If you aren’t a photographer, this post isn’t going to mean a whole heck of a lot to you…but you can see a pretty shot if you stick with this! I use Apple’s Aperture to organize my shots, to design albums, and to do some basic editing of my images. Usually, when I do a blog post or design a wedding album, I edit each shot in Photoshop. Aperture just didn’t have enough functionality for me, that is, until this past Tuesday when Apple released Aperture 3! Yay! Now I can really do a lot of editing to my images without ever needing to go to Photoshop. That’s going to save me a lot of time, and I couldn’t be happier. I have two favorites from the release: 1. Apple finally introduced presets and brushes and 2. you can design custom albums using templates and then send the designs right to certain album companies (like Leather Craftsman and Queensbury)! I tried making an album for Leather Craftsman and the design was amazing!
Here’s an image straight out of the camera:
And here is the same image using a preset that I bought from Sara France here. I love the presets, both from Sara France, and the ones that Apple included in Aperture 3! One click and this image was perfect….thanks Sara! I could have smoothed my bride’s skin out using one of Aperture’s new brushes, but I left it alone to show that the presets, alone, are pretty terrific and really, you can’t beat one click!
