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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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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

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

Brushes-tips and tricks


Brushes are one of Aperture's most powerful features. Brushes are thought of as being Aperture's way of performing selective adjustments, but a better way to think of them is as a way to mask individual adjustments. As one can have a great number of adjustments, each of these adjustments can be masked so that they only apply to a portion of your image.

You can add a brush mask for almost any adjustment, with the exception of the RAW Fine Tuning brick and the Exposure brick. See the following steps:

Adding brushes to an adjustment

To add brushes to an adjustment we need to carry out the following steps:

  1. From any adjustment brick go to the pop-up menu.

  2. If you want to apply brushes to a selective area choose Brush <Adjustment> in (where Adjustment will be the name of the particular adjustment).

  3. If you want to apply an adjustment to most of the image but want a small area without the adjustment applied choose Brush Adjustments Away. Or to remove a brush completely, and...

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