Apple Pro Training Series Aperture 3

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Apple Pro Training Series Aperture 3

This Apple-certified guide to Aperture 3 starts with the fundamentals of effigy management and takes you step by step through Aperture’s powerful editing, retouching, proofing, publishing, and archiving features. It delivers comprehensive training – the equivalent of a three-day course – in one project-based book. With finish coverage of Aperture’s new features, you’ll learn to coordinate your photos using Faces, Apple’s face detection and acknowledgement tool, take vantage of Places to find photos by the emplacement where they were shot, and retouch your images incisively with new nondestructive edge-aware brushes. You’ll construct innovative slideshows that include HD videos, titles, and layered soundtracks, and with the full-screen Browser you’ll now be competent to use each inch of your Mac display to browse and edit. Real-world exercises feature professional photography from a assortment of genres, including fashion, sports, wedding, commercial, and landscape photography.

DVD-ROM includes lesson and media files for over 20 hours of training
Focused lessons take you step-by-step through professional, real-world projects
Accessible writing style puts an expert instructor at your side
Ample illustrations and keyboard shortcuts help you master proficiencies fast
Lesson goals and time estimates aid you plan your time
Chapter review questions summarize what you’ve learned and prepare you for the Apple Certified Pro Exam
The accompanying disc requires Mac OS X v 10.5.8 or v 10.6.2 or later; Aperture 3;iPhoto ’09, version 8.1 or later.

About the AuthorDion Scoppuoletto is an Apple Authorized Trainer, marketing advisor and avid travel photographer who has taught classes on Aperture and other Apple productions world wide. Before starting his own company, he was at Apple Inc. for 7 years, where he worked as a Senior Product Manager on Shake, Motion and iPhoto, and was involved in the primary release of Aperture.

Most helpful customer reviews

76 of 79 people found the following review helpful.
OUTSTANDING! Kindle Version is AWESOME on the iPad. See Link Below for media files.
By Frank E. Trinkle
I have been a fan of Apple’s Training Series from Peachpit for some time. This book is no exception, and is extremely well written and easily understood and followed.

I was more than happy to see that Peachpit and Apple collaborated quickly to get the first comprehensive instruction manual to print and it is a winner. The learning curve for Aperture is somewhat high, but the book guides you through the learning process gradually, with each chapter logically building on the last, and reducing the time needed to learn critical functions. The writing style is clear and end-user friendly, without a lot of techno-jargon complicating the process. By the end of the book, you’ll have a very functional understanding of Aperture 3, and your processing time and workflow steps will be dramatically decreased.

The book has a companion DVD with the media files necessary to follow the course as designed. It is NOT included with the e-book (Kindle) version, but can be downloaded from Peachpit Press. This is NOT reflected in the book, though customer service at Peachpit states it should have been. The book is only marginally useful without the companion media files which are clearly designed to be used in conjunction with the chapters in the book.

The URL for the media files is listed in the comments to this review. (Amazon won’t allow full URL’s in reviews) Be forewarned… it is a 3.6GB DMG file (Macs only).

The Kindle version on the Apple iPad is STUNNING in its clarity and definition! The illustrations and pictures are phenomenal, and totally unexpected…oh so clear! This has made using the iPad for following the book next to my MacbookPro and Mac Pro a dream. It also reduces my baggage weight when traveling so that I no longer have to carry heavy manuals in suitcases to have ready reference material on the road. (I work overseas every other six-weeks). Peachpit is dedicated to offering virtually all of their books in digital form, and that’s the only way I’ll buy them in the future. The iPad makes it a perfect solution! (The book can also be viewed on a Kindle, but in monochrome which significantly reduces the value of photo-related manuals of this type)

Five stars for this book… and five more to Amazon for offering it at a discounted price in digital form! Get it!

UPDATE: See comments below for coded URL for the media files.

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent For A Beginner Like Me
By T. Lee
To be clear, my experience level with Aperture 3 is zero. I have never used the program before and do not have any experience with other applications like Photoshop or Lightroom 3.

Because of my inexperience, I really wanted a book that covered it all. In that respect, this book really fits the bill nicely. The author goes over aspects of the program including importing, tagging, editing and sharing your pictures. The book includes a disc with sample images you can use to follow along with his “lesson plans”. I found this to be extremely helpful. It’s one thing to read a book where they talk about what a function does, but to have a sample image that you can edit as you read along really reinforces what that function does … it’s immediate and positive feedback that you’re doing it right.

The book is definitely geared towards the beginner. If you already understand concepts of managing your photos, basic editing, etc … then this book may be too simple for you. I was hoping for a little more detail on some of the more advanced editing functions like using the curves brick, etc. Also, almost half the book covers just the importing and managing of your photos. I personally would have preferred a little more emphasis on editing the photos … but that’s a personal nit-pick.

Pros:
1. Great introduction to the application.
2. Includes sample images you can use to follow along.
3. Well written, easy to follow and understand.

Cons:
1. Maybe too much emphasis on file management.
2. Not enough detail on some of the more advanced functions.
3. You have to follow the book very closely, or you may find some images not immediately accessible.

All that being said, if you take the time to read this book and follow along with the lesson plans you *will* have a strong understanding of the basics and will definitely have more fun using the program.

38 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent training id you take the time to do the lessons
By B. Rutledge
This book is written like a training course, and to get full value you need to take the time to work through the lessons as given. This is not hard, because the book has a DVD with sample photos and disk images that you use in each lesson. When I worked through each lesson step by step with the photos they give you, I learned a lot – more than when I watched some training videos on the web.

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