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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

Entering captions and titles quickly


If you want to caption a lot of images in one go, the process can be quite monotonous. It doesn't have to be though, because Aperture has a neat little trick that can speed up the procedure substantially. To use this method, you have to enter one piece of information at a time. So if you need to enter captions and titles, enter all the titles first and then enter all the captions. To explain how this works, we are going to focus on adding captions by way of example, but this will work for titles, version names, or any other text-based field. You should have your images narrowed down to just the ones you want to caption before you start. Here's how this works:

  1. Switch to the info panel, and from the views drop-down menu choose Large Caption.

  2. Select the image you want to start with, and in the caption field enter whatever text you want as a caption.

  3. When you are finished doing this, before you click anywhere else, press command + right arrow button.

  4. This will...