Apple Aperture Getting Started - Manual (Page 12)

12 Chapter 1 An Overview of Aperture
Step 3: Photo edit
For this stage, you’ll sort through your images and choose which images you want to
work with and further adjust. You can add keywords, captions, or other text to your
images to help you sort and organize them, as well as apply ratings and stack related
images together.
You can also group images to further organize them. You can find images using the
Query HUD (heads-up display), a floating panel with search options. You can also create
containers, such as folders and albums, within projects to further manage your images.
Aperture also uses Smart Albums, which are albums that can be dynamically generated
and updated based on specific search criteria you specify in the Query HUD. This can
save you time and effort finding just the right images.
Step 4: Apply adjustments
With Aperture, you can make adjustments to images, including adjusting exposure,
levels, and white balance and eliminating red-eye. You can also crop, rotate, and resize
images. If you want to make adjustments that involve compositing, you can easily work
with your images in another application, known as an external editor, such as Adobe
Photoshop; adjusted images automatically appear in Aperture when the image is saved.
You can apply different adjustments to multiple versions of the same image.
Step 5: Distribute your images
Aperture provides several options for distributing your images. You can print images
directly to a printer, export images for delivery to a professional photo lab, or create a
book of images for printing using the printing service supplied by your .Mac account.
Aperture also includes tools that allow you to publish photos on the web and create
online journals without having to know any HTML. You can also use slideshows to
present work to clients or provide a background of images and music during an event.
Step 6: Back up your images
You can make a backup copy of your Aperture Library and store it in one or more vaults
located on external hard disk drives—usually FireWire drives. The Library includes your
projects, digital master files, and any versions you’ve created.