Real World Aperture

Chapter Eight. Output

In the old days of analog photography, this chapter would have been called “Printing,” but nowadays, whether you initially shoot film or digital, once your images are in your computer, you probably create several different kinds of output. In fact, prints may be an increasingly rare form of output for many photographers.

Aperture provides a large array of output options, from electronic to print, and in this chapter, we’ll look at all of them.

Defining Presets

Because Aperture never alters your master files, the original pixel dimensions of your images are always preserved. This means that you’re always working on full-resolution files. If you need to output an image at a different size or resolution, that resizing is performed ...