Lesson 1. Exploring the Aperture Workflow

Lesson Files	APTS_Aperture_book_files > Lessons > Lesson01
Media	Aperture Tibet sample project
	Aperture Library
Time	This lesson takes approximately 1 hour to complete.
Goals	Open Aperture and view RAW images
	Set up Aperture as your default image-capture application
	Tour Aperture's main window
	Explore Aperture's preset workspaces
	Customize the toolbar
	Customize the workspace
	Change the Aperture default Library

Apple Aperture is a revolutionary new imaging program that allows commercial photographers to work with Camera RAW images from capture to output. As you will learn throughout the lessons of this book, Aperture makes working with RAW images as easy as using TIFF or JPEG images, allowing you to import, edit, organize, publish, and archive them without ever converting them to another format.

The best way to see how flexible and efficient it is to work in Aperture is to simply get started. In this lesson, we will look at what happens when you open Aperture for the first time, we'll preview some RAW images in Aperture, we'll navigate the interface, and we'll learn how Aperture organizes images using its Library, albums, projects, and folders.

Before opening Aperture, be sure that you have read "Getting Started" on page 1, that you have the proper system requirements and resources, that you've copied the lesson and project files to your hard disk as instructed, and that you've calibrated your display for optimal color accuracy.