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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

Controlling contrast and brightness with Curves


Controlling brightness and contrast is the most basic thing that you can do with Curves. You're probably thinking why would you want to do this when you have a perfectly good brightness and a contrast slider in the exposure adjustment?

There are a couple of reasons. First of all, the sliders in the exposure brick behave differently than the Curves tool. Also, you may want to brush a brightness adjustment in at some point and you can't brush the exposure adjustment in, so it's useful to know how to do it with Curves. Let's start with brightness as it's the easiest.

Controlling brightness with Curves

Start by adding a Curves adjustment from the Add Adjustment pop-up menu. Add a point in the center of the curve and then carry out the following steps:

  1. To increase the brightness in the image drag the point up, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. To decrease the brightness drag the point down, as shown in the following screenshot:

Note

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