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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

Mountain Lion and Gatekeeper


If you are running Aperture on Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) or later, you may run into an issue with Mountain Lion's security system called Gatekeeper, and Aperture plugins. If the plugin hasn't been updated to work with Gatekeeper, you may get an error when you run it, telling you that it is an unauthorized software. To fix this issue, you may need to disable Gatekeeper by performing the following steps:

  1. Go to your System Preferences by choosing it from the Apple menu, or by launching the System Preferences app from your Applications folder in the finder.

  2. Click on the Security & Privacy button.

  3. Click on the lock button to unlock the panel, and make changes.

  4. Enter your password.

  5. Under the section called Allow applications downloaded from, click on the button that says Anywhere. This should solve the problem, however, be aware that your computer could now potentially run malware. However, this is no different than how your computer would have behaved before Mountain...