Peachpit Press Release

Introducing Aperture, Apple’s all-in-one postproduction tool for professional digital photographers. Aperture is designed around a camera raw-based workflow, so users can import, edit, catalog, organize, retouch, publish, and archive images more effectively and efficiently than ever before. In Real World Aperture, best-selling author Ben Long takes Aperture users inside the application to provide an in-depth understanding of its tools. He also offers a slew of tips and workarounds for creating a custom Aperture workflow. Long’s coverage of the fundamental theory and practice of working with raw image files will help users master the program’s high-end editing features.

Title: Real World Aperture
Author: Ben Long
Price: $34.99
Website: www.peachpit.com/title/0321441931

In Real World Aperture readers will learn how to:

  * Navigate the Aperture interface
  * Import, organize, compare, and sort your images using metadata, smart folders, and stacks
  * Understand and build an image library, including building multiple libraries and spanning a single library across multiple drives
  * Implement raw-specific strategies for sharpening, reducing noise, improving tone, and making other enhancements and corrections to raw images
  * Understand how to shoot with an eye toward editing raw files in Aperture
  * Integrate Adobe Photoshop CS2 into your workflow by defining it as an external editor
  * Export and print Web galleries, books, and archives and create a back up for your image library

About the Author
Ben Long is a professional photographer and videographer. He’s the author of numerous magazine articles and books, including Getting Started with Camera Raw, and writes a regular photography column for CreativePro.com.

About Peachpit
Berkeley-based Peachpit has been publishing the industry’s best-selling books on the latest in graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, Web publishing, digital video and general Macintosh computing since 1986. Its award-winning books feature step-by-step explanations, time-saving techniques, savvy insider tips, and expert advice for computer users of all sorts. It is the home of the internationally recognized Visual QuickStart Guide series, the design imprint New Riders and its highly popular Voices That Matter series, and is the publishing partner for Adobe Press, lynda.com, NAPP, Apple Certified, AIGA Design Press and others. Peachpit is part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the international media company. Pearson’s primary operations also include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group. Learn more at www.peachpit.com and www.pearson.com.