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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

Blogging from Aperture – the proper way


To best present your images on your website, you should export your images from Aperture in the settings that best suit your website. To start with, you should determine what size you want your images to be and have Aperture scale those images to the correct size. This can either be the size you want them to appear on your webpage, or if you want to have them opening large in a light box on your site, then enter the size you want them to appear there. Also, remember that if you are making your website HiDPI or Retina Display compliant, so that they are compatible with Apple's retina displays on their newer laptops or the iPad and iPhone, you need to double the size of your images (although with retina resolution images you may be able to get away with a higher compression).

Here are the steps to take for maximizing quality when blogging from Aperture:

  1. Start by creating an image export template for your blog. Set the size as discussed before to the size...