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Mastering Apple Aperture

By : Thomas Fitzgerald
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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

Creating metadata templates


Now that you have an understanding of how to control what information gets displayed with Metadata View templates, you can move on to setting up templates for the actual data itself. We covered this briefly in Chapter 1, Advanced Importing and Organizing, and it is the same technique used to enter information in the import dialog. However, there are a couple of extra tricks that you can do in the info panel that are worth knowing. First let us take a quick look at how to create presets.

There are two ways you can get to the metadata presets editor:

  1. In the Aperture menu go to Presets | Metadata.

  2. On the info panel, click on the cog drop-down menu and choose Manage Presets.

Either of these methods will open the preset editor as shown in the following screenshot:

Once you are in the editor, you can create as many presets as you want in addition to any presets that you may have previously created, to be applied on import. For example, if you work for different wire services...