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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

Creating a quick iPad Portfolio with Photo Stream


If you are an iPad owner, one of the things you may use it for is showing off your photos. It is a very handy tool to have to show prospective clients (or helpless family and friends!). One of the things many photographers like to do is keep their Portfolio on their iPad. One way to do this is to create a Portfolio album in Aperture and then sync it through iTunes to your iPad. But what if your Aperture library is not on the computer you sync your iPad with? What if you don't sync your iPad to your computer at all? This is where Photo Stream comes into play.

You can simply create a new Portfolio Photo Stream and this will sync via iCloud to your iPad (and any other devices that you have). Here's what to do in the following steps:

  1. Select the photos you want to include in your Portfolio. It is probably easier if you create a root-level album for your Portfolio within your library first.

  2. With your photos selected, press the share button on the...