Book Image

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

Using the book tool for elaborate print layouts


While the print dialog in Aperture contains lots of options for creating layouts for your prints, there are limitations as to what it can do. You have little control over adding text, and using multiple images on the page is limited and rigid. If you want to do something more creative, you don't actually have to leave the software to do it. That is because Aperture actually contains a pretty sophisticated page layout module. This powerful tool is hiding under the guise of the book layout module.

You are probably already familiar with Aperture's book module, as it is one of the key features of the software. Within Aperture, you have the ability to order printed photo books directly from Apple. To do this, the software contains a dedicated module for creating and laying out books. You can choose from a number of templates and add your images to the book. You can then upload this to Apple's servers and order a physical printed book. The process...