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Mastering Apple Aperture

By : Thomas Fitzgerald
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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

Extended range Curves


One of the advantages of Aperture's Curves tool over those in other software is that it takes advantage of Aperture's 32-bit architecture and lets you work with values above 100 percent white. This means that if you have values that are clipped, you can use a Curves adjustment to bring the clipped areas back into the visible range. You can also use Curves as an alternative with the recover tool.

  1. To access the extended range Curves tool, add a Curves adjustment from the Add Adjustment pop-up menu, and from the Range pop-up menu choose Extended.

  2. Now you can see the normal range of the curve, which is the visual portion of the image, and also the Curves histogram will show any image data that is above 100 percent.

  3. If you want to bring this clipped image data back into the visible range, then the process is pretty simple. With a Curves adjustment applied to your image and the Extended range mode selected, drag the right-most point until the range of the curve completely encompasses...