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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

Exporting to Facebook and Flickr


If you are a social media user, you may use one or both of these two popular networks. Aperture has built-in sharing options for both of these services. You can share your images directly to Flickr and Facebook from the share menu in the Aperture toolbar. This allows you to create a new album (or "Photo Set", to use Flickr's terminology) and set the size of the images you want to export, as well as set some privacy options.

However, there are a few issues with using these sharing functions within Aperture. For a start, the options are very limited. You only have limited control over how images are scaled, and you cannot add a watermark. On Facebook, you can't send media to a Facebook page. But if you're using Facebook as a photographer, you are probably using a Facebook page rather than your personal profile. On Flickr, you can't add images to groups during the upload process, and you can't add additional metadata other than what you already have included...