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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

Adding custom metadata


Aperture has another powerful metadata tool in its arsenal, and that is the ability to create custom metadata. With this function you can create your own metadata fields and they can be used for anything you choose.

There are a couple of ways to add a custom field. From the info panel, click on the cog menu and choose Manage custom fields. This will bring up the custom field editor. Here you can create new custom fields as shown in the following screenshot. The problem is, once you create them, they won't actually show up in the Metadata View until you add them to a view preset.

The better way to get to the editor is to open the view editor by choosing Edit from the view preset drop-down on the info panel. When the Metadata View editor is open you can choose Manage custom fields from the cog menu at the bottom of the window. You can now enter as many fields as you want. Once you are finished doing it, click on OK to close the custom fields sheet. Now all you have to...