Table of Contents

Chapter One: What Is Aperture?

What’s in This Book

What You’ll Need

Chapter Two: Aperture Philosophy and Interface

Thinking Different

Your image editing appliance

The Aperture Library

Masters and versions

Viewing the library

Aperture Interface Basics

The Browser pane

The Viewer pane

The toolbar

The Inspector pane

The Adjustments panel

The Metadata panel

The control bar

Window layouts

Deleting items from the library

Favorites

Heads-up displays

Selecting Images

Selecting a project to view

Viewing multiple projects

Selecting images

Making selections using the keyboard

The primary select

Sorting images in the Browser pane

Viewer modes

Using the Loupe

Zooming

Working in Full-Screen Mode

Working with Albums

Creating an album

Adding images to an album

Viewing an album

Copying an image from one album to another

Printing a List of Keyboard Shortcuts

Wrapping Up

Chapter Three: Importing

Importing from a Camera or Media Card

Selecting images for import

Adjusting the time stamp of imported images

Renaming images during import

Defining custom naming presets

Adding metadata

Stacking

Performing the import operation

Canceling an import session

Importing Image Files

Importing folders as projects

Drag-and-drop importing

Importing raw files

Importing an iPhoto Library

Working with the Aperture Library

Library architecture

Extracting your original images from the Aperture library

Changing the location of the library

Creating multiple libraries

Spanning a single library across multiple drives

Handling a missing drive

Restoring to a single-drive library

Wrapping Up

Chapter Four: Organizing, Comparing, and Sorting

Defining a Workflow

Working with Keywords and Metadata

Defining keywords

Creating keywords

Adding keywords to an image

Adding keywords using the Keywords HUD

Adding keywords using the Metadata inspector

Adding keywords using control bar buttons

Creating a keyword button set

Switching between button sets

Adding keywords to multiple images

Editing other metadata

Lifting and stamping metadata

Stamping multiple images

Copying and pasting metadata

Building metadata template images

Changing metadata with Batch Change

Controlling the metadata display

Viewing image tooltips

Viewing metadata overlays

Changing the metadata overlay display

Defining a metadata set

Using sort groups

Working with Stacks

Stack basics

Creating a stack

Adding to a stack

Removing images from a stack

Moving images within a stack

Moving a stack

Unstacking

Auto-stacking

Picking and comparing

Selecting a new pick

Using Stack view

Using stacks

Adding a stack to an album

Defining an album pick

Stop thinking about your images like documents

Comparing Images

Rating Images

Strategies for Controlling Aperture

Rating, sorting, and comparing using the mouse

Rating, sorting, and comparing using the keyboard

Using modifier keys

Finding and Filtering Using the Query HUD

Working with your search results

Finding shutter speed

Finding the aperture

Finding duplicates

Working with Smart Albums

Wrapping Up

Chapter Five: Image Editing

Nondestructive Editing and Adjustments

Rotating, Cropping, and Straightening

Rotating

Cropping

Adjusting a crop

Editing a crop numerically

Copying and deleting a crop

Straightening

Touching Up

Using Spot and Patch

Removing a spot

Patching an image

Adjusting your spot and patch corrections

Adjusting Exposure and Contrast

Using the histogram

Performing image analysis

Adjusting exposure

Using the Exposure slider

Using the Saturation slider

Using the Brightness slider

Using the Contrast slider

Highlighting hot areas

Adjusting levels

Adjusting the black point

Adjusting the white point

Adjusting the midpoint

Using Auto Levels

Adjusting quarter tones

Adjusting highlights and shadows

Adjusting shadows with Highlights and Shadows

Adjusting highlights with Highlights and Shadows

Using advanced controls

Using Highlights and Shadows to apply fill flash

Using Highlights and Shadows to reduce contrast

Adjusting Color

Adjusting white balance

Adjusting white balance automatically

Adjusting white balance manually

Using the Tint wheels

Adjusting levels for individual channels

Converting to Black and White

Adjusting the monochrome mix

Using Color Monochrome

Combining Edits

Maximizing performance

Creating New Versions

Keeping Your Edits in Check

Sharpening

Reducing Noise

Deleting Images

Undeleting images

Wrapping Up

Chapter Six: Editing Raw Files

What Happens When You Shoot Raw

How Aperture Converts a Raw Image

Choosing an Aperture Raw Converter

Fine-Tuning a Raw Image

Adjusting White Balance

Using Auto Exposure

Performing Highlight Recovery

Exploring overexposure

Recovering highlights

When to adjust exposure and when to adjust brightness

Exposing for Raw

Linear data revisited

Wrapping Up

Chapter Seven: Working with an External Editor

Defining an External Editor

Understanding the Round Trip

Organizing Your Edits

Applying edits in Aperture to an image you’ve already edited externally

Re-editing an image you’ve already edited externally

Using Photoshop layers

Strategies for working with external editors

Moving images out of Aperture

Wrapping Up

Chapter Eight: Output

Defining Presets

Naming files

Exporting Images

Exporting a master

Exporting a version

Creating E-mail and Web Output

Creating a Web gallery

Customizing a Web gallery

Creating a Smart Web Gallery

Creating a Web journal

Customizing a Web journal

Building a journal page

Adding journal pages

Customizing Aperture’s templates

Creating Slideshows

Configuring slideshow presets

Creating Light Tables

Printing a light table

Creating Books

Creating a book

Creating a book layout

Choosing a new master page design

Editing text

Adding images

Adding a photo filter

Autofilling book pages

Customizing book pages

Changing the layout of text blocks

Adding a photo box

Adding a metadata box

Changing the page background

Saving custom pages

Outputting your book

Printing

Using onscreen proofing

Installing printer profiles

Selecting a profile

Toggling onscreen proofing

Using the Print dialog box

Configuring the print controls

Printing multiple images on one page

Saving a preset

Printing strategies

Ordering Prints

Wrapping Up

Chapter Nine: Putting It All Together

Performing Automatic Backup

Creating a vault

Updating a vault

Restoring from a vault

Performing Manual Backup

Putting It All Together

Index