Aperture 2

Apple Aperture 2.0

 

Aperture 2, Apple’s groundbreaking photo editing and management software, delivers more than 100 new features that make it dramatically faster and easier to use and even more powerful. Featuring a streamlined user interface, Aperture 2 provides accelerated performance with its optimized database and new Quick Preview mode for rapid-fire browsing. Thanks to advanced image processing with powerful new tools–such as Recovery, Vibrancy, Vignette, and a soft-edged Retouch brush–you’ll get the most out of every image. And thanks to integrated .Mac Web Gallery support, you can showcase your work on the web in minutes. From importing images to publishing them online or in print, Aperture 2 helps you realize your creative vision.

 

 

How Aperture lets you import, manage, and enhance your photos in one simple, integrated workflow.

• Import images in a flash. Manage them like a pro.

Pop a memory card filled with new images into your card reader and Aperture gets right to work, instantly displaying thumbnails and offering intelligent ways to add copyright, captions, keywords, and other metadata as you import them. You can also import images from hard drives, optical media, even iPhoto.

• Make selects quickly and easily. 

You’ve added hundreds of new photos to your Aperture library. Now you need to review them all and pick the very best — your selects. Aperture lets you edit photo shoots using tools such as Quick Preview mode for rapid-fire image review and Compare mode for viewing two or more images side by side. With Aperture, you can even zoom and pan multiple images at once for tight comparisons before making a pick.

• Turn your good photos into beautiful images. 

With your favorite shots selected, it’s now time to use Aperture’s adjustment tools to make your best photos look even better. Aperture takes you way beyond the basics of straightening, cropping, and improving exposure. Use the new Vibrancy and Definition tools to create beautiful photos with enhanced detail and saturation. Or darken the corners of your image with the Vignette tool. Copying adjustments from one image to another is simple using the Lift and Stamp tool. And since all adjustments are nondestructive, you don’t have to worry about damaging your original master images. Aperture never touches them.

• Take the final steps and showcase your best work.

Publish online. Aperture offers fully integrated .Mac Web Gallery support, so you can publish a portfolio using your .Mac account in minutes. You can even use your password-protected Web Gallery to deliver photos, letting others download JPEG or original RAW files directly from your site.

Your book. To order. Aperture provides all the tools you need to create custom-designed books in small, medium, and large formats. You can place, resize, rotate, and mask photos, so your book looks exactly the way you want. For a professional touch, include a full-bleed, wraparound dust jacket on your next hardcover book. Then place your order without leaving Aperture.

Flexible export options With every photo looking picture perfect, it’s time to present your best work to others. Use one of the export plug-ins in Aperture to send your photos to Flickr — or SmugMug, Gallery, Zenfolio, or Picasa.

Printing prowess. The latest printers from Canon and Epson support 16-bit printing. And so does Aperture, letting you produce high-quality prints with smoother gradients and better color fidelity. The new Print dialog also features a print sharpening slider for fine-tuning sharpness without wasting paper. Ready for pro-quality prints? You can order prints — up to 20 by 30 inches — directly from Aperture.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers

 

Scott Kelby, author of the world’s #1 bestselling Photoshop book, The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, brings his same award-winning, step-by-step, plain-English style, look and feel to The Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers.

This groundbreaking new book doesn’t just show you “which sliders do what” (every Lightroom book does that). This book takes you beyond that to reveal the secrets of the new digital photography workflow, and he does it using three simple, yet brilliant techniques that make this just an incredible learning tool:

#1) Throughout the book Scott shares his own personal settings and studio tested techniques he’s developed using Lightroom for his own photography workflow since well before Adobe released even the first Beta version. He knows what really works, what doesn’t, and he tells you flat out which tools to use, which to avoid, and why.

#2) The entire book is laid out in a real workflow order with everything step-by-step, so you can jump right in using Lightroom like a pro from the very start and sidestep a lot of productivity killing road blocks and time-wasting frustrations that might have tripped you up along the way.

#3) But what really sets this book apart from the rest, are the last two bonus chapters. This is where Scott visually answers his #1 “most-asked” Lightroom question, which is: “Exactly what order am I supposed to do things in, and where does Photoshop fit in?”

Scott teaches this in a manner we’ve never seen before in any book, by really showing every step of the entire process, from the initial shoot to the final prints. Both chapters start with an on-location photo shoot, including full details on the equipment, camera settings, and even the lighting techniques. You’ll see it all as he takes the photos from each shoot (with you following right along using the very same images) all the way through the entire workflow process, to the final output of the 16×20″ prints for the client. Plus, because he incorporates Adobe Photoshop seamlessly right into this workflow, you’ll also learn some of his latest Photoshop techniques for portrait and landscape photography, which takes this book to a whole new level.

It’s the first, and only book to bring the whole process together in such a clear, concise, and visual way. Best all, it’s taught in Scott’s trademark plain-English style that has won him legions of Photoshop fans around the world, and made him the #1 bestselling author of all computer books across all Computing and Internet categories since 2004.

If you’re one of those people who learns best by actually doing the projects yourself; who learns best without all the complicated technical explanations and confusing jargon, and if you really want to start using Lightroom today to unlock the productivity secrets of “The new digital photography workflow,”—-there is no faster, more “straight-to-the-point” or more fun way to learn than this groundbreaking new book, and you are absolutely going to love it!  

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (2)

How Lightroom supports your workflow

 

1. IMPORT

• Robust tools to handle large shoots
• Speedily process high-volume shoots by automatically importing images whenever media cards or cameras are connected to your computer. Then automatically rename files, organize folders, and make nondestructive adjustments as images are imported.
• Import/export presets
• Streamline the importing and exporting of your files by saving your frequently used settings in stored presets, which you can recall and apply when needed.
• Automatic conversion to DNG
• If desired, automatically convert your images from proprietary file formats to the publicly available Digital Negative (DNG) format as they are imported, or easily export photographs from your Library in DNG format.

2. MANAGE

• Multiple viewing options

Quickly find and select your best shots with flexible display options like the Grid view for groups of thumbnails, the Loupe view for zeroing in on fine detail in a single image, or the Compare view for displaying two or more images side by side.

• Flexible organization of images

Bring order to voluminous image libraries by grouping your photographs in stored collections. Create collections for different tasks or subjects, and group similar images within a collection to organize them further.

• Manual thumbnail reordering

Put your images in the order that you need them for any particular task by selecting any number of photographs in your Library — continuous or not — and then simply dragging them to a new location on the Grid.

• Easy file renaming

Make your photographs easier to find and keep in sensible order using the Lightroom renaming feature. Simply set naming rules, and Lightroom automatically renames your images as they’re imported.

• Single or group metadata stamping

Organize and annotate your images by adding metadata to a single photo or to groups of selected images. Save metadata sets as presets, which you can apply with one click.

• Image versions without duplication

Create as many alternate versions of an image as you desire without overloading your hard drive. Then, switch between versions with a single click.IPTC/EXIF/XMP metadata supportRead, add, or edit a comprehensive set of metadata entries, including IPTC, EXIF, and XMP data.

• Metadata stamping on output

Stamp crucial metadata — such as copyright notification, captions, and keywords — on print jobs or exported images so you can search on it later.

• Keyword synchronization

Make keywords consistent even if you’re using Lightroom on two different computers by importing and exporting keyword sets to external, transferable files.

• Offline image management

Work with your image library in Lightroom even when some or all of the actual photo files are stored on offline media.

• Easy Library backup to CD/DVD

Help ensure the safety and preservation of your photographs by backing them up to CD or DVD using simple built-in tools.

• Simple keywording

Easily organize your photographs and make them searchable with keywords that make sense to you. Assign keywords to a single image or groups of selected images — just type and apply.

 

3. DEVELOP

• Easy-to-use white balance, exposure, and contrast controls

Quickly perfect white balance, exposure, and tone curves in your images, including camera raw files, with familiar slider controls, or enter numeric values for the most precise adjustments.

• Simple yet powerful tone curve editor

Precisely control the tonality and contrast of your images by individually targeting highlights, midtones, and shadows using sliders and visual controls.

• Integration with Adobe Photoshop
  • Instantly send any number of images to Adobe Photoshop (sold separately) for advanced editing, and see the changes you’ve made reflected in the Lightroom Library when you’re done.
  • Advanced hue, saturation, and luminance editing
  • Enhance color saturation and remove color casts in your images with individual control over six color ranges each for hue, saturation, and luminance.
  • Nondestructive editing
  • Enjoy robust support for more than 140 camera raw formats, and experiment with confidence. Adjustments you make to images in Lightroom won’t alter the original data, whether you’re working on a JPEG, TIFF, DNG, or camera raw file.
  • Fast zooming
  • Check sharpness, noise, or small details with nearly instant zooming — a simple keyboard command or mouse click toggles between 100% magnification and a full-image view. Smoothly navigate highly magnified areas using the Hand tool in the photo preview pane.

• Convenient before/after comparison mode

View a side-by-side display of your original picture and a duplicate that shows the effects of your edits as you make them, or display the before and after states in a split view of the image. Toggle either view between portrait and landscape modes, and even see images in “lights out” view.

• Finely tuned black-and-white conversions

Convert color images to black-and-white with precision. Familiar sliders allow you to control the contrast and detail based on the colors in the original photograph.

• Synchronized adjustments across multiple images
  • Edit large numbers of images faster by creating presets that you can apply to many photographs at once, or edit one image and then synchronize your adjustments to other photos you select.
  • Explicit history tracking
  • Retrace your adjustments to any image — the History panel tracks them automatically as you edit — and instantly return to any state of the photo that you choose.

• Dust buster
  • Erase dust spots from an image with a single click.
  • Easy-to-use crop and straighten tools
  • Crop and straighten your photographs in a snap.

• Red-eye removal

Quickly eliminate red eye when it occurs in your flash photos.

 

4. PRESENT

• Fast, high-quality printing

Quickly and visually format high-quality prints, whether working with one photo or 100, on one page or many. Recall your favorite layouts with saved presets and enjoy speedy output, even of large files.

• Live preview of HTML or Flash based web galleries

Create HTML or Adobe Flash® based web galleries for online presentation with little effort and no programming, and preview the results in Lightroom before you publish them to your site.

• Single-click web publishing

Save your web server information in Lightroom as an FTP preset, and then publish your Flash or HTML galleries with a single click. There’s no more need for a separate FTP client application in your imaging workflow.

• Sophisticated slide shows
  • Use the simple controls in Lightroom to create and play elegant slide shows, and include background music from your digital music library, including iTunes.
  • Signature stamps
  • Stamp your slide shows, web galleries, and printed output with your studio or business logo for an added professional touch.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (1)

New Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software is the professional photographer’s essential toolbox, providing one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens.

 

Why Lightroom?

• Perform nondestructive editing
• Enjoy robust support for more than 150 camera raw formats, and experiment with confidence. Adjustments you make to images in Lightroom won’t alter the original data, whether you’re working on a JPEG, TIFF, DNG, or camera raw file.
• Enjoy an elegant, uncluttered interface
• Ease the learning curve and be productive quickly. Task-oriented modules whisk you through typical workflow tasks by putting just the tools you need at your fingertips. 
• Professional editing tools
• Fine-tune your photographs with precise, easy-to-use tools for globally correcting white balance, exposure, tone curves, lens distortion, and color casts.

 

1. IMPORT

Quickly download images from your camera to your computer. Automatically rename files, organize folders, and even add metadata to photos as you import them.

2. MANAGE

Work in the Library module to organize photos into collections, to browse, evaluate, and compare images, and to add keywords so that you can easily find your images.

3. DEVELOP

Jump to the Develop module to make global adjustments to photographs, including correcting white balance, exposure, tone curves, and color casts.

4. PRESENT

Assemble and output high-quality printed contact sheets and generate sophisticated online web galleries and slide shows for client presentation.