10-day free trial

Archive

Saturday, January 07, 2012

How To Use Aperture 3 - Tutorials For Beginners

Here are some Aperture 3 tutorials for those of you who would like to learn how to use Aperture 3. These video tutorials are from Aperture 3 Essential Training from lynda.com. In this training course, pro photographer Derrick Story covers the entire photographic workflow in Aperture. You'll learn how to organize your image collections, color correct, retouch your photos, and more! The free video tutorials can be found below. If you would like to access the rest of the videos in this entire 8-hour course, you can sign up for a lynda.com membership or you can get a free 7-day trial pass. The trial pass gives you complete access to the entire lynda.com training library of over 1000 courses.



START LEARNING TODAY!
or

WATCH THESE 9 FREE VIDEOS FROM THE COURSE

Viewing in full-screen mode - How To Use Aperture 3 - Tutorials For Beginners


Using the Loupe for a closer look - How To Use Aperture 3 - Tutorials For Beginners


Showing focus points - How To Use Aperture 3 - Tutorials For Beginners


Learning the heads-up displays - How To Use Aperture 3 - Tutorials For Beginners


Making adjustments with the Curves tool - How To Use Aperture 3 - Tutorials For Beginners


Retouching portraits with adjustment brushes - How To Use Aperture 3 - Tutorials For Beginners


Highlighting hot and cold areas - How To Use Aperture 3 - Tutorials For Beginners


Creating unique captions quickly - How To Use Aperture 3 - Tutorials For Beginners


Setting up complex slideshows - How To Use Aperture 3 - Tutorials For Beginners

CHOOSE AN OPTION TO ACCESS THE ENTIRE LYNDA.COM TRAINING LIBRARY
or


Course Information

Training Provider: Lynda.com
Title: Aperture 3 Essential Training
Author: Derrick Story
Duration: 8hrs 3mins
Date of release: 16 April 2010

Chapter 1: Getting Started
Understanding the system requirements
Understanding key Aperture terms
Touring the interface
Setting essential preferences
Customizing the top toolbar
Setting up two monitors
Configuring for faces and places
Understanding RAW files
Following the recommended Aperture workflow

Chapter 2: Importing Photos and Movies
Preparing for import
Using managed libraries or the referenced file approach
Creating metadata presets
Adding keywords on import
Importing images from a digital camera
Using the RAW+JPEG option
Importing movies from your digital camera
Importing iPhoto libraries
Importing images from a hard drive
Importing images from an iPhone

Chapter 3: Viewing Images
Working in Projects view
Working in Photos view
Viewing in full-screen mode
Zooming to actual size
Using the Loupe for a closer look
Showing focus points
Using Quick Preview
Proofing profiles and on-screen proofing
Customizing metadata overlays
Managing previews
Learning the heads-up displays

Chapter 4: Comparing, Selecting, and Organizing Images
Creating projects and albums
Rating images by stars and color
Flagging images
Organizing a series with stacks
Grouping images with Smart Albums

Chapter 5: Managing Libraries
Understanding Aperture 3 libraries
Switching between libraries
Exporting single or multiple projects as libraries
Merging multiple libraries into one
Splitting libraries
Sharing libraries

Chapter 6: Making Basic Image Adjustments
Defining the difference between master and version files
Working with the Adjustments pane
Updating RAW processing from previous versions of Aperture
Reading a histogram
Adjusting white balance
Adjusting exposures
Enhancing photos
Adjusting highlights and shadows
Customizing auto adjustments for levels and curves
Adjusting tonality with the Levels tool
Adjusting colors
Converting color pictures to black and white
Sharpening edges
Using the Vignette effect

Chapter 7: Making Additional Image Adjustments
Cropping images
Retouching blemishes
Fixing spots
Using Straighten, Crop, and Flip
Fixing a chromatic aberration
Reducing visual noise
Making adjustments with the Curves tool
Rotating images
Removing the Vignette effect
Using the Color Monochrome and Sepia tools
Considering the Sharpen tool

Chapter 8: Using Advanced Editing Tools
Introducing brushes
Using quick brushes
Using adjustment brushes
Retouching portraits with adjustment brushes
Creating multiple bricks for a single adjustment
Applying presets
Modifying presets
Highlighting hot and cold areas
Photoshop round-tripping
Using the edit plug-ins
Customizing the Adjustments pane
Batch processing with Lift and Stamp

Chapter 9: Faces and Places
Setting up face recognition
Searching for faces
Working with images that have existing tags in places
Adding geo tags using places in Aperture
Searching by place

Chapter 10: Modifying Metadata
Applying keywords
Creating unique captions quickly
Batch changing

Chapter 11: Searching for Images
Using the Search box
Creating Smart Albums for searching

Chapter 12: Exporting Images
Exporting masters and versions
Using the export plug-ins

Chapter 13: Archiving Photos
Developing a backup strategy
Backing up with vaults
Restoring from a vault

Chapter 14: Slideshows and Movies
Viewing your images via a quick slideshow
Setting up complex slideshows
Customizing individual slides
Adding video to your slideshows
Pulling a still frame from a movie
Exporting slideshows

Chapter 15: Using Aperture's Bookmaking and Design Tools
Preparing your book project
Adjusting your book
Creating a custom template
Outputting your book

Chapter 16: Web and Electronic Publishing
Emailing a photo from Aperture
Seeing your Aperture library from other applications
Building a web page
Publishing a web gallery
Using MobileMe for web publishing
Publishing images to Flickr
Publishing images to Facebook

Chapter 17: Printing Images
Printing a single image
Printing multiple images
Ordering prints from within Aperture
About Lynda.com

Lynda.com is an online video training provider with over 1000 courses covering a wide array of topics - 3D, video, business, the web, graphic design, programming, animation, photography, and more. They produce high-quality video tutorials with leading industry experts and professionals as your instructors. With a subscription, you can log-in at any time, and learn at your own pace. New courses are added each week, and you will receive a certificate of completion for each course that you finish.

Start learning today!
If you enjoyed the sample videos above and want to access the entire Aperture 3 Essential Training course, you can sign up for a lynda.com membership. Your membership will give access not only to this course, but also the entire lynda.com library for as low as $25 for 1-month. Their training library has over 1000 courses with 50,000+ video tutorials. No long-term commitment required. You can cancel your membership at any time.


Not yet convinced? Try a FREE 7-day trial.
As a special promotion, visitors of this site can get a FREE 7-day trial to lynda.com. This free trial gives you access to their entire training library of over 1000 courses.

If you liked these free Aperture 3 tutorials, sign up for a lynda.com membership to start learning how to use Aperture 3. Your membership gives you access to the entire lynda.com training library of over 1000 courses. You can log on at anytime and learn at your own pace.

START LEARNING TODAY!
or
10-day free trial

Share:

No comments:

 

Disclaimer

Information on this site may contain errors or inaccuracies. PinoyMacLovers is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind as to the correctness or reliability of the site's contents. PinoyMacLovers, and the author thereof, shall not be held responsible or liable, under any circumstances, for any damages resulting from the use or inability to use the information within. Furthermore, PinoyMacLovers is in no way responsible for or has control over the content of any external web site links.

PinoyMacLovers is an independent web site and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Apple Inc.

Apple, Apple Logos, Macintosh, and Mac OS Logos are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners. If you own rights to any of the content seen here, and do not wish them to appear on this site, you may send an email to copyright [at] pinoymaclovers [dot] com, and they will promptly be removed.

Privacy Policy for PinoyMacLovers.com

The privacy of our visitors to PinoyMacLovers.com is important to us.

At PinoyMacLovers.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit PinoyMacLovers.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on PinoyMacLovers.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests ("interest based targeting"). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information". It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

AdSense Privacy Policy Provided by JenSense