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Mastering Apple Aperture

By : Thomas Fitzgerald
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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

Photoshop alternatives


If you can't afford Photoshop or simply don't want to use it, then there are a number of good alternatives in the market at the time of writing this book. They have their advantages and disadvantages. The biggest disadvantage for using software, other than Photoshop, is that Aperture will likely not support the native file formats of these applications. This unfortunately means that you will need to save a flattened version as a TIFF or JPEG, in order for it to be loaded back into Aperture, meaning you will lose any application-specific functions, or even just layers. You could always save a native file to a different location as a back up, but your workflow becomes quite disorganized in that case.

Having said that, there are some great applications out there at the moment, and most of them are relatively inexpensive. In the following pages, we will look at the details of two of the most popular third-party image editing applications in the market right now, and we...