecking 50 items!) but I found a shortcut today that I wanted to share.

Aperture will toggle the checked status of all selected images when you check/uncheck any selected image. This makes it very easy to select only the very specific images you may want – especially if they’re noncontiguous. Let’s say that you want to select the last 50 of 100 images. Easy. Uncheck All, select from image 51-100 and check any one of those images’ checkbox. Viola all 50 are ready for import!

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