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An Overview of Printing
Aperture makes it easy to print high-resolution photos. You can print single photos, contact
sheets, webpages, and books. You can print photos selected in the Light Table, as well as create
PDF les that you can easily transfer to clients for review.
Aperture allows you to print your photos as high-resolution images and multi-image contact
sheets. Aperture also oers a variety of printing options, including using a standard, roll, or
custom paper size and assigning a specic ColorSync prole.
The easiest way to print photos is to use one of the Aperture print presets. Print presets, or
groups of print settings, allow you to print your photos without having to repeatedly change
your settings or remember settings used in specic situations. If the precongured presets don’t
meet your needs, you can create your own.
For example, if you regularly print both 8-by-10-inch and 11-by-14-inch photographs, you can
create a print preset for each of those paper sizes. For photographers with multiple printers, such
as a standard and wide-format inkjet printer, you can create print presets for each printer. Give
each preset a name you’ll remember, and the next time you need to print, simply select the print
preset that corresponds to your paper size or printer type.
You can create new print presets, modify existing print presets, and delete print presets you
no longer use. When changing your print presets, remember that modifying an existing preset
changes its original settings; creating a new preset, on the other hand, allows you to preserve
the settings in the existing preset. For more information about working with print presets, see
Creating and Modifying Print Presets on page 429.
Before you print your photos, you can soft proof them onscreen using the onscreen proong
feature. Proles used for onscreen proong are also applied to the photo when printed. For
more information about onscreen proong, see Setting Up the Viewer for Onscreen Proong on
page 114 .
Here are a few suggestions to help you with the printing process:
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Use the highest-resolution image possible: It’s preferable to work with photos imported directly
from your digital camera. However, even photos imported directly from your camera or card
reader can be low-resolution, low-quality images. This is why it’s important to shoot with the
highest-resolution settings available on your camera. Compression settings applied during
image capture may be apparent when you print. Consider shooting RAW les if the setting is
available, and shoot at the highest bit depth possible.
If you’ve imported a photo that was reduced or compressed in another application, Aperture
cannot increase the resolution of the le. In other words, Aperture cannot replace image
information that was previously removed during the compression process. If possible, locate
the original full-resolution image le, use the Lift and Stamp tools to apply the adjustments
you’ve made to the low-resolution le, and print the higher-resolution image le.
Printing Your Photos