I just downloaded a version of Apple Aperture, I finished working on a image & I don't know how to save it. If I go to file there is not a save like in photoshop. Can anyone help??
Thanks Paul
You do not need to "save" it. All the adjustments are recorded and saved as you go. What happens is your original is never actually touched. All the adjustments are saved as a file to apply inside Aperture when you open it. You can remove the adjustments anytime. When you export a version you will get a file with the adjustments applied. If you export Masters you will get the original file without the adjustments. Hopefully this makes sense.
If Aperture is anything like Lightroom, you can export the file from Aperture in different formats, such as a TIFF or PSD file - then open the file in Photoshop and then make additional adjustments.
I LOVE Aperture, and I use it, almost exclusively, for my professional work.
Yes, it's basically the same philosophy as Lightroom, but spiced differently, with a different set of engineers determining the RAW processing (results of which I prefer to Adobe CR).
You import your RAW files (or non-RAW files, though that kinda defeats much of the point). Organize them in Aperture. Use Aperture as at least one level of back up. Each image has a Master (which you don't see) and one or more Versions (which you see when you're looking at an image). The Version is really just a tiny file with instructions telling Aperture what you've done to the Master (say, bump contrast, lower exposure, shift white balance, crop). If you right-click on a version, you can duplicate it (meaning make another version from the same master with the same "Edits" you've already made), or make a new version from the Master without any edits applied yet. You can have as many Versions of a Master file as you want. You can put those Versions in different albums, projects, whatever.
This makes the editing process non-destructive.
When you have a Version the way you like it-- of if you prefer to do lots of local edits, the kind of thing that Aperture/Lightroom is not designed for but Photoshop is-- you then right-click the version, and choose Export Version. You'll get a dialogue box for saving the image, and drop down menus for what formats you want to save in and what naming convention to use. There are a list of pretty good options-- but you can customize those. So, for instance, I have a thumbnail preset for exporting I use pretty often.
You can also round-trip a file via Photoshop if you want to do the RAW processing in Aperture, send it to Photoshop for local edits as a PSD, TIFF, JPG (or whatever), and then re-import that file as a new Master in Aperture with the edits made. I don't tend to do this, personally, because those local edits go against the main type of work I do (photojournalism).
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Thanks Greg
Is there anyway you go import a photo when finished into photoshop??
You can "round-trip" a file into Photoshop right from Aperture. In the preferences you set the external editing program. Then when you right mouse click on your photo you can select Photoshop. It will open as a tiff in Photoshop and then when you close Photoshop it will appear next to your original in Aperture
