Aperture Virgin

Last night I downloaded the trial version of Aperture to test out and see what it is all about. For those of you in the dark, Aperture is Apple’s ‘Pro’ photo application, consider Aperture to be what Final Cut Pro is to iMovies for iPhoto. It installed fine and everything looks great, but I am totally at a loss now on how to manage my library. Before, iPhoto would take care of everything for me, and I was never worried about storage. Just plug in the card reader, import the photo’s and create some albums. Obviously, being a Pro application, Aperture has some very clever ideas and tricks about the storage and management of files, so much, so I’m completely at a loss. On the startup I decided to import my iPhoto library to give me something to play with. By clicking the wrong button I imported the files into the Aperture library, so in essence I have two copies of every photo. But during the import, everything was put into 'rolls’ which is iPhoto’s way. This works very well in iPhoto, but you don’t get to see it much, it all happens like magic. However, when I looked into these roles, there is everything in there, even the modified pictures. Then when looking into the files and the Aperture project folders everything has an iPhoto slant on things. All files are tagged as iPhoto, the folder structure of Aperture is labelled iPhoto library and everything is stuck in some 250 odd project files created from the roll import thing. What do I do, I want a nice clean crisp structure for everything, but where do I go with the Project files, the Album files and the Folders that can be created within Aperture. Has anyone got some good tips on file management for Aperture, or a few rules for the importing and storing of photo’s?