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Mastering Apple Aperture

Table of Contents Mastering Apple Aperture Credits About the Author About the Reviewers www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Downloading the color images of this book Reader feedback Customer support

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1. Advanced Importing and Organizing

A closer look at the import dialog Managed versus Referenced

Converting between referenced and managed Adding keywords while importing Importing images to an album Creating presets for your camera Real world examples

Making Aperture's library work for you

Projects, folders, and albums

Root level versus project level

Organizing your library

One-shoot-at-a-time approach Casual shooting approach Creating project templates Merging and splitting projects

Managing multiple libraries

Switching libraries Exporting a project as a library Importing a library

Library troubleshooting Managing RAW + JPEG

Working with in-camera black and white images

Shooting tethered

Requirements for tethered shooting Starting a session A tethered shoot

Summary

2. Advanced Adjustments

Understanding Aperture's adjustment tree

RAW versus RGB Demosaicing Linear gamma RGB adjustments Working on RAW data versus RGB data

Adding default adjustments Multiple adjustments Brushes-tips and tricks

Adding brushes to an adjustment Painting with brushes Editing brush masks outside of Aperture

Editing the brush masks

Cloning and healing

Using the retouch tool

Highlights and Shadows tool

Using the Highlights and Shadows tool

Saving, editing, and managing effect presets

Saving an adjustment recipe as an effect preset

Sharpening

Sharpening in the RAW Fine Tuning Brick Edge sharpening

Understanding how it works Be careful not to oversharpen

Noise reduction

Chroma versus luminance noise Noise reduction options in RAW fine tuning Getting the best noise reduction results in Aperture

Summary

3. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Curves

Curves basics

Referring to the tones in an image Putting the Curves in the Curves adjustment

Controlling contrast and brightness with Curves

Controlling brightness with Curves Contrast and the S-Curve The difference between contrast with Curves and the contrast slider Creating a high-key and low-key look

Warming up and cooling down

Adding warmth to an image Cooling down an image

Tinting shadows and highlights with Curves

Tinting shadows Tinting highlights Faded Shadows and Highlights

Using the eyedropper and automatic modes

Using the eyedroppers Using the automatic adjustments

Extended range Curves Multiple Curves adjustments Curves adjustment versus Levels adjustment Real world examples

Real world example – darkening skies Real world example – vignettes Real world example – controlling highlights

Summary

4. Aperture in Action

Controlling clipped highlights

Step 1

Real world example

Step 2 Step 3

Real world example Finishing touches

Fixing blown out skies

Real world example Finishing touches

Removing objects from a scene Fixing dust spots on multiple images Tips for fixing chromatic aberration Fixing purple fringing

Real world example Finishing touches

Creating fake duotones Fixing scanned negatives Summary

5. Extending Aperture

When and why you need to go outside Aperture What Aperture does when you use a plugin Mountain Lion and Gatekeeper Where to find plugins

Recommended plugins

PTLens Silver Efex Pro

A quick tour of Silver Efex Pro

Dfine

Honorable mentions

Color Efex Pro Photomatix

Working with external editors

Setting external editors preferences

Working with Photoshop

A quick way to create panoramas in Photoshop

Photoshop alternatives

Pixelmator

Key advantages Disadvantages

Acorn

Key advantages Disadvantages

Honourable mention – Photoshop Elements

Working with third-party RAW converters

Catapult

Using Catapult

Working with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Setting up Lightroom and finder

Summary

6. Exporting and Outputting to the Web

Setting preview settings Using OS X media browser Exporting versions Setting export presets

Filename and folder templates

Blogging from Aperture – the easy way

What is wrong with this method

Blogging from Aperture – the proper way Export plugins

TwitExport BorderFX 500-Wide iStockPhoto Uploader PhotoShelter Uploader

Exporting to Facebook and Flickr

Managing Facebook Managing Flickr A better option for Flickr

FlickrExport

Sharing with Photo Stream Creating a quick iPad Portfolio with Photo Stream Summary

7. Making Metadata Work for You

Why good metadata is important Aperture's Info tab

Metadata View templates

Name Only Caption Only Large Caption EXIF Info IPTC Core

Creating your own templates Create a preset to view all EXIF information

Creating metadata templates Different ways of entering keywords

Entering keywords from the Info tab

Using the keyword HUD The Keyword Control Bar Lift and Stamp keywords

Entering captions and titles quickly

Using TextExpander to speed up data entry

TextExpander Entering long strings of text for captions Keyword sets Using OS X's built-in autocomplete

Batch changing metadata Adding custom metadata

Some examples of when to use custom metadata

Searching and smart folders

The search HUD Smart albums

Summary

8. Getting Better Prints from Aperture

Calibrating your display

Choosing a display calibrator Calibrating your screen Calibrate often The limitations of calibration

Onscreen Proofing The print dialog

Show all the options

Print resolution Print sharpening

Creating print presets

Issues to be aware of when creating print presets

Printing and saving to PDF Creating a digital contact sheet to e-mail to clients

Printing to a JPEG file

Using the book tool for elaborate print layouts

Printing your page

Ordering prints using Apple's print service Ordering prints from a third-party service Summary

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