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Duration One Day
   
Public scheduled course £345 plus VAT
   
Individual tuition £495 plus VAT
 
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The cost of this course includes six months telephone Helpline support, course notes, lunch and a certificate

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Introduction to Aperture

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Course Overview

This is an Apple authorised course designed for professional photographers and serious amateurs who want to master this revolutionary application for managing, editing and archiving digital photographs.

This comprehensive course takes you step by step through Aperture's powerful photo editing, image retouching, proofing, publishing and archiving features

Course content

Introduction
• Aperture workflow and layouts
• Importing from a memory card
• Understanding Camera RAW
• Using Masters and Versions
• Rating, editing and outputting images

Evaluating images
• Using Quick Preview
• Grouping images into Stacks
• Using the Centered Loupe
• Assigning ratings

Organising your project
• Using keywords
• Using the Metadata inspector
• Sorting images dynamically
• Search queries

Editing your images
• Editing workflow
• White balancing
• Sensor dust and red-eye removal
• Working with RAW files
• Using the Recovery slider
• Using the Exposure slider

Correcting tone
• Adjusting tone before colour
• Reading a histogram
• Setting levels
• Adjusting highlights and shadows

Correcting colour
• Adjusting white balance with the Eyedropper
• Lift and stamp
• Round-trip editing

Enhancing images
• Using the Retouch brush
• Noise reduction
• Sharpening images

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