Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 3
Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 3
- The only Apple-certified guide to Apple’s incredibly popular end-to-end workflow tool for professional photographers.
- The DVD-ROM includes lesson files for over 20 hours of training
- 504 Page Softcover Book
This Apple-certified guide to Aperture 3 starts with the basics of image 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 complete coverage of Aperture’s new features, you’ll learn to organize your photos using Faces, Apple’s face detection and recognition tool, take advantage of Places to find photos by th
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Review by Frank E. Trinkle for Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 3
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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.
Review by B. Rutledge for Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 3
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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.
Review by David Katz for Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 3
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This is a great instructional product that goes way beyond the manual that comes with the program. If you are a serious photographer and/or editor, and you are willing to be diligent with your studies this is the trainer for you.
I did run into some trouble with what seems to be a malfunction of the disk. It is not obvious where to go for help. Once I worked through that I was treated cordially and was supplied a new disc or download (my choice) without any hassle.
Review by B. Crossley for Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 3
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I’ve been going through the book Aperture 3 by Dion Scoppettuolo, and following each lesson completely.
The lessons start falling apart around “working with stacks,” which you can kind of work around
but the wheels completely leave the bus when you get to Chapter 4.
The disc loads images on to your existing iPhoto, where you Browse and import the images from there.
Unless you have a recent version of iPhoto the “lesson” version will not import from the older iPhoto to the lessons.
Before I purchased the book, I was using Aperture 3 and had no problem migrating all of my images from earlier iPhoto versions, to
Ap. 3.
After purchasing the current version of iWorks so I can upgrade my iPhoto and get through the lessons, everything fell into place.
Ap. 3 is a tremendous tool.
Still no word from PeachPit Press on the disclosure.
Review by Henry S. Trentman for Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 3
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Aperture is an outstanding program for photo archiving and retouching. This book helps you get the most out of it. There is a lot to learn but this program gets you throughout it.