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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

Warming up and cooling down


Now that we have learned how to use Curves to adjust brightness and contrast, let's have a look at how to use Curves to adjust colors in an image. The principle is basically the same, except you are adjusting the individual channels instead of the overall brightness.

To select a channel, choose the channel from the channel pop-up at the top of the Curves adjustment and select the channel you want to adjust.

Adding warmth to an image

To warm up an image follow these simple steps. You can control the amount of warmth by the distance you move the points on the curve.

  1. Start by adding a Curves adjustment. From the Channel pop-up menu, and then choose the Red channel.

  2. Create a point in the middle of the graph for the red channel. Drag this up a little. Don't go too far or the effect will be overpowering.

  3. Now switch to the Blue channel, add a point in the center of the curve, and drag this point down as shown in the following:

Your image should now be nicely warmed up. The...