Delete to Remove Bricks in Aperture 3
Since Aperture 3 allows you to add multiple instances of an adjustment brick in order to allow for multiple-instances of that effect to be brushed on or off of your images, it’s handy that it also offers a s system of removing those adjustment bricks with literally just a click.
But First We Add
The first thing you’ll want to do to remove a brick is to have a brick to remove, naturally so in this example we’ll add a new Add Enhance adjustment brick by selecting it from the dropdown Action menu (the one that looks like a gear).
Make An Adjustment
Again, for this example we’ll go overboard on this Enhance adjustment, throwing our image into the nether regions of poorly-edited images.
We could simply de-select the second Enhance setting and all the changes would be deactivated, or we could click the Reset button (which looks like a return arrow) but that still leaves a useless brick around.
Add A Step
The solution is to simply click on the unwanted brick (and it will turn grey) and then hit the Delete key. Whoosh, adjustment removed.
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Author: David Schloss
David Schloss is the director of the Mac Create Network and the Aperture Users Network, a professional photographer, writer, editor and photographic educator who specializes adventure sports, travel and lifestyle photography. Schloss is the author of the books Blue Pixel Personal Photo Coach: Digital Photography Tips from the Trenches and Blue Pixel Guide to Travel Photography: Perfect Photos Every Time. Schloss is the former Technical Editor for Photo District News, a position he held for six years.
