Mastering Apple Aperture

Master the art of enhancing, organizing, exporting, and printing your photos using Apple Aperture

Overview

• 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

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.

What you will learn from this book

• 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

Approach

This is a practical, step-by-step guide that aims at taking your understanding of Aperture from novice to master.

Who this book is written 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.

精通蘋果Aperture的藝術：提升、整理、匯出和列印照片的技巧

概述：
- 學習如何使用蘋果Aperture的高級功能
- 熟悉曲線和原始檔轉換等高級主題
- 以易於理解的對話風格撰寫，並提供優化工作流程的技巧和訣竅

詳細內容：
蘋果Aperture是當今市場上領先的照片編輯軟體之一。它提供了所有工具，讓您可以組織、瀏覽和完善您的圖像，使每張照片都成為最佳之作。

《精通蘋果Aperture》旨在教授您成為蘋果Aperture軟體的大師所需的技能和知識。它將建立在您現有的核心技能基礎上，並向您展示在蘋果強大的攝影軟體中完成工作的新方法和高級方法。

《精通蘋果Aperture》首先向您展示了導入和組織圖像的最簡單和高效方法。然後，它介紹了處理照片的技巧，並涵蓋了使用連拍拍攝、多個資料庫、曲線和元數據等高級主題。

您將了解如何在Aperture中編輯圖像，並完全掌握圖像處理。您還將探索通過使用插件和第三方軟體來擴展Aperture的方法。本書最後提供了有關如何以最佳方式輸出Aperture圖像（無論是列印還是屏幕）的技巧和訣竅。

本書的學習重點：
- 精通將照片導入Aperture
- 了解原始檔轉換的工作原理及其對照片的影響
- 探索Aperture的調整面板，學習高級處理技巧
- 精通輸入元數據的技巧，並了解其重要性
- 在為網絡或其他線上服務輸出照片時獲得最佳效果
- 學習如何與Aperture一起使用其他軟體
- 使用必要的第三方插件優化Aperture
- 使用Aperture的工具組修復常見的圖像問題

方法：
這是一本實用的、逐步指南，旨在將您對Aperture的理解從初學者提升到大師。

本書的讀者：
本書適合具有數位攝影理解和對蘋果Aperture軟體有基本熟悉程度的攝影師。假設您已經使用過Aperture並熟悉軟體的基本功能。