Review: Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture
by Magnus
The Aperture title by Orlando Luna and Ben Long is a part of Peachpit’s Apple Pro Training Series. We’ve come to expect a lot from titles in this series and once again it doesn’t let us down. This title is about 500 pages and full of step by step instructions on how to operate Aperture.
It has easy to follow directions with plenty of screenshots and sample photographs to help you see what’s going on. This is a book you sit down with at the computer and work with step by step, it’s not so much of a reference book that you can come back to later. There is also a a DVD with all the exercise files on it, so you won’t have to recreate everything from scratch just to follow the instructions.
The Apple Pro Training Series of books are meant to take you to a level where you can take an Apple Certification Exam. As far as I know there are still no Certification for Aperture so from that point of view this book is a bit misplaced, but that’s not something we can blame the authors or PeachPit for, I think.
The book seem to cover all the basics but it also goes into more depth, for example there is a section on how to automate Aperture with Automator. I think if you’ve used Aperture quite a bit you probably won’t benefit much from this title. However, if you’re just getting started with Aperture, this is a good choice for you.
Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture sell in the US for around $40 and you can find it at
http://www.peachpit.com/bookstore/pr...sbn=0321422767. PeachPit provided the copy of the book for this review. We will raffle off the book at a future EMUG meeting so make sure you attend.