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Layout Tool Disguised as Aperture's Book Making Function
Aperture 2.1 includes a more versatile book-making tool than we saw
in earlier versions. So powerful in fact, that calling it a book making tool is really selling it short. It's actually a flexible
layout application with some very useful output options. In this
podcast, Derrick Story talks with Joe Schorr and tries to uncover all
the hidden gems buried in Aperture 2.1. Read Layout Tool Disguised as Aperture's Book Making Function.
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Sometimes the advanced techniques make more sense when you fully understand the basics. In this Inside Aperture podcast, Joe Schorr reviews a couple of basic techniques, such as Primary Only, then moves into more advanced topics.
Primary Only is worth illustrating here. When you have a handful of images selected and are looking at them in viewer mode, you can visually tell if Primary Only is on or off. If it is on, then only one of the images will have a white border. Even though multiple images are displayed, any changes you make will only be applied to the one image with the white border.
When "Primary Only" is turned on, there is only one white border in viewer mode. Photos provided by The Digital Story members.
If Primary Only is turned off, then you will see faint white borders around all of the selected images, and changes will be applied to all of the selected photos.
When "Primary Only" is turned off, there are faint white borders around all of the selected images in viewer mode.
Joe does a great job of explaining Primary Only, then moves into other areas such as Album Picks. This is a discussion you'll want to listen to more than once!
(Inside Aperture, July 3, 2007: 22 minutes, 35 seconds)
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Control-click to download this MP3 file.Derrick Story is the digital media evangelist for O'Reilly. His experience includes more than 20 years as a photojournalist, managing editor for O'Reilly Network, and a speaker for IDG, PMA, and Santa Fe Workshops. He is the author of Digital Photography Hacks, Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Ed., and his latest, The Digital Photography Companion.
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Now I know I am one of about 10% who read the manuals, but shouldn't all the power of Aperture be documented for easy finding? I would like one location, a manual, where EVERYthing is laid out and easily accessed. I find myself searching Blogs, podcasts, Interviews, Teaching sites, Manuals, Readmes and getting hit and miss info, but no concise area of all the shortcuts, commands and power that Aperture has hidden under the hood.
But until that all comes together, please keep up the great information forum on Aperture.
John Houghton
Ontario Canada