Peachpit Published Real World Aperture by Ben Long

Apple's Aperture is designed around a camera raw-based workflow, so users can import, edit, catalog, organize, retouch, publish, and archive images more effectively and efficiently than ever before. In Real World Aperture (Peachpit, $34.99), best-selling author Ben Long takes Aperture users inside the application to provide an in-depth understanding of its tools. He also offers a slew of tips and workarounds for creating a custom Aperture workflow. Long's coverage of the fundamental theory and practice of working with raw image files will help users master the program's high-end editing features.

In Real World Aperture readers will learn how to:

• Navigate the Aperture interface
  
• Import, organize, compare, and sort your images using metadata, smart
  folders, and stacks
  
• Understand and build an image library, including building multiple
  libraries and spanning a single library across multiple drives
  
• Implement raw-specific strategies for sharpening, reducing noise,
  improving tone, and making other enhancements and corrections to raw images
  
• Understand how to shoot with an eye toward editing raw files in
  Aperture
  
• Integrate Adobe Photoshop CS2 into your workflow by defining it as an
  external editor
  
• Export and print Web galleries, books, and archives and create a back
  up for your image library

Ben Long is a professional photographer and videographer. He's the author of numerous magazine articles and books, including Getting Started with Camera Raw, and writes a regular photography column for CreativePro.com. [Bill Fox]