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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

Setting preview settings


There are a couple of ways you can export your edited images out of Aperture.

  • You can export them using the dedicated export function

  • You can drag-and-drop images into another application

  • Or you can access your images through the OS X media browser, which can be found in every open and save dialog box

We'll cover the dedicated export function in the next section Exporting versions, but first let's look at the other two options.

If you drag-and-drop an image out of Aperture, you will get a JPEG copy of your edited image. Aperture does this instantly, and you may be wondering just how it's able to do it so quickly. It actually uses the previews that Aperture creates when you import, and edits those preview images. You can control the quality of these exported preview images by going into Aperture's preferences. The same applies to the images accessed through OS X's system-wide media browser.

We briefly covered how to change the preview settings in the previous chapter, but...