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Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: joeholmes joeholmes. I want to create a slideshow in Aperture 3 in which I manually navigate through the slides, with nice transitions. Some chores are computationally difficult, especially as more effects are layered on.
And tasks that combine multiple images--high-dynamic range HDR photography and panorama stitching, for example--don't mesh easily with an approach that's fundamentally about changes to a single image. Aperture editing The Aperture interface consists of a central working area surrounded by controls. Two basic keyboard commands rapidly cycle you through the major modes you'll need. Typing "w" switches the major control to the library for file management, then the metadata panel for keywords and the like, then the adjustments panel for editing photos.
Typing "v" cycles the central view through an array of thumbnails, a single photo, and a combination with a photo at the top and the thumbnails in a filmstrip. Photo editing is the core of the Aperture experience.
New features--in particular the ability to brush on a wide range of changes--mean Aperture users won't have to detour as often into other software such as Photoshop to get the look they want.
Previously, Aperture permitted only changes that affected the whole image, but the local brushes are much more powerful. The Aperture user interface is festooned with gewgaws: gears to tweak control settings, arrows to revert adjustments, icons in text input fields to filter searches, buttons to issue commands.
It's all there for a reason, though, and the advanced options generally don't intrude. It can be easy to get a bit lost at first, when clicking around through albums, smart projects, faces modes, and search filters. My preferred editing method photos was in the new full-screen mode: Typing "f" makes the clutter vanish. I'd usually then hit "h" to activate just the adjustment panel. Some like it floating freely, but I prefer to dock it so the image won't be covered up.
If you leave it freely floating, use shift-option-drag to adjust the sliders and all else but that slider will disappear. A switch in the upper right corner will dock the panel to the nearest edge. Two nitpicks about full-screen view: when cropping a photo, dragging down to the bottom of the screen will pop up the filmstrip panel that blocks your photo, and the "processing" indicator is invisible unless you show or dock that filmstrip.
Adobe's Lightroom 2 beat Aperture to market with local brushes, but with the exception of Adobe's gradient tool, I generally prefer Aperture's cleaner approach.
A stack of adjustment panel modules lets you control a wide range of settings, including exposure, color, shadows and highlights, white balance, and the like. Most settings can be applied across the image or painted onto just one part. It's easy to duplicate modules if you want to use the same brush with different settings elsewhere on the image.
One of my favorite uses is brushing back in details lost in the shadows. Applying that effect globally--the only option available with Lightroom can cause problems in one part of an image, and merely increasing exposure isn't subtle enough.
With Aperture brushes, it's very easy to pinpoint small areas. Effects also can be brushed out if you want to partially reverse what you've done. Brushes also are good for fiddling with skies, often a problematic area for those who want their blues bluer and their clouds properly puffy. Especially helpful here is the "detect edges" option that restricts changes only to the color under the mouse pointer. Experienced photo editors will appreciate the ability to brush in tone-curve adjustments, another feature not available in Lightroom 2.
Also essential is the new ability to save adjustments as presets. A tooth-whitening brush, a particular sepia look, and the white balance for your studio lights all can be saved and used again. Not all was to my liking. One niggle: the brush control pop-up often gets in the way, so you'll have to shift it around to see what you're doing as you brush in effects. I welcome Aperture 3's new ability to fix chromatic aberration, the color fringes visible at edges produced when different colors of light travel through lenses in slightly different ways.
Initially I found that the algorithm fell short in some cases, but Apple improved its speed and ability with the Aperture 3. There still are times you might want to paint in chromatic aberration adjustments where needed, but it's easier to apply a single global adjustment across the whole image.
Still, there's room for improvement: it's a manual process, and though not released yet, Lightroom 3 will automatically correct lens problems.
Performance is also an issue with larger images, including the megapixel photos I used for most of my testing. The more adjustments are added to a photo, the longer it takes for Aperture to handle it, particularly when zoomed to percent view to check the pixel-level consequences of adjustments. The definition-enhancement tool in particular seemed to really tax the MacBook Pro I used. Aperture sometimes needed to re-render the percent view each time I zoomed in to check portions of an image, maxing out the dual-core processor for about 10 seconds for each zoom.
Applying adjustments can take time, with an annoying lag between dragging a slider and seeing the results--especially when viewing at percent. Performance is much better with smaller images. Aperture 3's third-generation raw processing engine improves noise reduction, color, and detail, but also adds some significant features for specific cameras. Metadata management Importing photos from a camera or flash card into a project in the Aperture library is a good time to add as much metadata as possible--shoot location, copyright notices, and keywords, for example--and Aperture makes this process fairly painless.
Importing a batch of photos can take a while as Aperture scans photos for faces and generates JPEG preview versions when necessary, but it has a good interface for selecting which shots you want to import, including higher-resolution views or a file detail list in addition to the expected thumbnails. Once you're past this initial stage, catalogs are fast to work with. Helpfully for those who don't want a single giant catalog, Aperture lets you split off projects into their own catalogs, switch to a new working catalog, or combine catalogs.
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