Aperture

Looking for a quick guide on how to use the manual mode on your Canon t2i, 5D or 7D? It's easier than you'd think! So easy, in fact, that this free video tutorial can present a complete overview of the process in just over three minutes' time. For specifics, including detailed ...more

Here's a creative control that let's you decide what will be in focus when shooting with your Nikon digital SLR. Watch this photography tutorial video to learn how to use Aperture Priority Mode on your Nikon D80 camera.

Instead of using Photoshop, why not give Apple's Aperture a try? Aperture is designed more for post-production work for professional photographers, letting you cull through shoots, enhance images, manage massive libraries, and deliver stunning photos. Watch this video tutoria ...more

Using Aperture, you can easily convert images to black and white and add color tints to enhance your photos.

You can easily integrate images from your Aperture library into your Keynote '08 presentations using the Keynote media browser.

The tether command allows you to tether your camera to your Mac and capture images directly into Aperture. It's fast, easy to set up, and gives studio photographers immediate full-screen feedback while they shoot.

You can use Aperture to present sophisticated slideshows of all the images in an album or project, complete with music and transitions.

Aperture's crop and straighten tools allow you to quickly adjust the composition of your images.

Need some help figuring out how to turn on the aperture priority mode on your DSLR camera? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this DSLR owner's guide can present a complete overview of the process in about three minutes' time. For more information, including detailed, step-by-s ...more

iMovie '08 allows you to directly access your Aperture library to add still photos to your movie.

Aperture's new retouch brush makes it simple to remove dust, blemishes, spots, and other unwanted elements from an image by simply brushing over them.

When you've finished editing your images, Aperture lets you export your photos in a number of formats.

Aperture 2 and iPhoto '08 are designed to work together so you can bring your iPhoto images into your Aperture library to work on them. Conversely, you can use images from your Aperture library to create iPhoto cards, calendars, and projects.

Aperture provides two sophisticated sharpening tools, edge sharpen and sharpen. Both help you improve the fine details in your images. Most images from digital cameras need a little sharpening, especially RAW files.

Instead of using Photoshop, why not give Apple's Aperture a try? Aperture is designed more for post-production work for professional photographers, letting you cull through shoots, enhance images, manage massive libraries, and deliver stunning photos. Watch this video tutoria ...more

Aperture's zoom tool makes it easy to view and edit your images up close and in great detail.

Aperture 2 includes new vignette and devignette adjustments that allow you to add soft, shadowed edges to your images for an artistic effect or to correct for unwanted darkened edges of images.

Instead of using Photoshop, why not give Apple's Aperture a try? Aperture is designed more for post-production work for professional photographers, letting you cull through shoots, enhance images, manage massive libraries, and deliver stunning photos. Watch this video tutoria ...more

Aperture's RAW fine tuning controls let you adjust the subtler aspects of how RAW files are decoded and rendered.

Aperture's full-featured printing system lets you create high-quality prints or contact sheets.

Instead of using Photoshop, why not give Apple's Aperture a try? Aperture is designed more for post-production work for professional photographers, letting you cull through shoots, enhance images, manage massive libraries, and deliver stunning photos. Watch this video tutoria ...more

All digital cameras automatically record the date and time each photo was taken and store this time stamp as metadata within each image file. In Aperture 2, you can change these time stamps. This is particularly useful if the clock in your camera is set incorrectly or if you'r ...more

Aperture's metadata inspector is a one-stop location for editing the metadata associated with your images. Some of this metadata is automatically stored within the image files of your digital camera, and aperture automatically reads it when you import your photos. You can add ...more

Aperture's highlights and shadows adjustment tool provides an easy way for you to brighten or reduce the brightness of highlights and shadows without affecting other aspects of your images.

Instead of using Photoshop, why not give Apple's Aperture a try? Aperture is designed more for post-production work for professional photographers, letting you cull through shoots, enhance images, manage massive libraries, and deliver stunning photos. Watch this video tutoria ...more

Quickly add captions to your digital images with Aperture. Whether you're new to digital photography or merely unfamiliar with Apple's Aperture 3, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from Lynda, which presents a thorough, step-by-step overview on how ...more

Aperture's book feature enables you to make elegant customized photo books in a variety of formats.

This Software video tutorial shows how to convert color images to black and white in Aperture. Scott Bourne presents this video. Open up ‘aperture’ program and select a color photo that you want to convert to black and white. Now move from the ‘projects’ page to the ‘adjustmen ...more

Aperture's lift and stamp tools let you copy adjustments and metadata from one image and copy them to other images in your Aperture library.

When setting the shutter speed and aperture of a camera, use a light meter to take a reading, then set the aperture or shutter speed, depending on which is more important for the photograph. Set the shutter speed and aperture of a camera with the tips in this free instructiona ...more

In this clip, we learn a basic digital photography workflow, one which will enable you to enhance your favorite digital photos with both ease and speed. (Note: To follow along, you will need to have the application installed. Learn how to download and install the Mac App Store ...more

Fancify your slideshows with Apple Aperture 3. Whether you're new to digital photography or merely unfamiliar with Apple's Aperture 3, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from Lynda, which presents a thorough, step-by-step overview on how to set up co ...more

In this video, learn how to take apart any old lenses you may have a fuse them together into the ultimate SuperMacro lens. This absolutely gorgeous tutorial will show you, step by step, exactly how to create this fantastic eye piece and take incredible photos with it.

Aperture's white balance adjustment helps you improve the quality of colors in your images, correcting for a camera that wasn't properly calibrated for the lighting conditions under which it was used.

With Aperture, you can include IPTC metadata when you export a version of an image and embed it when you export a master file.

In addition to stacks, Aperture also provides a special stack mode that lets you easily compare all of the images in a stack to determine which one you want to be the pick.

Have a photo that could do with a little touching up? Whether you're new to digital photography or merely unfamiliar with Apple's Aperture 3, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from Lynda, which presents a thorough, step-by-step overview on how to to ...more

Instead of using Photoshop, why not give Apple's Aperture a try? Aperture is designed more for post-production work for professional photographers, letting you cull through shoots, enhance images, manage massive libraries, and deliver stunning photos. Watch this video tutoria ...more

Instead of using Photoshop, why not give Apple's Aperture a try? Aperture is designed more for post-production work for professional photographers, letting you cull through shoots, enhance images, manage massive libraries, and deliver stunning photos. Watch this video tutoria ...more

Aperture's web gallery feature allows you to use your MobileMe account to quickly and easily publish sophisticated webpages that are synced directly to your Aperture library.

This is a cinematography tutorial video that demonstrates how to control the aperture and shutter speed on the HV20 high definition camcorder. This is the PAL version, so it's basically the same except the NTSC version would have different shutter speeds. You will also need a ...more

Aperture's light tables give you a completely unique way to view and organize your images.

Learn how to shoot with the Aperture Priority (A) function on a Panasonic G1 or GH1 digital camera. Whether you're the proud owner of a Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 or DMC-GH1 micro four thirds digital camera or perhaps just considering picking one up, you're sure to like this free ...more

In Aperture, you can easily select multiple images to view them side by side. this convenient feature makes it easy to compare images and to make changes to a group of images simultaneously.

New to Apple's Aperture 2? Aperture 2 offers photographers a streamlined way to speed through edits, make essential adjustments, and deliver photos online and in print. This software video tip illustrates a way to use Aperture 2 to convert colored photographs into black and w ...more

Aperture's compare mode lets you keep one image fixed in the viewer while you cycle through your other images for easy side-by-side comparisons. This feature is useful for choosing the best out of a group of similar shots.

It's true that a high quality digital SLR can take pictures 1000X better than any digital camera can without any previous experience from the photographer, but by understanding some digital SLR camera basics you can improve the quality of your photos greatly, and even take pro ...more

Aperture allows you to easily sort the images in the browser pane in several different way. By default, images are sorted by creation date.

Aperture's extensible architecture supports third-party export plug-ins that make it easy to export your photos directly to various web publishing sites, print service providers, and other software applications. You can find many of these plug-ins on www.apple.com.

Looking for a Photoshop-style Curves tool in Aperture 3? Look no further. Whether you're new to digital photography or merely unfamiliar with Apple's Aperture 3, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from Lynda, which presents a thorough, step-by-step o ...more

Aperture's advanced filter and search tools make it easy to find an image or a group of images within a single project or album, a folder of albums, or across your entire library.

You can use Aperture's web pages feature to create websites using images from any project, album, or folder.

The enhance controls in Aperture's adjustments panel provide a number of tools for refining your tonal adjustments, controlling saturation, and for correcting color casts.

One of the advantages of shooting in RAW format is that you can often recover overexposed or blown highlights. Aperture provides two easy to use controls for restoring detail to areas in a RAW image that have been overexposed to complete white.

We'll look at how Apple's iPhoto and Aperture programs can help you manage your photo collection, and save time outside of Photoshop.