Aperture Intensive Resources

Top Ten Time saving Tips

Aperture Essentials:

1. Customized Keyboard Shortcuts:  This feature can be found under Aperture -> Commands

• E – Lift
• R – Stamp
• Shift + Z – Dodge Quick Brush (QB)
• Shift + X – Burn QB
• Shift + C – Contrast QB
• Shift + V – Saturation QB
• Shift + B – Sharpening QB
• Shift + N = Noise Reduction QB
• Shift + M = Halo Reduction QB
• Shift + A = Skin Smoothening QB

 

2. Import Adjustment Presets – found under Import Settings – Sara’s Presets can be found on shop.sarafrance.com

3. Build your ideal Project Structure / Duplicate

 

Adjustments

4. Adjustment Tricks

1. Command Key
2. Command E for selecting the whole stack
3. Primary Only button

5. Smart Albums on Crack

6. Merging Libraries
Building Albums with the Aperture Book Tool

7. Aperture Book Plugins

1. Couture Book
2. Leather Craftsmen
3. Queensberry
4. Graphi

8. Creating Custom Book Templates

9. Changing the DPI on your albums:

Path: Under Devices go to your computer -> Machintosh HD -> Library -> PDF Services

Stop & Check Permissions: When you get to this folder right click the folder, select get info. At the bottom you will need to make sure all the permissions are set to Read & Write – if not then change those permissions

Inside that folder look for “Save PDF to folder as JPEG.workflow” before opening it, right click go through the same process of checking permissions as you did above. Then open double click on it which will launch automator. One more step…

Under the first dop down called “Render PDF Pages as Images” change the DPI to 300 and make sure the compression is set to best.

10. Bonus Tip from ApertureExpert.com

Aperture Expert is a great site that gives you lots of tips and insight into Aperture. They also have a great community. Joseph from Aperture Expert wrote and ebook and I asked hime to share one of my favorite tips from that ebook with you here for free. The tip is tip #15 and it is something that I did not have a great handle on until I read his tip on it.

Here is a link to the short PDF that you can download and read anytime you want.

 

Additional Resources:

Aperture Trainings

Shoot Dot Edit