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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

Summary


In this chapter, we took a detailed look at making advanced adjustments in Aperture. We started by looking at the fundamentals of how a RAW file works, what it is, and how it's decoded in Aperture. We looked at the differences between RAW data and RGB data. We covered how to set up your adjustment panel to include your most commonly used adjustments by default. We looked at some advanced topics, such as how to use brushes, and how to edit brushes outside of Aperture. We also covered the important subject of sharpening and noise reduction, and you learned some valuable tips on using different kinds of sharpening.

Hopefully, after reading this chapter, you will have the knowledge to be able to tackle most tasks in Aperture. You've been given a good grounding in the theory behind the adjustments, so you will be better able to make your own decisions. Of course, one of the great features of Aperture is that there are many different ways to accomplish the same task. You should now have...