Using the Loupe in Aperture

Video Transcript

"BRANDON SARKIS: My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'll be showing you how to use Apple's Aperture program for the Mac. Okay, the next thing I'm going to show you is some editing on this photo. So, what I want to do is I want to be able to see this photo full screen. So I'm going to hit the F key--oops, I'm going to hit the F key now, and I've actually selected this as my application. It's going to take it a second. Okay, so here's my image opened up. I'm also going to hit utility key to open up my loop. Loop's a pretty neat feature. It allows you to really zoom in on a particular area to get an idea of the detail. So I'm going to take it and zoom in on this car. There we go. And this gives you an idea of how much line detail there is in a photo. You can also see seams and edges, and get an idea of how big you can blow a photo up as well. You can se here, I'm clicking on this little box and I can adjust the zoom, I can adjust it up to 1600 percent, which is a whole lot--that's obviously, you can see a big blob. Keep it 100 percent, which means I'm going to see it at full size, the way the image would actually print. You can also grab a hold of this little handle and shrink the loop or grow it to see fit. And there's also another option you can do here--oops, which is focus on cursor or focus on loop. I use it on focus on loop. If you use it on focus on cursor, every point where--if I'm going to update the loop. Problem is, is that it's a little sluggish sometimes and that--I don't feel you don't have enough control because once you're with the loop and drop the loop somewhere, then I can go to my adjustments side and make all the adjustments I need to make. As opposed to this way, wherever I move around, is what I'm going to see in the loop, and I can't really adjust it cause as I roll the mouse off screen, or the cursor off screen, then I'm going to zoom in and lose track of what I was actually focusing in on. So let's shrink our master image and I'll hit F to back, back out--utility key to turn the loop off."