Tip:Discover Aperture 2 & find the hidden Treasures a quick way in producing a simple layout for the client or very useful for the web…Aperture’s Book option come in very handy for other things besides creating stunning looking books.

Send a simple looking postcard design to your client letting him know that you are on location, or show him a sample of your latest images, “Postcards style” or use it for a blog post like I have done today. The possibilities are endless thanks to the Book option in Aperture…I am not going into great details today but rather point out the endless possibilities in Aperture 2 without ever leaving the application.

Book interface

Screenshot above:
Marked with
red the drop down menus for Themes, Set Master Page and Book Action (there you find the Auto flow unplaced images) and the Print option where you find the Preview (use this for the Screenshot) and all the other pdf formats you ever going to need.

Play around with the Book option, even if you don’t produce a complete Book right now and you find there are a lot of things you can do, use a small number of images first and experiment.
Lets call it
“Discover Aperture & find the hidden Treasures”
Lets be honest, with most applications you have to experiment a bit and soon you discover things which you cant find in the Help menu.
Open Aperture and select the images you like for your “Book” then click the Book Icon pick a Theme (the screenshot shows the
Stock Book Black) and if you in a hurry choose Auto flow unplaced images and you are almost done, click Print “Book” and select Preview.
Now I did a simple Screen shot with the ever so handy and very cool Snapz Pro X and it was done
Not a high end out put but something you might need for reasons explained above a handy and quick layout, great for email attachments or blogs, etc.

2 Aperture Book layout
Attach this to your Mail or use it for your Web or Blog pages

These are only simple tips in case you have a need for them, my advise is experiment a bit and you find Aperture 2 has a lot more usages then you think. But never leaving Aperture is for me a real plus and very handy if you are on the road with limited time, after all we should spend more time shooting. Of course you can get very serious and have all the pdf options at you disposal and create some very cool professional looking Books.
Have fun and enjoy,
GD