ApertureTM Exposed: The Mac? Photographer's Guide to Taming the Workflow

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Pub. Date: 2006-08-01
Publisher(s): Sybex
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Summary

Complete and practical, Aperture Exposed helps you take full advantage of the advanced features of Aperture 1.1. The first independent Aperture book written by professional Mac photographers, it's aimed directly at photographers looking to incorporate Aperture in their studio, wedding, or commercial photo business-or even when power using at home. The authors show you how to create a professional workflow using automation tools that are so effective, you won't believe how many images you can handle. Loaded with step-by-step instruction and graphics, this book is just what you need to start power using Aperture 1.1. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Ellen Anon, Ph.D. (Erie, PA) is an Apple Certified Trainer in Aperture. She has been a freelance photographer for more than a decade, leading and co-leading a variety of Photoshop workshops and seminars on her own as well as with renowned photographers such as Arthur Morris and Joe and Mary Ann McDonald. Her images have been in many gallery shows and are in collections on several continents, as well as being used in calendars, books, and more. Ellen has written extensively on digital photography, including magazine features, book chapters, and coauthoring Photoshop for Nature Photographers with Tim Grey (Sybex, 2005).

Josh Anon (Moraga, CA) has been a nature photographer for 10 years. His work is represented by EcoStock in Seattle and has appeared in a variety of media. Josh is a technical director at Pixar Animation Studios, where he works on cinematography and has contributed to Mac and Linux development  and rendering and model optimization. When not he's photographing in locations from the Great Barrier Reef to Chicago's Michigan Avenue, he teaches photography classes and also writes software for Lightbox Software.

Table of Contents

Introduction xviii
Welcome to Aperture
1(28)
What Is Aperture?
2(10)
The Photo Library
3(2)
Projects
5(2)
Albums
7(2)
Metadata
9(2)
Smart Albums
11(1)
The Library Project
11(1)
Importing Images
12(2)
Stacking
13(1)
Metadata
14(1)
Browsing and Viewing Images
14(4)
Light Tables
17(1)
Full Screen Mode
18(1)
Adjusting Images
18(3)
External Editors
20(1)
Sharing Images
21(8)
Books
21(1)
Web Pages
22(1)
Printing
23(1)
Slideshows
24(1)
Email
25(1)
Exporting Images
26(1)
Vaults
26(3)
Importing and Organizing Your Images
29(24)
The Import Panel
30(1)
Importing from a Camera
31(10)
Stacking Images in the Import Window
32(2)
Metadata
34(4)
Projects
38(2)
Task List
40(1)
Importing from a Disk
41(2)
Drag and Drop
42(1)
Importing from iPhoto
43(1)
Organizing Your Photos
44(2)
Working with Stacks
46(1)
Albums
47(6)
Smart Albums
48(5)
Viewing Images
53(30)
Viewing Images in Aperture
54(14)
Viewing Modes
54(5)
Louping Your Images
59(4)
Onscreen Proofing
63(1)
Viewing Metadata
64(1)
Window Layouts
65(3)
Full Screen Mode
68(6)
Viewing Options with Multiple Monitors
72(2)
Light Tables
74(5)
Slideshows
79(4)
Finding the Keepers
83(32)
Metadata, Keywords, and Ratings
84(18)
Understanding Metadata Formats
84(1)
Viewing Metadata in Aperture
85(7)
Using Keywords
92(6)
Rating Images
98(1)
Changing Metadata on Multiple Images
99(3)
Finding Your Images
102(4)
Smart Albums with Keywords
105(1)
Backing Up Your Images
106(9)
Vaults
107(2)
General Backup Concepts
109(6)
Nondestructive Image Processing
115(52)
Overview of the Tools
116(5)
Using the RAW Fine Tuning Controls
121(3)
Adjusting the Boost Parameters
122(1)
Adjusting the Sharpening Parameters
122(1)
Setting the Chroma Blur Parameters
123(1)
Using Auto Noise Compensation
123(1)
Default RAW Fine Tuning Settings
123(1)
Migrating Your Images to Aperture 1.1
123(1)
Using the Histograms
124(1)
Using the Image Processing Tools
125(36)
Using the Toolbar Tools
126(5)
Using the Adjustment Filters
131(30)
Batch Processing
161(1)
Understanding Masters and Versions
162(5)
Exporting Images
167(22)
Opening Images in an External Editor (Photoshop)
168(4)
Specifying the External Editor
168(1)
Opening Images in Photoshop
169(3)
Common Situations When Using Photoshop Is Beneficial
172(1)
Exporting Images
172(12)
Using Export Presets with Versions
173(7)
Exporting to Email
180(2)
Exporting Master Files
182(2)
Exporting a Project
184(5)
Importing a Project
187(2)
Printing
189(16)
Color-Managed Workflow
190(4)
Monitor Calibration
190(2)
Soft Proofing Images
192(2)
Printing Images
194(11)
Printing Single Images
194(5)
Ordering Prints through Aperture
199(1)
Printing a Contact Sheet
200(1)
Printing a Collage from the Light Table
201(4)
Creating Web Content
205(24)
Creating Websites
206(12)
Creating Web Galleries
206(9)
Smart Web Galleries
215(1)
Creating Web Journals
215(3)
Exporting Your Site
218(3)
Using Other Tools to Make Websites with Aperture
221(1)
Making Custom Web Themes
221(8)
What's in a Theme?
223(1)
Editing the globaless File
223(1)
Editing the HTML Templates
224(2)
Trying It Out
226(3)
Creating a Book
229(22)
Overview of the Book Creation Process
230(3)
Tools in the Book Layout Editor
231(2)
Creating and Customizing a Book
233(18)
Starting the Book Album
233(2)
Choosing a Theme
235(6)
Laying Out the Book
241(7)
Finishing the Book
248(3)
Advanced Aperture
251(27)
Automator
252(10)
Batch Rename
253(2)
Aperture to iPhoto
255(2)
Aperture to an iDVD Slideshow
257(1)
Automatically Import from a Folder to Aperture
258(1)
Separate JPEGs and Import to Aperture
259(2)
Auto-Open in Adobe Camera RAW
261(1)
Multiple Photo Libraries
262(3)
Aperture Library Spanner
264(1)
Exploring the Photo Library
265(5)
Exploring Project Bundles
267(1)
Smart Folders to Find Your Aperture Images
268(2)
RAW Files as Smart Objects
270(8)
Troubleshooting Aperture
273(1)
Image-Specific Problems
273(2)
Global Problems
275(3)
Index 278

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