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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

Creating fake duotones


One of the features notably lacking from Aperture's toolset is a duotone adjustment. A duotone is a halftone printing process made using two inks, usually black and another color. In the digital darkroom, a similar effect is created by tinting the shadows with one color and the highlights with another. While not technically a duotone, this is often a creative choice for photographers looking to create a stylized image. Many applications have a tool specifically for this technique included, but unfortunately Aperture doesn't. You can create sepia images easily enough, but there's no faux duotone effect included in the default toolset. Luckily, you can achieve similar results fairly easily by combining a few different adjustments as shown in the following steps:

  1. In the Enhance adjustment, set the Saturation slider of your image to zero.

  2. Add a second Enhance adjustment, by choosing Add New Enhance Adjustment from the cog pop-up menu.

  3. Expand the Tint controls if they are...