Editing tab overview

Interface Overview

Top Toolbar

The Top Toolbar in Aperty provides quick access to core tools and settings, making it easy to manage projects, add images, edit, and access important image details. Each feature is essential for organizing, enhancing, and exporting your portraits.

Top Toolbar Features:

• Main Menu: Shows options for overall application settings, preferences, and help resources to customize your Aperty workspace and access support.

• Projects: Shows a menu to create, open, and manage projects, helping you stay organized, especially when working on multiple portrait sessions.

• Add Images: Shows an option to import new images into your current project, making it simple to add additional portraits to your workflow.

• Erase & Clone: Shows tools for removing unwanted elements from your portrait and seamlessly filling in areas, ideal for quick retouching or background cleanup.

• Dodge & Burn: Shows tools for selectively lightening or darkening areas, allowing you to add depth or emphasize specific details in your portraits.

• Image Information: Shows key metadata about your image, such as ISO, focal length, f-stop, and shutter speed, which can be useful for understanding exposure settings and making informed editing choices.

• Export Tab: Shows options for saving and exporting your finished portraits in various formats and resolutions, ready for sharing or printing.

Use the Image Information feature to review your camera settings, which can guide your editing decisions—such as adjusting exposure or contrast—based on the original capture conditions.

Bottom Toolbar

The Bottom Toolbar in Aperty provides essential tools for managing, previewing, and organizing images in your editing workflow. Each feature is designed to help you stay efficient, especially when working with multiple portraits.

Bottom Toolbar Features:

• Favorite or Mark for Reject: Shows options to mark images as "Favorite" for easy access to your best shots, or "Reject" for photos you don’t want to keep, simplifying your selection process.

• Copy Edits: Shows a tool to copy edits from one image and apply them to others, ensuring a consistent look across a series of portraits. This is especially useful when editing similar shots or batch processing.

• Filename Display: Shows each image’s filename, helpful for organizing and keeping track of specific photos in larger projects.

• Zoom Window: Shows a control to adjust the zoom level of your image view, letting you zoom in for detail work or zoom out to see the full portrait composition.

• Comparison View: Shows a split screen of the original and edited versions, allowing you to compare changes in real time and fine-tune your adjustments.

• Preview: Shows a toggle to view the original photo versus the edited version to assess changes before finalizing.

• Show or Hide Filmstrip: Shows a button to display or hide the Filmstrip, allowing for a cleaner workspace or quick access to other images when needed.

• Sort Images: Shows options to sort your image library by various attributes (like date, rating, or filename) to quickly locate specific portraits.

Use the Favorite and Reject features early in your workflow to quickly separate the best portraits from less successful shots, streamlining your editing process and helping you focus on the images that matter most.