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About This Book

Learn how to use the advanced features of Apple Aperture

Become well-versed with advanced topics such as curves and how raw conversion works

Written in an easy-to-follow conversational style and packed with tips and tricks for optimizing your workflow

Who This Book Is For

This book is written for photographers who have an understanding of digital photography and who have a basic level of familiarity with Apple?s Aperture software. It is assumed that you have used Aperture and are familiar with the basics of the software.

Table of Contents

1: ADVANCED IMPORTING AND ORGANIZING

2: ADVANCED ADJUSTMENTS

3: EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT CURVES

4: APERTURE IN ACTION

5: EXTENDING APERTURE

6: EXPORTING AND OUTPUTTING TO THE WEB

7: MAKING METADATA WORK FOR YOU

8: GETTING BETTER PRINTS FROM APERTURE

What You Will Learn

Master importing your photos into Aperture

Understand how raw conversion works and how it affects your photographs

Explore Aperture?s adjustment panel and learn advanced processing techniques

Master the art of entering metadata and learn why it is important

Get the best results when outputting your photographs for the Web or other online services

Learn how to use other software in tandem with Aperture

Optimize Aperture with essential third-party plugins

Fix common image problems with Aperture?s toolset

In Detail

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.

Authors

Thomas Fitzgerald

Thomas Fitzgerald has been trained in animation and graphic designing, and from there he became a motion graphics artist working in television and film, but he always pursued his love for photography. His work with the visual medium of motion pictures encouraged his skills as a photographer and his cross-disciplined approach led him to his passion for photography today. Currently, Thomas is a freelance motion graphics artist and animator, as well as a fine art photographer and a prolific blogger. He has been using Aperture since the very first version came out, and writes and produces a popular blog about Aperture, .