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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

Using OS X media browser


In every open and save dialog box in OS X there is a special media browser that can be accessed by going to the bottom of the side bar. If you scroll down you will see a section for photos and for videos. If you look under the photos heading you will see a section for both iPhoto (if you have it installed) and Aperture. If you select the Aperture option you will see all the projects in your current Aperture library, as shown in the following screenshot. From here you can select any image.

This is a great tool that is often forgotten about by many users. It is accessible from any application that uses a standard OS X open and save dialog box, and it makes it very easy to access your images without having to export them first. There are a few downsides though. You are limited to the size settings available in the previews preferences. You can't arbitrarily set your image dimensions and you can't include a watermark this way. However, the media browser option is always...