Apple Aperture 3.5 - Manual (Page 14)

Chapter 1 Aperture basics 14
Aperture also provides several tools to help you organize a large portfolio of photos. You can
compare high-resolution photos side by side, group similar photos in stacks, rate photos, identify
people in your photos using Faces, and apply location information to your photos using Places.
You can also apply keywords and other metadata to your photos to make them easier to find.
Adjust your images
You can enhance your photos using a set of powerful, nondestructive adjustments such as Crop,
Straighten, Exposure, White Balance, Levels, Curves, Highlights & Shadows, Vignette, and more. In
addition, you can use brushes to apply or remove adjustments selectively, affecting only certain
parts of an image.
To streamline your workflow, you can save adjustment settings as presets (collections of saved
settings) and apply a combination of image adjustments to one or more photos in a single step.
Share your photos
When it’s time to show your work to others, Aperture provides many options for distributing and
sharing your photos:
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Send your photos to Flickr and Facebook.
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Present your photos in multimedia slideshows.
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Create premium-quality photo books.
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Print high-resolution photos.
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Export your photos in a variety of file formats.
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Email your photos directly from Aperture.
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Publish your photos in web galleries and web journals as HTML that you can upload to a
web server.
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Use My Photo Stream to make your photos available on all your devices—including iOS
devices, Mac computers, PCs, and Apple TV—and use iCloud Photo Sharing to share photos
with friends and family members who have iCloud accounts.
Back up your work
After you import photos from your camera and erase memory cards in preparation for the next
shoot, Aperture stores a single copy of each photo on your hard disk. It’s important to make
backup copies of these photos to safeguard your portfolio. You can set Aperture to back up your
managed images (images that are stored in the Aperture library) and all information associated
with them, such as keywords and image adjustment settings, on vaults located on hard disk
drives. You can also set Aperture to automatically back up your photos during import.
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