Aperture : Introduction

This is an Apple authorised course designed for professional photographers and serious amateurs who want to master this revolutionary application for managing, editing and archiving digital photographs.

This comprehensive course takes you step by step through Aperture's powerful photo editing, image retouching, image recognition, proofing, publishing and archiving features.

Pre-Course Requirements:
You need no previous experience to attend this course.

• Introduction
  • Aperture workflow and layouts
  • Importing from a memory card
  • Understanding Camera RAW
  • Using Masters and Versions
  • Rating, editing and outputting images
  
  Evaluating images
  • Using Quick Preview
  • Grouping images into Stacks
  • Using the Centered Loupe
  • Assigning ratings
  • Using Faces to recognise people
  • Using GPS location data to explore photos by location
  • Assigning a location to an image
  
  Organising your project
  • Using keywords
  • Using the Metadata inspector
  • Sorting images dynamically
  • Search queries
  
  Editing your images
  • Editing workflow
  • White balancing
  • Sensor dust and red-eye removal
  • Working with RAW files
  • Using the Recovery slider
  • Using the Exposure slider
  
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• Correcting tone
  • Adjusting tone before colour
  • Reading a histogram
  • Setting levels
  • Adjusting highlights and shadows
  • Using adjustment presets
  
  Correcting colour
  • Adjusting white balance with the Eyedropper
  • Lift and stamp
  • Round-trip editing
  
  Enhancing images
  • Using the Retouch brush
  • Using non-destructive, edge-aware brushes in Aperture
  • Noise reduction
  • Sharpening images
  • Creating multimedia shows
  
  Questions and answers