Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 2 | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ben Long, Richard Harrington, Orlando Luna
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 6626
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Dvdr
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0321539931
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780321539939
ASIN: 0321539931
Publication Date: May 16, 2008
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Product Description
Fully updated for Aperture 2, this comprehensive book-DVD training combo starts with the basics of image management and takes you step by step all the way through Aperture's powerful photo-editing, image-retouching, proofing, publishing, and archiving features. Aperture 2's new features are completely covered, including a new RAW-image processing engine, a streamlined interface, powerful new adjustment tools, and added integration with Mac OS X and other Apple products for instant web publishing and one-click portfolio syncing. Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 2 delivers comprehensive training - the equivalent of a two-day course - in one project-based book. You'll learn time-saving techniques for sorting, ranking, and organizing images, effective methods for correcting and enhancing images, plus efficient ways to display images for client review, apply metadata, update your online portfolio automatically, and much more. Real-world exercises feature professional photography from a variety of genres, including photo-journalism, sports, wedding, commercial, and portraiture. All the files you need to complete the exercises are included on the DVD.
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Excellent Training for Aperture December 24, 2008
This book is an excellent starting point to learn Aperture. Apple's site has some pretty spiffy video tutorials, but when you want to get your feet wet, this is a great book to begin the process. Being Apple Certified, I am confident that I'm being taught in a way that the lessons will stick. And, I find the author's are knowledgeable not only in the software, but photography. They are able to blend what they know in both genre, making this knowledge accessible to everyday joes. So, to sum it up, not only did I learn the application, buy I learned the why's. Probably the best advice I gleaned from the book is not to 'overdo' the control. Most changes you make to your photograph are subtle, but that subtlety make all the difference in bringing your photo to life. Aperture is amazing software and this book demystifies it.
 DVD DEAD ON ARRIVAL December 13, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
DVD IS DEAD ON ARRIVAL.
IT DOES NOT BOOT UP EITHER ON MY MAC OR PC
 Aperture 2 December 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great study guide. The combination of great CD picture files and well written text worked really well to give me the hands-on I was looking for. 5 stars is not enough.
Must-have training if you own the software October 12, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
You wouldn't try to teach yourself to drive by reading the manual that came with your car would you? If you have the software you need this training
Aperture 2 step by step October 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is the official Apple Pro training course for Aperture, Apple's all-in-one post-production tool for photographers.
It's a book-DVD training combination which starts with the basics of image management and takes you step by step all the way through Aperture 2's powerful photo-editing, image-retouching, proofing, publishing, and archiving features.
The book is designed to teach you how to use Aperture in the context of a professional workflow, using 12 project-based, step-by-step lessons and accompanying media files. It's almost 100% hands on.
Running through all the lessons will take you about 17 hours.
It's divided into three main sections: importing and organising, image editing, and printing and publishing. The first topics are exploring the Aperture workflow, evaluating images: compare and select, and organising your project. The image editing section is sub-divided into basic edits, working with RAW images, correcting tone, correcting colour, and repairing and enhancing your images. Finally, section three covers delivering images for client review, delivering final images, showcasing and promoting you work, and Aperture automation.
I have worked through the first three lessons myself. The DVD material is easy to use. Lessons are structured very clearly in manageable steps with brief, clear explanations about the context of what you are doing. I liked the lesson review questions and answers at the end of each lesson. At the beginning of each lesson there's a list of lesson files, time and goals spelling out how long it will take to complete the lesson, followed by a list of what is to be achieved.
This is a comprehensive, practical and well organised training course written by those who know what they are talking about. If you take the trouble to complete all 12 lessons, you'll find yourself amply rewarded: perhaps even an Aperture whiz.
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