Real World Aperture
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Photography & Video
Real World Aperture Details
From the Back Cover Released to near universal acclaim, Apple's Aperture is an all-in-one post-production tool for professional photographers. Featuring a RAW-focused workflow, Aperture lets photographers import, edit, catalog, organize, retouch, publish, and archive images more effectively and efficiently than ever before. In this guide, best-selling author Ben Long takes Aperture users to the next level, providing them with a more in-depth understanding of Aperture's tools, as well as lots of tips and work-arounds to get the most out of the program. In addition, the coverage of fundamental raw theory and practice will help the reader master the program's high-end editing features. More than just a step-by-step tutorial, this book will help photographers develop a fundamental understanding of the philosophy and approach that underlies Aperture's design. Aperture is now available and retails at $299 Read more About the Author Ben Long is a professional photographer and videographer who has written numerous magazine articles and books (including Getting Started with Camera Raw for Peachpit Press). He also writes a regular photography column for CreativePro.com. Read more
Reviews
This book is a follow on to Apple's official Pro Training book co-authored by Ben Long and Orlando Luna. The Pro training book was written fairly early on and while it is the basis for becoming User or Trainer certified, it doesn't cover some of the more obscure capabilities of Aperture in depth. This newer book by Ben Long goes into more detail about the most useful portions of Aperture. In particular, I learned a lot more about the image adjustments available and how to use them. I would highly recommend this book. Of the many books currently available for Aperture users, this is currently the best.That said, Aperture has undergone about 3 updates since this book was published. It has had many new features added and no book, so far, covers all the newer things. This is constant problem with new applications in particular. It would seem to lobby for e-book updates to expensive software training books.Still, a good reference book.