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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

Creating print presets


As with many things in Aperture, you can save your set of settings in the print dialog as a preset. There are already presets for some common page sizes and print types, included as default, such as the Contact Sheet preset or the Standard preset. However, if you are regularly printing to different sizes or to different setups, you may want to create a preset for your printer and paper combinations so that you are not changing settings every time you want to print.

Creating print presets is actually a little counterintuitive because you should create the preset first, and then change the settings, rather than changing the settings and then saving it as a preset. You also must start with one of the existing templates, as you can't create a new one from scratch.

To create a new print preset, perform the following steps:

  1. Select an existing preset that is close to what you want to use.

  2. From the cog pop-up menu select Duplicate Preset.

  3. You will now have a new preset named after...