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Contents : 3 r e t pahC 7 8 8 12 22 32 33 Chapter 1: Finding Your Way Around Aperture Before You Begin Opening Aperture Exploring the Library Inspector Exploring the Toolbar Useful Keyboard Shortcuts Key Concepts 35 35 44 46 Chapter 2: Importing Images Exploring Import Options Learning About Importing Images Key Concepts 47 48 53 56 61 Chapter 3: Exploring Photo Editing Stacking Images Comparing Images Rating Images Assigning Keywords to Images 66 Key Concepts 3
67 Chapter 4: Exploring Faces 68 Naming Faces 78 Key Concepts 79 Chapter 5: Exploring Places 80 Working with Places View 92 Key Concepts 93 95 99 106 111 Chapter 6: Exploring Adjustments Applying Adjustment Presets to Versions Making Adjustments in Full Screen View Brushing On Adjustments Key Concepts 113 113 115 119 Chapter 7: Sharing Images Online Setting Up Your Accounts Publishing Images to Flickr Key Concepts 121 121 127 130 Chapter 8: Working with an Aperture Book Exploring an Aperture Book Learn
131 Chapter 9: Creating an Aperture Slideshow 131 Presenting Slideshows 141 Key Concepts 143 144 150 151 Chapter 10: Printing from Aperture Exploring Printing Learning About Printing Key Concepts 153 Chapter 11: Getting Answers 153 Exploring Aperture Help 154 What’s Next? Contents 5
Finding Your Way Around Aperture : 1 r e t pahC 1 Welcome to Aperture. If you’re new to the Aperture digital image workflow, this guide is for you. Here you’ll open a sample library and learn by doing. Each chapter of this book presents major features and guides you in trying things out. Feel free to explore on your own. Have fun learning the basics. Later, when you feel comfortable, you can bring in your own photos and begin serious work with Aperture.
Before You Begin The Aperture installation disc contains a sample library designed to help you become familiar with Aperture. To copy the sample library to your computer mm Drag the Aperture 3 Sample Library file and the Wyoming folder from the Aperture installation disc into the Pictures folder on your hard disk. Note: If you purchased Aperture from the Mac App Store, you can use your own images to follow along with the instructions in this book.
2 If a dialog appears asking whether you want to use Aperture when you connect a digital camera, click either Use Aperture or Decide Later, as you wish. When you first open Aperture, a welcome window appears, offering access to online tutorials and helpful training. 3 Click the Close button. 4 When a dialog appears asking whether you want to see your photos on a map, click Yes. Aperture is now set to automatically locate photos based on GPS information recorded with them.
5 Choose File > Switch to Library > Other. 6 When a dialog appears asking which library you want Aperture to use, select Aperture 3 Sample Library and click Choose. The main window appears, complete with sample projects and images that you can use to try out Aperture features.
On the left you see the Library inspector, where you create and work with projects that hold your images. Select Projects here. Projects Library inspector Now you’re ready to explore the main window.
Exploring the Library Inspector First you’ll explore important features in the Library inspector. Try This Feel free to try out any of the following to see what happens. Review projects mm Select Projects at the top of the Library inspector. The main window switches to Projects view, showing the projects in the library. Key photo representing the project mm Move the pointer left or right across a project to quickly skim its images. Projects view provides a simple way of browsing projects.
Review all your photos mm Select Photos in the Library inspector. The Browser shows all the individual images in the library. Click here to see all your photos.
Review photos of people in the library mm Select Faces in the Library inspector. The main window switches to Faces view, showing faces that have been identified in your images. Aperture uses face detection and face recognition technology to automatically scan and identify faces that appear in your images. You’ll learn more about this feature later.
Review images by location mm Select Places in the Library inspector. The main window switches to Places view, showing the locations of your images on a world map. Location of the selected image Selected image Aperture can automatically locate images on the map if the camera has recorded GPS information. You can also manually specify the location of an image, and Aperture identifies the image’s map location.
View flagged images mm Select Flagged in the Library inspector. All the flagged images now appear together in Flagged view. You can flag any image you want by selecting it in the Browser and pressing Slash (/). To unflag an image, select it and press Slash again. Flagged images Click Flagged to display flagged images. View deleted items mm Click the Trash icon in the Library inspector. The window changes to show items waiting to be permanently deleted from the library.
View images rated five stars mm Select the five-star Smart Album in the Library inspector. The Browser shows all images that have been rated five stars. Whenever you rate a new image five stars, it automatically appears in this album. Select this album.
View video clips in the library 1 Select the Videos Smart Album in the Library inspector. The Browser shows all video clips that have been imported into the library. Whenever you import a new video clip, it automatically appears in this album. 2 Double-click a video clip to open it. Click the Play button to view the clip.
Select a folder 1 Click the Wildlife folder in the Library inspector to select it. (You may have to scroll in the Library inspector to see the Wildlife folder.) Then click the Split View button in the toolbar. Split View button Browser Select this folder. 2 Click images in the Browser to see them displayed in the Viewer.
Select a project 1 Select the Bears project in the Wildlife folder in the Library inspector. The Browser changes to show the images in the project. Select this project. 2 Shift-click images in the Browser to select multiple images at once. The Viewer changes to display the selected images.
Select an album 1 Select the Alaska Smart Album in the Library inspector. The Browser changes to show the images in the Smart Album. A Smart Album automatically gathers images and other items based on search criteria that you specify. In this case, the Alaska Smart Album displays any image that has the word Alaska assigned as a keyword or as part of the caption. Select this Smart Album. 2 Select an image in the Browser, then hold down the Shift key while pressing the arrow keys to select multiple images.
Exploring the Toolbar The Aperture toolbar provides easy access to frequently used features. In this section you’ll explore some of the buttons and controls in the toolbar. Toolbar Try This Show or hide the Inspector pane 1 Click the Inspector button in the toolbar to hide the Inspector pane, giving you more room to work on images. 2 Click the Inspector button again to show the Inspector pane.
Show or hide the Import pane and the Import browser 1 Click the Import button in the toolbar to open the Import pane and Import browser. Import button Import pane Import browser With the Import pane and Import browser open, you can select your camera or files on your computer and import images into Aperture. 2 Click the Import button again to hide the Import pane and Import browser.
Create a new item in the Library inspector mm Click the New pop-up menu in the toolbar to open it. New pop-up menu With the New pop-up menu open, you can choose the new item that you want to create. You can create projects, folders, albums, and more. Don’t create anything new for now.
Change to the Browser layout mm Click the Browser button in the toolbar. The main window layout changes to show a large view of the Browser, so you can easily review images in a selected folder, project, or album.
Change to the Split View layout 1 Click the Split View button in the toolbar. The main window layout changes to show the Viewer with the Browser below it. Split View button Viewer Browser 2 Select images in the Browser to see them in the Viewer.
Change to the Viewer layout mm Click the Viewer button in the toolbar. The main window layout changes to show a large view of the Viewer only, so you can focus your work on a specific image or selection of images.
Examine images with the Loupe 1 Click the Loupe button in the toolbar. The Loupe appears, enabling you to see a magnified view of specific areas of an image. You can choose the magnification level you want from the pop-up menu on the handle of the Loupe. Loupe button Loupe 2 Drag the Loupe over the image in the Viewer to see how it works. 3 Click the Loupe button again to hide the Loupe.
Zoom in to or out of an image 1 Click the Zoom Viewer button in the tool strip.
2 Drag the small rectangle in the navigation box to change your view of the image. When you position the pointer over the navigation box, it expands, allowing you to drag the rectangle to reposition your view. Drag the rectangle to reposition the view. 3 Click the Zoom Viewer button in the tool strip again to zoom out of the image.
Switch to Full Screen view 1 Click the Full Screen button in the toolbar. The main window changes to show you a full-screen view of a selected image. Full Screen view is ideal for working on the details of an image without distractions. 2 Position the pointer at the top of the screen to display the Full Screen view toolbar. The toolbar provides useful tools and controls for working with your images. Toolbar 3 Position the pointer at the bottom of the screen to display the filmstrip.
Useful Keyboard Shortcuts Keyboard shortcuts provide an efficient way of choosing commands and working with features. Here are a few valuable keyboard shortcuts that you’ll find handy. Try This Use keyboard shortcuts to change views mm Press F to switch between Full Screen view and the main window. mm Press I to show or hide the Inspector pane. mm Press W to switch between the Library inspector, the Metadata inspector, and the Adjustments inspector.
Key Concepts ÂÂ Projects: Containers used to hold master image files, image versions, and albums. When project files are moved, the contents are moved with them. ÂÂ Folders: Organizational tools used to organize projects, albums, and other folders. You can create folders to organize projects, or you can create folders within projects to organize albums. ÂÂ Albums: Organizational tools used to organize versions of images. You can create albums within projects to organize versions for a specific purpose.
Importing Images : 2 r e t pahC 2 Aperture provides a variety of easy-to-use import options designed to suit the needs of any photographer. In this chapter, you’ll experiment with importing sample images and familiarizing yourself with basic import features. You’ll import images into a project, trying out different methods of assigning names and preparing images for import. After you’ve had some basic experience importing sample images, you can begin envisioning how to import your own images.
You then select the images you want to import and specify import options. Import button Import pane Images to be imported Import browser Rather than importing images from a camera or card reader, for now you’ll just import some sample images from the Wyoming folder that you copied to your hard disk in Chapter 1.
Try This Open the Import browser and choose a destination 1 Click the Import button in the toolbar to open the Import browser. The Import browser appears. 2 Select the Wildlife folder in the Library inspector. The Destination pop-up menu changes to show that the Wildlife folder is selected as the destination. Import button Destination pop-up menu Click here to import the images. Select the folder holding the images to be imported.
3 Click Pictures in the file browser and select the Wyoming folder that holds your sample images. You see the sample images appear as thumbnails. Note: The images you see on your screen may be different from those shown here. Use the file browser to navigate to the images you want to import. By default, all of the images are selected for import. You can also select just the images that you want to import by deselecting the checkboxes for the images you don’t want.
The name “Wyoming” appears in the Project Name field. Project Name field Aperture is now set to import your images into a new project named Wyoming inside the Wildlife folder. You can also set Aperture to import images into an existing project by selecting a project in the Library inspector. 4 Choose “In the Aperture Library” from the Store Files pop-up menu to store the files in the Aperture library on your hard disk.
View information about specific images mm To view information about specific images, choose File Info from the Import Settings pop-up menu. The File Info area of the Import browser displays information about your images. Click different images to select them and see the information change. Import Settings pop-up menu Information about a selected image appears here. mm Double-click an image in the Import browser to see a larger view of it. Double-click it again to return it to the standard size.
Name images when you import them 1 Choose Rename Files from the Import Settings pop-up menu. The Rename Files options appear in the Import browser. Rename Files options You choose the type of naming convention you want from the Version Name pop-up menu. Aperture provides a variety of name formats and also allows you to create custom name formats. 2 Choose Custom Name with Counter from the Version Name pop-up menu.
3 Enter “Wyoming” in the Name Text field. Aperture will name the imported images Wyoming 001, Wyoming 002, Wyoming 003, and so on. Filenaming options Add metadata to images when you import them 1 Choose Metadata Presets from the Import Settings pop-up menu. The Metadata Presets options appear. 2 Choose Basic Info from the Metadata pop-up menu in the Metadata Presets area.
3 Enter a caption, keywords, and any other metadata that you want all the imported images to have. Import the images into Aperture 1 Click the Import Checked button to import the images. 2 After Aperture imports the files, click OK. 3 Select the Wyoming project in the Library inspector to see the names given to the imported images. (Click the Split View button to see the images in the Browser, if necessary.
Learning About Importing Images You can import a wide variety of file types into Aperture, including RAW images from your camera, JPEG files, and TIFF files, among others. You can even import video and audio clips that you can play in the Viewer and use in slideshows. You can also import the images from your iPhoto library, and Aperture can maintain the original iPhoto organization that you’re already familiar with. When you import a photo into Aperture, the original file is the master.
Referenced images are images whose masters are not stored in the library. They are located elsewhere on a hard disk or other media, and Aperture merely refers to the masters in that location. The advantage of using referenced images is that you can import your portfolio of existing images as they are currently stored on disk, without having to physically copy or move them into the Aperture library. You can also give Aperture access to images on different hard disks.
Key Concepts ÂÂ Masters: The original image files imported from your camera, memory card, computer, or external storage media. The masters are never changed by Aperture, so that the original image is preserved and can be used again. ÂÂ Versions: The images you see and change in Aperture are called versions. Versions are based on the original master, and you can change, copy, and adjust them any way you want. ÂÂ Managed image: An image whose master resides in the Aperture library.
Exploring Photo Editing : 3 r e t pahC 3 Aperture provides efficient ways of reviewing and working with images in your projects. You can quickly organize similar photos in stacks that make groups of images easy to work with. You can compare similar images side by side to choose the best one. You can rate images, assigning ratings of zero to five stars, and you can reject images you don’t like. You can also assign keywords to images and use these keywords to easily gather and review specific images later.
Stacking Images Aperture can automatically group related photos into stacks when you import them and as you work with them in the Browser. For example, if you shoot a series of images in quick succession (such as at a sports event), you most likely will want to view those images together. Aperture can automatically stack those images based on the time interval in which they were captured by the camera.
You can also manually select images in the Browser and stack them. The image that represents the stack, called the pick, is displayed on the left side of the open stack. You can drag the images in a stack into any order, changing the pick image when you want. The Stack button, in the upper-left corner of the pick image in the stack, indicates the number of images in the stack. Stack button Getting Ready 1 Select the Wyoming project in the Wildlife folder in the Library inspector.
Aperture automatically stacks any images that were taken within a minute of one another. 3 Close the Auto-Stack Images HUD. Close all stacks mm Choose Stacks > Close All Stacks. Aperture closes the stacks.
Open or close a stack mm Click a Stack button (with the number of images in the stack) to open or close a stack. Stack button Unstack images 1 Click the Stack button to open the stack of images shown below, then click the first image to select it. 2 Choose Stacks > Unstack. Aperture unstacks the images.
Create stacks manually 1 In the Browser, click the Wyoming 004 image, then Shift-click the Wyoming 007 image so that four images are selected. Select these images. 2 Choose Stacks > Stack. Aperture stacks the images together. Rearrange images in a stack mm Drag images in the open stack to change their order. You can also add images to or remove images from the stack by dragging them into or out of the stack.
Select the pick 1 Select the Wyoming 005 image. The leftmost image is the pick image, the one that represents the stack when the stack is closed. 2 Choose Stacks > Pick to make the selected image the pick. Stack pick Comparing Images Photographers often want to compare images side by side to check adjustments, rate images, or determine which shots are best. Aperture provides an easy way to compare images. Getting Ready mm Click the Split View button in the toolbar.
Try This Compare images side by side 1 Select the Wyoming 005 image in the Browser. Select this image.
2 Choose View > Main Viewer > Compare. Aperture displays the selected image, outlined in green, as a “compare” image. The next image in the Browser is displayed on the right. You can now compare the two and decide which image is better.
3 Press the Right Arrow key or Left Arrow key to compare the first image in the stack against the other images. 4 Press Return to select a new compare image. 5 Press Option-U to turn off the comparison feature. Rating Images As you review images, you can easily rate them from zero to five stars and reject images that you don’t like. You can then have Aperture display only images in the Browser that have a certain rating or higher.
Try This Rate images 1 Select the Wyoming 005 image, and press 5 to assign a five-star rating. Five-star rating You assign ratings by pressing the number keys 0 to 5. You can also press Plus Sign (+) or Minus Sign (–) to increase or decrease the rating of a selected image.
2 Assign the Wyoming 004, Wyoming 006, and Wyoming 007 the ratings shown below. 3 Click the Stack button on the Wyoming 005 image to close the stack. 4 Select several of the stacks and assign the pick image a five-star rating, as shown below.
Find images based on their rating mm Choose five stars from the search field pop-up menu (with a magnifying glass icon) to display only five-star images. The Browser changes to show only the images that have the rating chosen from the search field pop-up menu. Choose five stars here. mm Choose Unrated or Better from the search field pop-up menu to display only images that are unrated or better.
Reject images 1 Select the Wyoming 013 image and press 9 to reject the image. An X appears on the image to indicate that it has been rejected. 2 Select another image. The rejected image disappears from the Browser. (Other images in a stack that aren’t rejected still appear.) This is because the Browser is set to display images that are unrated or better, hiding rejected images. 3 To display the rejected image again, choose Show All from the search field pop-up menu.
Assigning Keywords to Images A once time-consuming task, assigning keywords is remarkably simplified using a Keywords HUD. You can easily select keywords and assign them to individual images and groups of images. The Keywords HUD is a floating window that contains a library of predefined keywords that you can assign to images. You can easily browse and search for keywords in the Keywords HUD, and you can also add your own keywords as well as remove keywords.
Try This Get to know the Keywords HUD 1 Click the Keywords button in the toolbar. The Keywords HUD appears. 2 Drag the Keywords HUD to a convenient location on the screen. 3 Scroll to view keywords in the HUD.
Select and apply keywords 1 Click the Browser button in the toolbar to get a better view of the images in the Wyoming project. 2 Enter “bir” in the Keywords HUD search field. Enter “bir” here. 3 When the Bird keyword appears in the HUD, drag the keyword from the Keywords HUD to the Wyoming 029 image. The Bird keyword is assigned to this image. 4 Open the Wyoming 001 stack, then Shift-click to select the three images in the stack. 5 Enter “water” in the Keywords HUD search field.
7 Select the Wyoming 013 stack, then Command-click the Wyoming 032 stack to select both stacks. 8 Enter “ani” in the Keywords HUD search field. 9 When the Animals keyword appears in the HUD, drag it to the Wyoming 013 image. The keyword Animals is assigned to the selected pick image in both stacks. (It is not assigned to the other unselected images in the stacks.) 10 Close the Keywords HUD.
View keywords assigned to an image mm Select the Wyoming 001 image, then click the Metadata tab at the top of the Library inspector. The Metadata inspector appears, showing the metadata, including keywords, assigned to the image. Try selecting other images to see the metadata assigned to them.
Key Concepts ÂÂ Stack: A group of images that can be collapsed or expanded in the Browser. Aperture can automatically create stacks based on the time interval in which a group of images was shot, and you can manually create stacks by selecting and grouping images yourself. ÂÂ Compare image: An image selected to be compared against other images in the Viewer. To select a compare image, select an image and press Return. Press Option-U to turn off the comparison feature.
Exploring Faces : 4 r e t pahC 4 You can quickly review images of people using the Aperture Faces feature. You can have Aperture quickly identify the people in your images using Faces, the Aperture technology that makes use of both face detection and face recognition. Rather than painstakingly comb through your image library, adding keywords to identify people, you can use the Faces feature in Aperture to perform this process.
Naming Faces Aperture automatically detects the faces in your images. You can then identify faces by selecting an image and assigning a name to the subject using the Name mode. Face label Aperture places a face label below a person’s face, and you can enter the person’s name. When you position the pointer over a face, a positioning box appears, framing the face.
Once you’ve named a person in one of your images, Aperture can present other suggested images of that person in the library. You can view suggested images of that person as well as confirmed images by selecting Faces in the Library inspector. The main window switches to Faces view. To show the confirmed and unnamed faces for any person, double-click the person’s snapshot in Faces view.
Getting Ready 1 Click the Library tab to display the Library inspector. 2 Click the Split View button in the toolbar to switch to the Split View layout. Try This View all the images that have a name assigned mm In the Library inspector, select Faces. The main window switches to Faces view, showing snapshots of all the people you’ve named in the Aperture library. Note: The images you see on your screen may be different from those shown here.
Faces that have not yet been named appear at the bottom of Faces view. You can assign names to the faces if you want. Assign a name to a face in Faces view 1 In Faces view, click the Show Unnamed Faces button. 2 Click the face label in the unnamed face image shown below. Enter a name here. 3 Enter the name “Ivana” and press Return. A snapshot for the newly named person appears at the top of Faces view.
Review the images of a particular person 1 In Faces view, double-click the Ivana snapshot. The Faces browser appears, showing all the images containing Ivana. In the bottom half of the Faces browser, Aperture displays all the suggested images of Ivana. Note: The images you see on your screen may be different from those shown here. 2 At the bottom of the Faces browser, click the Confirm Faces button.
3 To confirm that the correct person appears in an image, click the image. Click an image twice to indicate that this image is not of the suggested person. 4 When you have finished confirming images, click Done.
Assign a name to a face in a folder, project, or album 1 In the Library inspector, select the Elizabeth & Daniel project in the Weddings folder. 2 Select the 071014_King_0212 image in the Browser to assign it a name. Select this image.
3 Click the Name button in the toolbar. Aperture automatically places a face label below each face that it detects in the image. Name button Name Faces HUD 4 Click the bride’s face label on the left, enter the name “Elizabeth” in the text field, then press Return. 5 Click Done in the Name Faces HUD.
6 Click the Faces button in the toolbar (not the Faces item in the Library inspector). The main window switches to Faces view, showing people identified in the images in the selected folder, project, or album. Note: The images you see on your screen may be different from those shown here. Faces button 7 Experiment with assigning names and confirming images of Elizabeth.
Add more information about a person 1 Select Faces in the Library inspector. 2 Position the pointer over a person’s snapshot, then click the Info button that appears. Info button The Info HUD appears. 3 In the Info HUD, enter a full name and email address for the person, if you wish. You can enter a person’s Facebook email address, and the person will receive notification automatically when you use Aperture to publish the image to Facebook. You can also change the name associated with the face.
Key Concepts ÂÂ Face label: A label that names a person in a photo. You can enter a name in the face label, and Aperture identifies other faces in the library that match. ÂÂ Positioning box: A rectangle that is placed over the facial features of a person to identify the face. Aperture automatically places positioning boxes on faces that it detects, and you can add additional positioning boxes and face labels to name faces that Aperture didn’t detect (for example, faces shot at a severe angle).
Exploring Places : 5 r e t pahC 5 You can quickly find images taken in specific locations using the Aperture Places feature. You can organize images by the locations where they were shot using Places. If you have a GPS-enabled camera or iPhone, Aperture categorizes the images by location automatically. If you don’t have a GPS-enabled camera or iPhone, you can assign locations to your images manually. You can then easily review where your images were shot using Places view.
Working with Places View In Places view, the locations where your images were shot are represented by pins on a map.
Getting Ready mm In the Library inspector, select the Canadian Road Trip project in the Travel folder. Try This View the location of an image or group of images 1 Click the Places button in the toolbar. Places button The Places view map appears above the Browser. Red pins mark the locations where images or groups of images were shot. 2 In the Browser, select the first image, if it’s not already selected.
A location label appears above the red pin that marks the location where the image was shot.
View the images to which a particular location is assigned mm In Places view, select a red pin on the map. The image or images associated with the location marked by the pin are selected in the Browser. View the precise location of images grouped together in the same location pin mm In Places view, click a pin whose location label shows that multiple images are associated with that location, then click the location arrow that appears.
Change the zoom level of the map in Places view mm Double-click the map to zoom in one level. mm Drag the Zoom slider in the upper-left corner of the map to zoom in to or out of the map. mm Holding down Command, drag a box over the area you want to zoom in to. Change map views within Places view mm Click the Satellite button to show aerial imagery of the map. Select the Show Labels checkbox, which appears when the Satellite button is clicked, to show street names and other information.
Navigate within the map when it is zoomed in 1 Increase the zoom level until the Overview Map pane appears in the lower-right corner of the map. A red rectangle inside the Overview Map pane marks the current view. Drag the red rectangle to reposition the map view. 2 To reposition the view, drag the red rectangle so that it is positioned over the area you want to view.
Quickly view a location using the Places Path Navigator 1 Position the pointer over the Places Path Navigator and click the 5 Places pop-up menu to see its options. This pop-up menu lists locations on the map that have been assigned to images. 2 Click the Home button (with a house icon) to reset the map to the default view, then Choose Banff National Park from the 5 Places pop-up menu to see the pin locations of images that were shot in Banff National Park.
Quickly search for a location and assign it to an image 1 Select the image or images to which you want to assign a location. For now, select the Wyoming 032 image, an image of horses, in the Wyoming project in the Wildlife folder. 2 Enter a location in the Places view search field. Enter “Greybull.” 3 Select the Greybull, Wyoming location from the Google Results list. 4 Click Assign Location. A location label appears above a pin, marking the location you assigned to the selected image.
Manually assign a location to selected images 1 In the Library inspector, select the image or images to which you want to assign a location. For now, select the Wyoming 036 bison image in the Wyoming project in the Wildlife folder. 2 Adjust the map view to display the location you want. For now, simply zoom in to any location in Wyoming. 3 Drag the Wyoming 036 image from the Browser to that location on the map. A location label appears above a purple pin, marking the location assigned to the image.
Move a location pin, changing the location of all the associated images 1 In Places view, click the Move Pins button. The location pins turn purple, indicating that they can be moved. Move Pins button 2 Drag a pin to a different location, then click Done in the dialog that appears at the bottom of Places view.
Quickly assign a location to all versions in a project 1 In the Library inspector, select Projects. 2 Select the Elizabeth & Daniel project. 3 Click the Info button on the project. Info button The Info HUD appears.
4 In the Info HUD, click the Assign Location button. Assign Location button 5 In the dialog that appears, enter “White House” in the search field. You can enter a specific address or the name of a city, a town, or a significant geographical location such as a national park.
6 Select White House, Washington in the search results, then click Assign. 7 Click the close button in the Info HUD. Key Concepts ÂÂ Location label: A location label appears above a pin on the Places view map when you select the pin. The location label identifies the current location of the pin. If a location is associated with multiple images, you can click the location arrow on the right side of the label to zoom in to that location. ÂÂ Location pin: A pin that marks a location on the Places view map.
Exploring Adjustments : 6 r e t pahC 6 Aperture provides dozens of sophisticated adjustments that you can use to refine and provide professional polish to your images. You can adjust the exposure, contrast, white balance, color, saturation, and highlights and shadows of your images. You can remove red-eye, straighten image alignment, apply or remove vignettes, and change color images to black and white or sepia tone.
You use the Adjustments inspector to make adjustments to your images. The Adjustments inspector includes a default set of image adjustments, such as White Balance and Exposure. You can add other controls as you need them or modify the default set to always display your favorite adjustments. You add adjustments to the inspector by choosing adjustments from the Adjustments pop-up menu.
Aperture also provides access to adjustment controls in an Inspector HUD that you can position conveniently on the screen in Full Screen view. In this chapter, you’ll try applying several kinds of adjustments to images. Applying Adjustment Presets to Versions Aperture provides adjustment presets, or collections of saved adjustment settings, that you can apply to images. You choose these adjustment presets from the Presets pop-up menu in the Adjustments inspector. Choose adjustment presets here.
Getting Ready 1 In the Library inspector, select the Canadian Road Trip project in the Travel folder. 2 Click the Split View button in the toolbar. 3 Select the Canada 015 image. Select this image. You’ll make several versions of this image and apply adjustments to it.
Try This Create new versions of an image 1 With the Canada 015 image selected, choose Photos > New Version from Master. 2 Choose Photos > New Version from Master two more times to create four versions of the image, as shown below. Apply a Quick Fixes adjustment preset to an image 1 Select the second version of the Canada 015 image. 2 Click the Adjustments tab in the Inspector pane to display the Adjustments inspector. Adjustments tab Choose an adjustment preset here.
Aperture applies an adjustment that automatically enhances the image. Apply a Color adjustment preset to an image 1 Select the third version of the Canada 015 image. 2 Choose Color > Sepia Tone (High Contrast) from the Presets pop-up menu. Aperture applies a Sepia Tone adjustment preset to the image. Apply a Black & White adjustment preset to an image 1 Select the fourth version of the Canada 015 image. 2 Choose Black & White > Higher Contrast (Grade 2) from the Presets pop-up menu.
Making Adjustments in Full Screen View Full Screen view displays your images with a minimum of distractions on a solid background and can be used with one or two displays. Full Screen view is ideal for making changes and adjustments using Aperture heads-up displays (HUDs). One of the main HUDs used in Aperture is the Inspector HUD. In this section, you’ll use the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD to change exposure.
You use the Exposure adjustment controls to set exposure, recover highlight details, and adjust the blacks of images in shadow. You can also correct the exposure of images shot in difficult lighting conditions. Feel free to make any adjustments you like to the sample images; you can always simply turn off or remove the adjustments later. Thoroughly teaching the use of Aperture adjustments is beyond the scope of this short guide.
Use the illustration below to locate the items you want to use. Position the pointer at the top of the screen to display the toolbar. Position the pointer at the bottom of the screen to display the filmstrip.
Try This Use the filmstrip to display images 1 Click an image in the filmstrip. (Position the pointer at the bottom of the screen to display the filmstrip, if it isn’t shown.) 2 Press the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys to select different images. 3 Select the first photo of Ivana to make adjustments to it. Display the toolbar mm Position the pointer at the top of the screen until the toolbar appears. Click the Always Show Toolbar control to keep the toolbar on the screen.
Display the Inspector HUD in Full Screen view 1 Click the Inspector HUD button in the toolbar to show the Inspector HUD. Inspector HUD button 2 Click the Adjustments button at the top of the Inspector HUD to show the Adjustments pane. Always Show Inspector HUD control Adjustments button 3 Click the Always Show Inspector HUD control to position the HUD where you can easily select and change options while viewing their effect on an image.
Change an image with the Exposure adjustment 1 Click the disclosure triangle for the Exposure adjustment to display the Exposure adjustment controls, if necessary. 2 In the Exposure adjustment area, drag the Exposure slider left or right to set an exposure level that you like, or click a location along the slider control to move the slider to that point.
Turn the Exposure adjustment on or off mm Select or deselect the Exposure checkbox to view the cumulative effect of the Exposure adjustment on your image. mm To reset the Exposure adjustment to its default settings, click the Reset button.
Brushing On Adjustments Brushed adjustments allow you to change specific areas of an image. For example, you can use the Dodge adjustment to lighten areas in a portrait.
In this section, you’ll use the Dodge adjustment to lighten the irises of Ivana’s eyes. Lighten this area. Lighten this area. You begin by choosing the Dodge adjustment from the Adjustments pop-up menu in the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD. Aperture opens the Brush HUD for the Dodge adjustment, which allows you to set the brush size, softness, and strength.
Try This Add the Dodge adjustment to the Adjustments pane 1 Choose Quick Brushes > Dodge (Lighten) from the Adjustments pop-up menu in the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD. Dodge (Lighten) adjustment 2 When the Brush HUD for the Dodge adjustment appears, drag it to a convenient position on the screen. This HUD allows you to control how the brush strokes are applied to an image. 3 Set the controls of the Brush HUD to match the settings shown in the illustration below.
Apply the Dodge adjustment 1 Position the brush pointer on the bridge of Ivana’s nose, then press Z to zoom in to Ivana’s face. A navigation box appears on the right side of the image. 2 Position the pointer over the navigation box until it expands, then set the zoom percentage to 70% by clicking the left arrow in the Zoom value slider or dragging in the value field. Click this button to decrease the zoom percentage.
3 Drag in a circular motion to apply brush strokes to each iris, as shown in the illustration below. Drag the brush in a circular motion to lighten this area. Drag the brush in a circular motion to lighten this area. Continue to apply brush strokes to each iris until you’re satisfied with your changes. 4 Press Z to zoom out. 5 After applying brush strokes to the irises, drag the Amount slider in the Dodge adjustment controls to adjust the lightness of both eyes.
6 To see the effect of the Dodge adjustment, select and deselect the Dodge checkbox in the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD to turn the adjustment on and off. 7 Close the Inspector HUD and Brush HUD. 8 Press F to exit Full Screen view. Key Concepts ÂÂ Heads-up display (HUD): A floating window that you can move to a convenient position on the screen and use to change images. ÂÂ Inspector HUD: A HUD that provides library, metadata, and adjustment options.
Sharing Images Online : 7 r e t pahC 7 Aperture makes it easy to share your images with the photo-sharing websites Flickr and Facebook. In Aperture, you can publish items from the Aperture library to your Flickr and Facebook accounts. Images placed in Flickr and Facebook albums in Aperture are automatically published to the corresponding websites. In this chapter, you’ll publish sample images to a Flickr account. If you don’t have an account, you can create a free Flickr account.
Getting Ready 1 In the Browser, select any image, then click the Flickr button in the toolbar. The Flickr setup dialog appears. 2 Click Set Up. Your web browser opens and displays the Flickr sign-in page. 3 Do one of the following: ÂÂ If you have a Flickr account: Sign in to your account. Follow the instructions that appear. Close your web browser. ÂÂ If you don’t have a Flickr account but want to sign up: Click Sign Up. Then enter the information required to create your new Flickr account.
Publishing Images to Flickr You start by selecting the images that you want to share. You then click the Flickr button in the toolbar. You specify information about the Flickr album that you want to create, and Aperture then creates the album in the Library inspector and uploads your items to Flickr.
Try This Create a Flickr album 1 In the Library inspector, select the Canadian Road Trip project in the Travel folder. Then select four or five images in the project. 2 Click the Flickr button in the toolbar. 3 In the dialog that appears, choose New Set from the Set pop-up menu. 4 Enter a name for your Flickr album in the Set Name field. Aperture enters the name “Canadian Road Trip” for you, so you can use that name, if you wish.
6 Click Publish. Aperture publishes the album to Flickr, and the new Flickr album appears in the Flickr section of the Library inspector. Sync button Flickr album 7 If you wish, drag more images into your new Flickr album in the Library inspector, then select it. Depending on the speed of your Internet connection, you may have to wait a minute or two for the images to finish uploading.
8 To see the published images, choose Visit Flickr Gallery from the Flickr pop-up menu in the tool strip. Flickr displays the images that you published. You can now share your images with others by inviting them to view your Flickr account. You can also see the keywords and location information automatically transferred with your Aperture images to Flickr.
Key Concepts ÂÂ Flickr: Flickr is a free photo-sharing website that allows you to upload and share photos with others on the network. ÂÂ Facebook: Facebook is a free social networking website that connects people and allows you to upload photos, share links and videos, and exchange information with others on the network. ÂÂ Flickr and Facebook albums: These types of Aperture albums hold images that are uploaded to your photo-sharing website account.
Working with an Aperture Book : 8 r e t pahC 8 With Aperture, you can create books of your images and have them professionally printed and bound. Next, you’ll work with a sample Aperture book. Because Aperture provides many professional-level options for creating books, this chapter provides only brief introductions to the features. Exploring an Aperture Book Aperture provides options for creating print books in a variety of designs.
You use the Book Layout Editor to set up the page structure of your book and place images and text on the pages. Try This Work with a book album mm In the Library inspector, select the Exploring Canada book album in the Canadian Road Trip project in the Travel folder.
The Book Layout Editor appears above the Browser, which displays the images included in the album. Select the page you want to work on here. Selected page Drag images from the Browser to the selected page. The Pages pane on the left shows thumbnails of your book pages. You can scroll through the thumbnails and click one to select a page to work on. A larger view of the selected page appears on the right.
Select pages to display mm Click a thumbnail page in the Pages pane on the left to display a large view of the page on the right. Drag the Display Size slider to zoom in to or out of the page. Display Size slider Place images mm Drag an image from the Browser into a photo box on the displayed page. Drag a different image into the same photo box. Double-click the image and change the scale using the Image Scale HUD.
Add text 1 In the Pages pane, select the page that holds the inside cover text. Note: The images you see on your screen may be different from those shown here. Select this page. 2 Click the text box on the page. With text selected, enter text of your own. Enter text here.
3 Choose a text style from the Set Text Style pop-up menu. Set Text Style pop-up menu You can also press Command-T to open the Fonts window and select different fonts.
Learning About Aperture Books To create your own book, you select the images that you want to place in the book, and then you create a new book album by choosing Book from the New pop-up menu in the toolbar. When you create a new book album, you can choose a book theme that determines the overall look of the book. Aperture provides a variety of professionally designed book themes.
You can apply a master page design to any selected page. Pages appear with gray photo boxes to hold images, and text boxes to hold text. To add images, you drag them into the photo boxes from the Browser. To add text, you select a text box and type or paste text into it. Selected text box If you prefer, you can build a book page by page. You can add a new page to your book, choose a master page design, fill in images and text, and then create the next page, repeating the procedure for each page you add.
In addition, you can add maps to your pages that automatically show where the images in the book were taken. You can add a map to a selected page and have it show the locations of images that you place around the map. When your book is complete, you can purchase printed and bound copies from the Apple print vendor for a fee. If you prefer to print your book yourself, you can print your book using your own printer or export your book as a PDF file that you can send to a print shop for printing.
Key Concepts ÂÂ Book album: An album that allows you to create a professionally designed book and add your own text and images to it. ÂÂ Book Layout Editor: The Book Layout Editor allows you to lay out books, placing images and text within predesigned pages. Next, you’ll explore how to present your images in slideshows.
Creating an Aperture Slideshow : 9 r e t pahC 9 With Aperture, you can present images and even video and audio clips in slideshows. You can choose among many slideshow themes, add music, and control numerous aspects of how images are displayed. Next, you’ll view a sample slideshow to see some of the advanced features you can use, and then you’ll create a simple slideshow yourself.
Getting Ready mm In the Library inspector, open the Photojournalism folder, if necessary, then select the Sierra on Competition slideshow album in the Sports Profile project. The main window changes to display the Slideshow Editor.
Try This Play a slideshow in full-screen mode mm Click the Play Slideshow button in the Slideshow Editor. Notice that when the video clip appears, it begins playing automatically, and the slideshow continues after the clip is done. Play Slideshow button mm Press the Space bar to pause the slideshow. Press the Space bar again to resume playing. mm Press the Right Arrow or Left Arrow key to move forward or backward through the slideshow. mm Press Esc (Escape) to stop the slideshow.
4 In the dialog that appears, enter “Sierra Plays Hard” in the Slideshow Name field. 5 Select the Scrapbook theme for your slideshow in the list of themes, and watch as Aperture demonstrates what the slideshow will look like. 6 Select the Sliding Panels theme for your slideshow, and watch as Aperture demonstrates what the slideshow will look like. 7 Select the Watercolor Panels theme for your slideshow, and watch as Aperture demonstrates what the slideshow will look like.
8 Select the Snapshots theme for your slideshow, then click Choose Theme. Aperture creates a new slideshow album in the Library inspector and opens the Slideshow Editor above the Browser, which displays the images in the album. Preview a slideshow in the Slideshow Editor mm Click the Preview Slideshow button in the Slideshow Editor. Press the Space bar to stop the slideshow.
Change the order of slides in the slideshow 1 In the Browser, drag the images into a different order. 2 Play the slideshow to see the difference. Change the theme of the slideshow 1 Click the Theme button. 2 In the dialog that appears, select the Classic theme in the themes list, then click Choose Theme. 3 Play the slideshow to see the effect of the theme change.
Change the transitions used between images 1 Click the Slideshow Settings button to display the options for customizing your slideshow. If the Default Settings pane is not already shown, click the Default Settings button.
2 Choose the type of transition you want from the Transition pop-up menu. Transition pop-up menu 3 Play the slideshow to see the effect of the transition you chose. Change the timing of the slides mm Change the value in the “Play slide for” value slider to specify the length of time each slide should appear.
Add music to the slideshow 1 Click the Audio Browser button to display the options for selecting music. Audio Browser button 2 Navigate to the music you want played during the slideshow. For example, select the Theme Music folder, then select a song and drag it to the Browser. You can drag the song to a gray area of the Browser to add the song to the entire slideshow. You can also drag the song to an image to start the song at a specific point in the slideshow. Position the song where you want it to start.
Export a slideshow for others to view 1 Click the Export button to export your slideshow as a movie that others can view on their computers. 2 In the export dialog, enter a name for the slideshow movie in the Save As field. Enter a name here. Choose a slideshow movie format here. 3 Choose the format of the slideshow movie from the “Export for” pop-up menu. You can choose formats that allow your slideshow to be viewed on standard or high definition TV, Apple TV, iPad, iPod, iPhone, and more.
4 Click Export. 5 After Aperture finishes exporting the slideshow, open iTunes and click Movies to locate your slideshow in the iTunes library. Play the slideshow movie you just created. Key Concepts ÂÂ Slideshow album: An album that enables you to display images and play video clips and audio clips during a slideshow. When you select a slideshow album, the Slideshow Editor appears, allowing you to play the slideshow on your computer and customize its settings.
Printing from Aperture : 0 1 r e t pahC 10 This chapter introduces some simple options you have for printing single images and contact sheets. If you’re not set up to print images yet, you can read these instructions and try them out later, or try printing some of the sample images from the Elizabeth & Daniel project. After you select images, you can choose File > Print Images to open the Print dialog, which provides a variety of options for printing your images.
Exploring Printing You use the Print dialog to specify the printing options you want. You can print a single image per page, or you can print contact sheets of your images. Select Standard to print a single image per page.
When you print contact sheets, Aperture does all the layout work for you. You select the number of pages you want or the number of columns that you want on a page, and Aperture adjusts the size of the images based on your settings. Select Contact Sheets to print a contact sheet. Getting Ready 1 Select the Elizabeth & Daniel project in the Weddings folder in the Library inspector. 2 Select an image in the Browser. (Any image will do.) 3 Choose File > Print Image.
5 Choose your printer, then click Add. 6 Click Cancel. Now Aperture is ready to print using your printer. Try This Print a single image 1 Select the 071014_King_0582 image in the Elizabeth & Daniel project. 2 Choose File > Print Image. 3 In the Print dialog, select Standard in the preset list. Note: If the image isn’t rotated correctly, choose Portrait from the Orientation pop-up menu. Select Standard to print a single image per page.
4 Choose the printer you want to use from the Printer pop-up menu. Important: You must have the correct printer driver installed on your computer in order to use your printer. See the documentation that came with your printer for information about installing and updating the necessary printer software. 5 Explore the effects of these printing options: ÂÂ Paper Size pop-up menu: Choose a paper size from the list of available sizes. ÂÂ Orientation pop-up menu: Choose portrait orientation, if necessary.
6 Click the right and left arrows in the dialog to navigate forward or backward through the images to review them. Navigation arrow buttons 7 Click Print. 8 In the dialog that appears, click Print to print your images. Print a contact sheet of images 1 In the Browser, select all the images in the Elizabeth & Daniel project by pressing Command-A. 2 Choose File > Print Images.
3 Select Contact Sheets in the preset list. Aperture is now set to print multiple images per page. Select Contact Sheets. 4 Choose Landscape from the Orientation pop-up menu. 5 Explore the effects of these printing options: ÂÂ Metadata View pop-up menu: Choose a metadata preset to specify the image metadata that you want printed for each image. ÂÂ Rows and Columns value sliders: Use the value sliders to specify the number of rows and columns of images that should be printed on the page.
Learning About Printing You’ve now used the simplest printing options in Aperture to print single photos and photos on a contact sheet. Aperture provides many more options that allow you to customize the look and layout of your printed images. To explore these options on your own, click the More Options button in the Print dialog. The Print dialog expands to show options for customizing the layout, margins, image adjustments, image display, metadata display, and more.
Key Concepts ÂÂ Print preset: A combination of print settings that you can choose whenever you want to invoke those settings for printing. Aperture comes with predefined print presets for printing single images and contact sheets. You can also create and save presets with your own combination of print settings for the types of printing that you do. ÂÂ Standard preset: A print preset that provides settings appropriate for printing single images.
Getting Answers : 1 1 r e t pahC 11 Now that you’ve been introduced to the basics of Aperture, you probably have further questions about how to use Aperture in your work. Use Aperture Help to find the answers you need. Exploring Aperture Help Aperture Help provides comprehensive explanations and instructions for using Aperture features. Try This Open the Aperture User Manual mm In Aperture, choose Help > Aperture Help, then click the link to the user manual. Browse topics that interest you.
Search for Apple service and support information mm In Aperture, choose Help > Aperture Support. Browse topics that interest you. Review discussions on Aperture discussion forums mm In Aperture choose Help > Aperture Help, then click Aperture Discussions in the list of additional resources. Browse topics that interest you. View the Aperture online video tutorials mm Open Safari and go to http://www.apple.
