Mastering Apple Aperture
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Mastering Apple Aperture

Thomas Fitzgerald

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Mastering Apple Aperture

Thomas Fitzgerald

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Apple Aperture is one of the leading photo editing software packages available in todays market. It provides you with all the tools to organize, browse, and perfect your images, so you can make every shot your best shot.

Mastering Apple Aperture aims to teach you the skills and knowledge necessary to become a master of the Apple Aperture software. It will build upon your existing core skills and show you new and advanced ways to get things done in Apples powerful photography software.

Mastering Apple Aperture starts by showing you the most simple and efficient ways to import and organize your images. It then takes you through the techniques for processing photos before moving on to cover advanced topics like working with tethered shooting, multiple libraries, curves, and metadata.

You will discover how to edit images in Aperture and will gain complete mastery over processing images. You will also explore ways of extending Aperture through the use of plugins and third-party software. This book concludes with tips and tricks for the best ways to output images from Aperture, whether for print or for screen.

Approach

This is a practical, step-by-step guide that aims at taking your understanding of Aperture from novice to master.

Who this book is for

This book is written for photographers who have an understanding of digital photography and who have a basic level of familiarity with Apples Aperture software. It is assumed that you have used Aperture and are familiar with the basics of the software.

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Year
2013
ISBN
9781849693561
Edition
1

Mastering Apple Aperture


Table of Contents

Mastering Apple Aperture
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why Subscribe?
Free Access for Packt account holders
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Downloading the color images of this book
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Advanced Importing and Organizing
A closer look at the import dialog
Managed versus Referenced
Converting between referenced and managed
Adding keywords while importing
Importing images to an album
Creating presets for your camera
Real world examples
Making Aperture's library work for you
Projects, folders, and albums
Root level versus project level
Organizing your library
One-shoot-at-a-time approach
Casual shooting approach
Creating project templates
Merging and splitting projects
Managing multiple libraries
Switching libraries
Exporting a project as a library
Importing a library
Library troubleshooting
Managing RAW + JPEG
Working with in-camera black and white images
Shooting tethered
Requirements for tethered shooting
Starting a session
A tethered shoot
Summary
2. Advanced Adjustments
Understanding Aperture's adjustment tree
RAW versus RGB
Demosaicing
Linear gamma
RGB adjustments
Working on RAW data versus RGB data
Adding default adjustments
Multiple adjustments
Brushes-tips and tricks
Adding brushes to an adjustment
Painting with brushes
Editing brush masks outside of Aperture
Editing the brush masks
Cloning and healing
Using the retouch tool
Highlights and Shadows tool
Using the Highlights and Shadows tool
Saving, editing, and managing effect presets
Saving an adjustment recipe as an effect preset
Sharpening
Sharpening in the RAW Fine Tuning Brick
Edge sharpening
Understanding how it works
Be careful not to oversharpen
Noise reduction
Chroma versus luminance noise
Noise reduction options in RAW fine tuning
Getting the best noise reduction results in Aperture
Summary
3. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Curves
Curves basics
Referring to the tones in an image
Putting the Curves in the Curves adjustment
Controlling contrast and brightness with Curves
Controlling brightness with Curves
Contrast and the S-Curve
The difference between contrast with Curves and the contrast slider
Creating a high-key and low-key look
Warming up and cooling down
Adding warmth to an image
Cooling down an image
Tinting shadows and highlights with Curves
Tinting shadows
Tinting highlights
Faded Shadows and Highlights
Using the eyedropper and automatic modes
Using the eyedroppers
Using the automatic adjustments
Extended range Curves
Multiple Curves adjustments
Curves adjustment versus Levels adjustment
Real world examples
Real world example – darkening skies
Real world example – vignettes
Real world example – controlling highlights
Summary
4. Aperture in Action
Controlling clipped highlights
Step 1
Real world example
Step 2
Step 3
Real world example
Finishing touches
Fixing blown out skies
Real world example
Finishing touches
Removing objects from a scene
Fixing dust spots on multiple images
Tips for fixing chromatic aberration
Fixing purple fringing
Real world example
Finishing touches
Creating fake duotones
Fixing scanned negatives
Summary
5. Extending Aperture
When and why you need to go outside Aperture
What Aperture does when you use a plugin
Mountain Lion and Gatekeeper
Where to find plugins
Recommended plugins
PTLens
Silver Efex Pro
A quick tour of Silver Efex Pro
Dfine
Honorable mentions
Color Efex Pro
Photomatix
Working with external editors
Setting external editors preferences
Working with Photoshop
A quick way to create panoramas in Photoshop
Photoshop alternatives
Pixelmator
Key advantages
Disadvantages
Acorn
Key advantages
Disadvantages
Honourable mention – Photoshop Elements
Working with third-party RAW converters
Catapult
Using Catapult
Working with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Setting up Lightroom and finder
Summary
6. Exporting and Outputting to the Web
Setting preview settings
Using OS X media browser
Exporting versions
Setting export presets
Filename and folder templates
Blogging from Aperture – the easy way
What is wrong with this method
Blogging from Aperture – the proper way
Export plugins
TwitExport
BorderFX
500-Wide
iStockPhoto Uploader
PhotoShelter Uploader
Exporting to Facebook and Flickr
Managing Facebook
Managing Flickr
A better option for Flickr
FlickrExport
Sharing with Photo Stream
Creating a quick iPad Portfolio with Photo Stream
Summary
7. Making Metadata Work for You
Why good metadata is important
Aperture's Info tab
Metadata View templates
Name Only
Caption Only
Large Caption
EXIF Info
IPTC Core
Creating your own templates
Create a preset to view all EXIF information
Creating metadata templates
Different ways of entering keywords
Entering keywords from the Info tab
Using the keyword HUD
The Keyword Control Bar
Lift and Stamp keywords
Entering captions and titles quickly
Using TextExpander to speed up data entry
TextExpander
Entering long strings of text for captions
Keyword sets
Using OS X's built-in autocomplete
Batch changing metadata
Adding custom metadata
Some examples of when to use custom metadata
Searching and smart folders
The search HUD
Smart albums
Summary
8. Getting Better Prints from Aperture
Calibrating your display
Choosing a display calibrator
Calibrating your screen
Calibrate often
The limitations of calibration
Onscreen Proofing
The print dialog
Show all the options
Print resolution
Print sharpening
Creating print presets
Issues to be aware of when creating print presets
Printing and saving to PDF
Creating a digital contact sheet to e-mail to clients
Printing to a JPEG file
Using the book tool for elaborate print layouts
Printing your page
Ordering prints using Apple's print service
Ordering prints from a third-party service
Summary
Index

Mastering Apple Aperture

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