Aperture 2 "compare" question

[Mandalay]

Hello. Just joined today. I am just trialling Aperture and cannot find the answer to what must be a simple issue.

When editing an image I want to compare the original of that image alongside it. The compare function only seems to allow me to select one of the other images in the project for comparison.

Please could someone tell me how to place the original side by side with a copy of it that I can edit?

Many thanks.

 

[dod]

don't know sorry, but here's a bump in case someone does

 

[natjag]

If you press M, or click on the button show master, (on my layout, just above the query box). you will get the master unaltered version. I don't think you can compare side by side.

 

[Mandalay]

I have now discovered the answer by posting on the Apple forum site for Aperture.

In case anyone needs to know this, the solution is as follows (lifted from the apple forum answers given to me and slightly edited):

Make a version of the image in question by hitting "alt + V". Then edit the "version image" side by side with the untoched original This will give the original and a version in the browser. The compare function can then be used in the normal way to view the two images side by side on the main screen.

Note that when you make a version of the original you don't actually make "copies" in the normal sense, you only create small text files telling Aperture how you want the original modified and displayed. Therefore you don't have to worry about wasting disk space.

If you then Command Click on the two versions, then press the F key, you'll see both versions side by side at full screen.. Hitting F again returns you to the previous view.

Hitting M as suggested by natjag above does show the Master but will not enable side by side viewing. The edit compare requirement seems to me to be so basic that it should be an easily accessible function automatically.

Anyway. Thanks for the input here.