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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 covered numerous tips and advices for getting better prints from Aperture. Hopefully, by now, you have a good grasp of what is possible to get out of Aperture by printing or by ordering prints. As we have covered, Aperture's print dialog is surprisingly complex, and there are a few traps that can trip you up if you are not careful.

We also looked at how to create virtual prints by using the print dialog to print to a PDF file. We looked at how this can be useful when creating contact sheets to e-mail to clients. We also looked at how to use Aperture's powerful hidden page layout engine that is hidden in the book module, to create more advanced print layouts, and we looked at ordering prints from either Apple's print service, or from a third-party service.

If you have been reading through this book from start to finish, you should now have a better understanding of the whole Aperture workflow. While this book didn't cover every button and menu item, we looked at...