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Contents 1 Preface Part I Chapter 1 Chapter 2 13 Introducing Aperture 14 What's Next? Interface and Acquisition 17 An Overview of Aperture 18 A First Look at Aperture 19 Creating Projects and Importing Your Photos 23 Photo Editing with Aperture 34 Image Processing 35 Distribution 40 Sharing Images with iLife and iWork Applications 41... Backing Up Your Work 43 The Aperture Interface 44 The Aperture Main Window 45 Browser 48 Viewer 50 Full Screen View 57 Inspector Pane 61 Toolbar 62 Control Bar 64 Import ...
Contents 1 Preface Part I Chapter 1 Chapter 2 13 Introducing Aperture 14 What's Next? Interface and Acquisition 17 An Overview of Aperture 18 A First Look at Aperture 19 Creating Projects and Importing Your Photos 23 Photo Editing with Aperture 34 Image Processing 35 Distribution 40 Sharing Images with iLife and iWork Applications 41... Backing Up Your Work 43 The Aperture Interface 44 The Aperture Main Window 45 Browser 48 Viewer 50 Full Screen View 57 Inspector Pane 61 Toolbar 62 Control Bar 64 Import ...
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Chapter 3 Chapter 4 93 Working with Aperture Projects 94 Basic Components of Aperture 100 Working with Projects 101 Creating and Naming Projects 103 Opening and Closing Projects 104 Creating and Showing Favorite Projects 105 Deleting Images from Projects ... Images from Your iPhoto Library 143 Transferring Projects from Another System 143 Making an Immediate Backup 144 Where Aperture Stores Your Managed Files in the Library 144 Migrating Images from Previous Versions of Aperture Part II Chapter 5 Photo Editing 149 Working with Images in the Browser 150 An Overview of the Browser...
Chapter 3 Chapter 4 93 Working with Aperture Projects 94 Basic Components of Aperture 100 Working with Projects 101 Creating and Naming Projects 103 Opening and Closing Projects 104 Creating and Showing Favorite Projects 105 Deleting Images from Projects ... Images from Your iPhoto Library 143 Transferring Projects from Another System 143 Making an Immediate Backup 144 Where Aperture Stores Your Managed Files in the Library 144 Migrating Images from Previous Versions of Aperture Part II Chapter 5 Photo Editing 149 Working with Images in the Browser 150 An Overview of the Browser...
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Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 161 Searching for Images in the Browser 162 Rearranging Images in the Browser 163 Sorting Images 163 Rotating Images 165 Creating Versions of an Image 166 Deleting Images from the Browser 168 Dragging Images into Different Projects and Albums 169 Working with Referenced Images 176 Working with Two or More Projects Open 176 Displaying Specific Metadata with Your Images 179 Displaying Images in the Viewer 180 An Overview of the Viewer 182 Showing and Hiding the Viewer 182 Changing the Viewer Background 183 Changing the Number of Images in the Viewer 184 Comparing ...
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 161 Searching for Images in the Browser 162 Rearranging Images in the Browser 163 Sorting Images 163 Rotating Images 165 Creating Versions of an Image 166 Deleting Images from the Browser 168 Dragging Images into Different Projects and Albums 169 Working with Referenced Images 176 Working with Two or More Projects Open 176 Displaying Specific Metadata with Your Images 179 Displaying Images in the Viewer 180 An Overview of the Viewer 182 Showing and Hiding the Viewer 182 Changing the Viewer Background 183 Changing the Number of Images in the Viewer 184 Comparing ...
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Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 233 Rating Images 234 An Overview of the Aperture Rating System 236 Rating Images 238 Sorting Images by Rating 239 Including Image Rating in Your Workflow 240 Comparing and Rating Images 242 Keyboard Shortcuts ...
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 233 Rating Images 234 An Overview of the Aperture Rating System 236 Rating Images 238 Sorting Images by Rating 239 Including Image Rating in Your Workflow 240 Comparing and Rating Images 242 Keyboard Shortcuts ...
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... 324 Deleting a Smart Album Part III Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Performing Image Adjustments 327 An Overview of Image Adjustments 328 An Overview of Adjustments in Aperture 332 Using the Adjustment Controls 333 Working with Adjustment Tools in the Viewer 334 Performing Adjustments in Full Screen View 335 Applying Adjustments to a Group...
... 324 Deleting a Smart Album Part III Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Performing Image Adjustments 327 An Overview of Image Adjustments 328 An Overview of Adjustments in Aperture 332 Using the Adjustment Controls 333 Working with Adjustment Tools in the Viewer 334 Performing Adjustments in Full Screen View 335 Applying Adjustments to a Group...
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378 Viewing the Corrected Image Without Red Eye Target Overlays 379 Moving Red Eye Target Overlays 380 Deleting Red Eye Target Overlays 381 Working with the Retouch and Spot & Patch Controls 381 Working with the Retouch Controls 386 Working with the Spot & Patch Controls 398 Working with the Devignette Controls 399 Working with the Straighten Controls 400 Rotating Images with the Straighten Tool 401 Rotating Images with the Straighten Controls 402 Working with the Crop Controls 403 Cropping Images with the Crop Tool 406 Displaying the Cropped Image Without the Crop Overlay 406 Cropping Images ...
378 Viewing the Corrected Image Without Red Eye Target Overlays 379 Moving Red Eye Target Overlays 380 Deleting Red Eye Target Overlays 381 Working with the Retouch and Spot & Patch Controls 381 Working with the Retouch Controls 386 Working with the Spot & Patch Controls 398 Working with the Devignette Controls 399 Working with the Straighten Controls 400 Rotating Images with the Straighten Tool 401 Rotating Images with the Straighten Controls 402 Working with the Crop Controls 403 Cropping Images with the Crop Tool 406 Displaying the Cropped Image Without the Crop Overlay 406 Cropping Images ...
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454 Using the Monochrome Mixer Controls 455 Working with the Color Monochrome Controls 456 Working with the Sepia Tone Controls 457 Working with the Noise Reduction Controls 458 Working with the Sharpen and Edge Sharpen Controls 459 Working with the Edge Sharpen Controls 462 Understanding the Edge Sharpen Workflow 462 Working with the Sharpen Controls 463 Working with the Vignette Controls 464 Applying an Exposure Vignette 465 Applying a Gamma Vignette 467 Switching Vignette Types Part IV Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Distribution and Backup 471 Printing Your Images 472 An Overview of ...
454 Using the Monochrome Mixer Controls 455 Working with the Color Monochrome Controls 456 Working with the Sepia Tone Controls 457 Working with the Noise Reduction Controls 458 Working with the Sharpen and Edge Sharpen Controls 459 Working with the Edge Sharpen Controls 462 Understanding the Edge Sharpen Workflow 462 Working with the Sharpen Controls 463 Working with the Vignette Controls 464 Applying an Exposure Vignette 465 Applying a Gamma Vignette 467 Switching Vignette Types Part IV Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Distribution and Backup 471 Printing Your Images 472 An Overview of ...
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Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 518 Creating a Growing Grid of Images 519 Playing Your Slideshow on Your Main Display Only 520 Displaying Your Images to Music 523 Using the Light Table 524 An Overview of the Light Table 525 Creating a Light Table Album 526 Placing and Viewing Images in the Light Table 527 Moving and Resizing Images in the Light Table 528 Aligning and Arranging Images in the Light Table 531 Adjusting the Light Table View 532 Setting View Options for the Light Table 532 Transferring Images from the Light Table 533 Printing a Light Table Arrangement 534 Deleting a Light Table ...
Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 518 Creating a Growing Grid of Images 519 Playing Your Slideshow on Your Main Display Only 520 Displaying Your Images to Music 523 Using the Light Table 524 An Overview of the Light Table 525 Creating a Light Table Album 526 Placing and Viewing Images in the Light Table 527 Moving and Resizing Images in the Light Table 528 Aligning and Arranging Images in the Light Table 531 Adjusting the Light Table View 532 Setting View Options for the Light Table 532 Transferring Images from the Light Table 533 Printing a Light Table Arrangement 534 Deleting a Light Table ...
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... 619 Deleting a Vault Permanently 619 Backing Up Images from a Portable in the Field 621 Restoring Your Aperture System Part V Appendixes and Glossary Appendix A 625 Setting Up an Aperture System 626 Setting Up a Basic System 627 Optional Equipment to Consider 629 Setting Up Your System with... Two Displays 631 Configuring Mac OS X for Multiple Displays Appendix B 635 Calibrating Your Aperture System 635 An Overview of Color Management 639 Calibrating Your Camera 640 Calibrating and Profiling Your Display 642 ...
... 619 Deleting a Vault Permanently 619 Backing Up Images from a Portable in the Field 621 Restoring Your Aperture System Part V Appendixes and Glossary Appendix A 625 Setting Up an Aperture System 626 Setting Up a Basic System 627 Optional Equipment to Consider 629 Setting Up Your System with... Two Displays 631 Configuring Mac OS X for Multiple Displays Appendix B 635 Calibrating Your Aperture System 635 An Overview of Color Management 639 Calibrating Your Camera 640 Calibrating and Profiling Your Display 642 ...
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..., or printing them . Â Versatile printing and publishing: Working directly with tools that are stored on any number of professional photographers, Aperture is a powerful and easy-to-use digital image management system that provides: Â An advanced RAW workflow: From capture to output, you... An open library structure lets you store photos anywhere you can work with high-quality image management and adjustment tools. Preface Introducing Aperture Aperture is an all-in safeguards to help ensure that you don't accidentally overwrite or modify them . You can track thousands of...
..., or printing them . Â Versatile printing and publishing: Working directly with tools that are stored on any number of professional photographers, Aperture is a powerful and easy-to-use digital image management system that provides: Â An advanced RAW workflow: From capture to output, you... An open library structure lets you store photos anywhere you can work with high-quality image management and adjustment tools. Preface Introducing Aperture Aperture is an all-in safeguards to help ensure that you don't accidentally overwrite or modify them . You can track thousands of...
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... TIFF, and RAW image files directly from the Aperture Help menu. 14 Preface Introducing Aperture You can try out Aperture features as you work with the sample images to quickly get acquainted with Aperture. Â For instructions for installing Aperture software, see Installing Your Software. Â For... latest articles about technical issues and solutions, go to perform tasks in Aperture, see Exploring Aperture. This manual is only one of several types of documentation you can use to the Aperture Support website, available from your camera or card reader and maintain that high...
... TIFF, and RAW image files directly from the Aperture Help menu. 14 Preface Introducing Aperture You can try out Aperture features as you work with the sample images to quickly get acquainted with Aperture. Â For instructions for installing Aperture software, see Installing Your Software. Â For... latest articles about technical issues and solutions, go to perform tasks in Aperture, see Exploring Aperture. This manual is only one of several types of documentation you can use to the Aperture Support website, available from your camera or card reader and maintain that high...
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It also explains how to set up your image management system and import images into it. An Overview of Aperture The Aperture Interface Working with Aperture Projects Importing Images Part I: Interface and Acquisition I Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 This section provides introductory information about the application and its interface.
It also explains how to set up your image management system and import images into it. An Overview of Aperture The Aperture Interface Working with Aperture Projects Importing Images Part I: Interface and Acquisition I Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 This section provides introductory information about the application and its interface.
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... needed to perform work on your digital photography workflow, from capturing new images to be the center of your images. An Overview of Aperture 1 1 Aperture is for you 'll find in-depth explanations and instructions in later chapters. This chapter provides an overview of how... Aperture works and what you 're familiar with the Aperture features and interface, feel free to skip this chapter is designed to the final delivery of professional-quality photographs. Once you...
... needed to perform work on your digital photography workflow, from capturing new images to be the center of your images. An Overview of Aperture 1 1 Aperture is for you 'll find in-depth explanations and instructions in later chapters. This chapter provides an overview of how... Aperture works and what you 're familiar with the Aperture features and interface, feel free to skip this chapter is designed to the final delivery of professional-quality photographs. Once you...
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A First Look at Aperture When you first open Aperture, you want, your toolbar may appear different from the one pictured in the Projects inspector. Your projects appear here in this manual. For more information ...
A First Look at Aperture When you first open Aperture, you want, your toolbar may appear different from the one pictured in the Projects inspector. Your projects appear here in this manual. For more information ...
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...devices where you've archived digital files. Chapter 1 An Overview of Aperture 19 You can then easily import your new images into Aperture. After a shoot, you can import digital photos directly from the Aperture installation disc at any time after installing the application. You can ...or digital camera to install sample projects. You can import the sample projects into Aperture from your photos. When you first open Aperture, a dialog appears asking if you'd like to your computer and Aperture automatically detects it. I After you import images into a project, your screen ...
...devices where you've archived digital files. Chapter 1 An Overview of Aperture 19 You can then easily import your new images into Aperture. After a shoot, you can import digital photos directly from the Aperture installation disc at any time after installing the application. You can ...or digital camera to install sample projects. You can import the sample projects into Aperture from your photos. When you first open Aperture, a dialog appears asking if you'd like to your computer and Aperture automatically detects it. I After you import images into a project, your screen ...
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... projects as you need to further subdivide and organize images in a project, you can create albums. Over the long term you may be using Aperture to track years of images. It's important to name projects so that can hold your work into it. When you need and name them according... you prefer. For more projects, you can organize your images. Your new project appears in a list in projects and albums, see Chapter 3, "Working with Aperture, you create projects to hold dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of projects, so you'll want to develop a naming system that is similar to a folder...
... projects as you need to further subdivide and organize images in a project, you can create albums. Over the long term you may be using Aperture to track years of images. It's important to name projects so that can hold your work into it. When you need and name them according... you prefer. For more projects, you can organize your images. Your new project appears in a list in projects and albums, see Chapter 3, "Working with Aperture, you create projects to hold dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of projects, so you'll want to develop a naming system that is similar to a folder...
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...images already stored on your images be imported into . You can specify another location to your computer, the Import dialog appears. If you have Aperture import and stack these images together to make reviewing and working with each image to import. When you 're about to help identify it. ...Specify a project to import your images into the Aperture library in your images are named and include other import options, such as copyright information. You can select your camera or card reader and see...
...images already stored on your images be imported into . You can specify another location to your computer, the Import dialog appears. If you have Aperture import and stack these images together to make reviewing and working with each image to import. When you 're about to help identify it. ...Specify a project to import your images into the Aperture library in your images are named and include other import options, such as copyright information. You can select your camera or card reader and see...
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... and on page 109. 22 Part I Interface and Acquisition You can simply identify where the images are located, and Aperture adds them into Aperture from a variety of supported digital cameras  TIFF Note: For a list of common file types and formats,... of Work You can easily import your collection of archived digital images into the main Aperture library, or you can still work with Aperture, you can also move or copy images to its management system without relocating or reorganizing... your images in a variety of supported digital cameras, go to http://www.apple.com/aperture.
... and on page 109. 22 Part I Interface and Acquisition You can simply identify where the images are located, and Aperture adds them into Aperture from a variety of supported digital cameras  TIFF Note: For a list of common file types and formats,... of Work You can easily import your collection of archived digital images into the main Aperture library, or you can still work with Aperture, you can also move or copy images to its management system without relocating or reorganizing... your images in a variety of supported digital cameras, go to http://www.apple.com/aperture.
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... in the Browser, or drag them into different projects or albums. You can show your images onscreen. Select images here. I Photo Editing with Aperture Aperture allows you to easily view and work with a white outline. You use tools and controls, as well as a grid of thumbnails appearing in ...images to -use the Browser to and select other images, press the arrow keys. When you select a project in the Projects inspector and Aperture displays that shows images in detail. To quickly move to review, organize, and select images. It provides easy-to rearrange them in the ...
... in the Browser, or drag them into different projects or albums. You can show your images onscreen. Select images here. I Photo Editing with Aperture Aperture allows you to easily view and work with a white outline. You use tools and controls, as well as a grid of thumbnails appearing in ...images to -use the Browser to and select other images, press the arrow keys. When you select a project in the Projects inspector and Aperture displays that shows images in detail. To quickly move to review, organize, and select images. It provides easy-to rearrange them in the ...