The key commands are Option-V or Option-G.

Click on the Preset drop down menu.

This will bring up the Adjustment Preset window where you can delete, save, and organize your presets.

Deleting is easy: Select>Delete.

Selecting New Preset Group from the drop down menu will create a menu where you can group similar presets together. For instance, Apple provides a few of these like the Color menu.

You can also import presets when you’ve downloaded or saved them from another user or machine.

To export select the preset or group then select export. One lesson I learned is that you could create problems by moving the default groups into new group. I won’t go into details, but trust me, don’t do it.

To organize, drag the preset to the desired position or into a group.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/aperture/aperturepresets.html

http://photo.rwboyer.com/2010/08/25/aperture-3-free-hdr-preset/

From the Import Settings dropdown in the Import dialog box, select Actions.

Every Mac comes with AppleScript Editor, a free program to write Applescripts. This is located in the Utilities folder of the Applications folder in the Finder.

Type into the top of AppleScript Editor or paste this in, replacing the information inside the quotations after address: with your phone number. The @mms.att.net (and domain is used for all iPhones on AT&T so put in your phone number followed by @mms.att.net. If your phone number were 212-555-12112 then you’d use 2125551212@mms.att.net.

You can find a list of different company’s email address formats here.

tell application "Mail"
    set theNewMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:"Your Aperture Import is Complete", content:"Your import has completed", visible:true}
    tell theNewMessage
        make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {address:"845XXXXXXX@mms.att.net"}
        send
    end tell
end tell

Save your script as a Script format somewhere you’ll be able to find it, like your Documents folder.

Jump back to Aperture and select the Choose… button.

Navigate to your script and click OK.

Until you clear the script by pressing the Clear button in the Actions setting you’ll receive a text message whenever Aperture is done with an import.

The first step is to tag something to Add to Favorites via the Contextual Menu. (Right-Click on the item to bring it up.)

From the Filter in the Library, select Favorite Items by Clicking and holding on the magnifying glass.

The Library will display with just the Favorites.

To un-favorite something just Right-Click again and Remove From Favorites.

http://www.apertureexpert.com/user-tips/2010/8/20/stacking-time-saver.html

Gather up the images that you want to use for your iPad book and select Book from the New button on the toolbar or select File>New>Book.

From the book dialog box select Custom from the Book Type menu.

Give this book a name. iPad Book isn’t really creative, but it’ll do in this example.

The iPad uses a 4:3 aspect ratio, so set up your book with a height and width to match that. (I selected 8×6 because that prints on 8.5×11 while 9×12 does not.) Since there are no printed edges to the iPad, Margins can be set to 0.

Now the iPad theme is set up, so you can create more books using the same theme.

Aperture will automatically create a layout that optimizes the iPad’s size.

You can change a page’s layout by Clicking the Arrow next to it and selecting another page, or using the layout tools to create your own.

Simply drag-and-drop photos onto your pages.

Examine your book to see if it looks the way you’d like.

The trick to this tip is to "print" your book by selecting Print Book… from the File menu. But there’s a super-cool step you can take to auto-load the page into iTunes.

To print a PDF in almost any Mac application, select the PDF dropdown menu. Normally you’d just save the file as a PDF somewhere and then import it into iTunes.

From the PDF menu, select the Edit Menu… option.

The Edit PDF Menu dialog allows you to add PDF workflows right to your print workflow. You can load any Automator script here as well as an AppleScript or Pearl script, etc. You won’t need to do any scripting for this trick though.

You can also add any application that supports PDF, as iTunes now does.

Once you’ve pointed the Edit PDF Menu at iTunes it will appear in the drop down menu. Select iTunes as your option.

Aperture will "print" the book to iTunes when you hit the Print button.

In the Library menu, select Books

Your PDF appears under the Books tab, but it’s listed as Unknown Artist. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s nice to customize this. Click on your book and press Command-I to bring up the Info dialog box.

Under the INfo tab you can enter your information and some comments. Leave the info blank that relates to Album and other fields for music.

Providing you’ve installed the free iBooks application, when you connect your iPad your book will automatically sync with your iPad. Launch the iBooks application on the iPad and view your creation, complete with page swiping and image zooming.