New answers tagged apple-aperture
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I'm not sure why you awarded that answer. It's absolutely fixable easily with aperture. I've spent less than 5 minutes on this and already got decent result.
This is your exposure -2EV:
This is what I got to (different from above but it's even better imo):
All I did was brush in levels set to:
Followed by setting recovery to 0.14 (because some ...
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There are two approaches that work for this image:
Go to Highlights/Shadows. Enter "150" as the highlights value (or
drag it there by dragging over the number, not using the slider
handle), probably also increase Mid Contrast to about 20. Brush in
that adjustment on just the sign. This looks much like the negative
exposure adjustment.
Open Levels ...
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I tried to see if I could find a way to get Aperture to desired the required result on the image you supplied, but I could not. I though that it should be possible by a curve adjustment, but lovering the curve also made the color in the photo much less vibrant. Maybe this could be countered with other adjustments, but then it is definately not a simple way.
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Where is your scratch drive? While your files may be on a fast drive, eventually your software is going to have to cache the results of processing somewhere. That's normally done to a scratch drive/folder somewhere. I don't know Aperture specifically, but this is generally a setting somewhere in the software. If your scratch drive is slow and/or highly ...
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I wrote this script to Rename and File Aperture Projects by Date. It helps clean up unfiled
projects.
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Rather than looking for an "exposure" brush, you should be looking at the burn (darken) and dodge (lighten) brushes. What you want for this image is the burn brush, which darkens a particular area under the brush.
You'll want to consider whether to turn on the "Detect Edges" option, which will constrain the effect whenever it finds an obvious edge/boundary ...
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I came up with another solution that utilize the very nice feature of Mac OS X: Automator!
Automator allows you to do batch type of tasks easily. Open automator from your applications and in the opening dialog select workflow. Then from side-bar drag the items (in order) to the left panel. You can find them by searching the titles in the search-box (e.g. ...
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