Apple Aperture 3.5 User Manual

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Chapter 7

Make image adjustments

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Adjustment

Function

Chromatic Aberration

Corrects chromatic aberration, produced by certain
lenses during shooting.

Devignette

Corrects a vignette created when the image was shot.

Noise Reduction

Reduces digital noise in an image.

White Balance

Sets an image’s white balance by evaluating the
image for natural gray or skin tone in identified faces,
as well as by adjusting the color temperature and tint.

Exposure

Adjusts exposure, recovery, black point, and
brightness.

Enhance

Adjusts contrast, definition, saturation, and vibrancy,
as well as black, gray, and white tints.

Curves

Selectively remaps the tonal range of the image by
applying a curve from input to output.

Highlights & Shadows

Selectively adjusts the exposure in the shadows and
highlights of an image.

Levels

Selectively adjusts the tonal range of an image.

Color

Adjusts hue, saturation, and luminance on a color-by-
color basis, as well as chromatic range.

Black & White

Selectively controls the source red, green, and blue
color channels when a color image is converted to
grayscale.

Color Monochrome

Desaturates the image and applies a color tint of your
choosing to the midtones.

Sepia Tone

Changes a color image to sepia, allowing you to
desaturate the image to the level of sepia coloring
you want.

Edge Sharpen

Sharpens the image based on luminance using
multiple sharpening passes.
A separate Sharpen adjustment is also available to
preserve sharpening adjustments made in earlier
versions of Aperture.

Vignette

Applies a vignette effect to the image.

Note: You can also modify how OS X decodes RAW files using the RAW Fine Tuning controls, and
you can modify iPhoto effects for images you’re working with in iPhoto. For more information
about decoding RAW files, see

RAW Fine Tuning controls overview

on page 334. For more

information about working with iPhoto, see

Apply iPhoto effects to images

on page 240.

Quick Brush adjustments
You can brush the following Quick Brush adjustments on specific areas of an image. For
instructions, see

Apply Quick Brush adjustments

on page 231 or the topic for a particular

Quick Brush adjustment.

Quick Brush

Function

Skin Smoothing

Smoothes people’s skin by subtly blurring wrinkles
and skin pores in brushed areas of an image.

Dodge (Lighten)

Dodges (lightens) brushed areas of an image.

Burn (Darken)

Burns (darkens) brushed areas of an image.

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