Learning About Aperture Books
To create your own book, you select the images that you want to place in the book,
and then you create a new book album by choosing Book from the New pop-up menu
in the toolbar.
When you create a new book album, you can choose a book theme that determines
the overall look of the book. Aperture provides a variety of professionally designed
book themes.
When you choose a theme, the Book Layout Editor provides a set of master pages that
determine how you mix text and images on the page. You’ll find that master pages
provide a fast and convenient method for quickly laying out a book.
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You can apply a master page design to any selected page. Pages appear with gray
photo boxes to hold images, and text boxes to hold text. To add images, you drag them
into the photo boxes from the Browser. To add text, you select a text box and type or
paste text into it.
Selected text box
If you prefer, you can build a book page by page. You can add a new page to your
book, choose a master page design, fill in images and text, and then create the next
page, repeating the procedure for each page you add.
As you work on a book, you may need to adjust the layout of individual pages. For
example, you may discover that one image in a group should appear slightly larger. You
can move and resize the boxes that hold images on individual pages, making minor
layout adjustments when a master page design doesn’t quite suffice. You can also
create your own master pages to make custom books.
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In addition, you can add maps to your pages that automatically show where the
images in the book were taken.
You can add a map to a selected page and have it show the locations of images that
you place around the map.
When your book is complete, you can purchase printed and bound copies from the
Apple print vendor for a fee. If you prefer to print your book yourself, you can print
your book using your own printer or export your book as a PDF file that you can send
to a print shop for printing. Be sure to check out the many features of Aperture book
albums in the Aperture User Manual, available in Aperture Help.
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