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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

Tips for fixing chromatic aberration


Chromatic aberration is one of the most common image problems, and also one of the easiest to fix. Aperture has a special tool for fixing chromatic aberration, coincidentally called Chromatic Aberration.

Using it is actually fairly straightforward, so you may be wondering why it is featured here, but there are actually a few tricks that can make it a bit easier to work with when working on multiple images. What follows is a selection of tip and tricks for using the chromatic aberration tool:

  • Always zoom in to 1:1 when fixing chromatic aberration, as you can't see the results properly when zoomed out.

  • Chromatic aberration is always worst at the edges of the frame. When zooming in to adjust for it, always pan to the edge of the frame. A corner is even better.

  • Red/Cyan is more common, so always start with that first. This will more often than not remove the chromatic aberration from the shot.

  • Depending on the lenses you use regularly, you may have to use this...