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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

Setting export presets


As we learned in the previous section, Aperture uses a number of templates to control the export process. You can easily edit existing templates or create your own new ones. The most important one to get to grips with is of course the main Export Preset. This controls the size and format of your exported images and allows you to set a watermark too. There are two ways to access the template editor for export presets.

  • You can access it by exporting an image, and from the Export Preset pop-up menu you can choose edit. This will bring you to the export preset editor window.

  • From the Aperture menu choose Presets | Image Exports.

Once you have opened the export presets window, you are greeted with a two-pane interface. The pane on the left contains a list of existing presets, and the pane on the right contains all the options for that preset.

  • To edit an existing preset, select the preset from the column on the right and start editing the parameters.

  • If you want to make a new...