As we have seen in the previous chapters, Aperture is a very powerful piece of software. You can accomplish quite a lot within the application, but it does have its limits. The tools inside Aperture are generally designed for making broad edits to your image, and while you can selectively edit with brushes, if you need to get into precise pixel-level manipulations, you just can't do it within Aperture. So, for example, while we previously looked at how good Aperture's cloning and healing tool is, there are also some limits as to what you can achieve, so for complex edits you may need to use an application, such as Photoshop. There are also some important image correction techniques that Aperture can't do either, or is not very good at. For example, Aperture has no tools for lens distortion correction. For this, you will have to use a plugin. Aperture's noise reduction functionality is also pretty weak compared to its competitors, but there are...
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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.
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering Apple Aperture
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Advanced Importing and Organizing
Advanced Adjustments
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Curves
Aperture in Action
Extending Aperture
Exporting and Outputting to the Web
Making Metadata Work for You
Getting Better Prints from Aperture
Index
Customer Reviews