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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

The print dialog


When you print to a connected printer in Aperture, you will first go to the Aperture print dialog. This is a complex window that shows lots of options and can be a bit daunting at times. There are also some things that don't quite work the way you would expect. We will look at these in the following section, and you will learn to avoid some common problems.

The print dialog is made up of three main panes. On the right, you have the main preview area. This is where you can see what your printed page will look like, with a visual representation of your pages' margins, any text that will be printed with the image, and if you have more than one image on the page, you can see the layout here too. When you have your page set up with margins or multiple images in Aperture, the image you see is actually a frame based on the size you set in the controls (more on this in a minute). You can control the size of this frame and the scale of the image separately, and you can do this directly...