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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 default adjustments


As noted earlier, the RAW Fine-Tuning adjustment is hidden by default, even though it's technically applied to all RAW images. You can change this behavior and have it displayed by default very easily. In fact, if you use any adjustment regularly that isn't part of the default set, you can add it to the default set very easily. Once you do, any adjustment, that you add will appear on every image, even if you don't use them.

To add an adjustment to the default set, simply add the adjustment to an image, and then from the little pop-up menu on the adjustment brick, choose Add to default set.

Be aware that this isn't actually adding the adjustment to every image, but merely adding the options to your display, so that you don't have to go to the menu and add that particular adjustment each time.

Personally, I have the following adjustments enabled all the time:

  • RAW Fine Tuning

  • Chromatic Aberration

  • Curves