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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

Brushes-tips and tricks


Brushes are one of Aperture's most powerful features. Brushes are thought of as being Aperture's way of performing selective adjustments, but a better way to think of them is as a way to mask individual adjustments. As one can have a great number of adjustments, each of these adjustments can be masked so that they only apply to a portion of your image.

You can add a brush mask for almost any adjustment, with the exception of the RAW Fine Tuning brick and the Exposure brick. See the following steps:

Adding brushes to an adjustment

To add brushes to an adjustment we need to carry out the following steps:

  1. From any adjustment brick go to the pop-up menu.

  2. If you want to apply brushes to a selective area choose Brush <Adjustment> in (where Adjustment will be the name of the particular adjustment).

  3. If you want to apply an adjustment to most of the image but want a small area without the adjustment applied choose Brush Adjustments Away. Or to remove a brush completely, and...