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Mastering Apple Aperture

You're reading from   Mastering Apple Aperture Apple Aperture is powerful, fully-featured photo editing software and keen photographers, whether pro or enthusiast, will benefit from this fantastic, step-by-step guide that covers the most advanced topics.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849693561
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Thomas Fitzgerald Thomas Fitzgerald
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Preface 1. Advanced Importing and Organizing FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Adjustments 3. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Curves 4. Aperture in Action 5. Extending Aperture 6. Exporting and Outputting to the Web 7. Making Metadata Work for You 8. Getting Better Prints from Aperture Index

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As we have seen in the previous chapters, Aperture is a very powerful piece of software. You can accomplish quite a lot within the application, but it does have its limits. The tools inside Aperture are generally designed for making broad edits to your image, and while you can selectively edit with brushes, if you need to get into precise pixel-level manipulations, you just can't do it within Aperture. So, for example, while we previously looked at how good Aperture's cloning and healing tool is, there are also some limits as to what you can achieve, so for complex edits you may need to use an application, such as Photoshop. There are also some important image correction techniques that Aperture can't do either, or is not very good at. For example, Aperture has no tools for lens distortion correction. For this, you will have to use a plugin. Aperture's noise reduction functionality is also pretty weak compared to its competitors, but there are...

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