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Mastering Apple Aperture

By : Thomas Fitzgerald
Book Image

Mastering Apple Aperture

By: Thomas Fitzgerald

Overview of this book

Apple Aperture is one of the leading photo editing software packages available in today's 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 Apple's 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.  
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering Apple Aperture
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding Aperture's adjustment tree


If you want to gain complete mastery over processing images in Aperture, you need to have an understanding of Aperture's adjustment tree. If you know how the software thinks about an image and how it works internally, you will be empowered to make better decisions and work more efficiently within the software. You may be concerned that some of this information is too technical, or that not that important to know, but a little knowledge of the foundation of digital imaging will make you a much better Aperture user. Before we look at Aperture's way of thinking, we first need to look at some RAW basics.

Note

Much of this chapter deals primarily with RAW images. It assumes that you are working with RAW. If you are shooting JPEG, some of the information here may still be of use, but to get the most out of it you really need to be shooting in RAW.

RAW versus RGB

The first thing that you need to grasp is that, as with any RAW processing software, there are two...