Aperture takes care of your photos from the moment you import them to the time they’re ready to be shown to your friends, family or clients. The sharing aspect is actually quite a big part of this program and you have a lot of options available to you depending on what you’re looking for.
If it’s a simple matter of sending a handful of shots, you can use email by selecting the photos in question and clicking on the appropriate button in the toolbar. An email message will be automatically created for you and you’ll even be able to choose the resolution of your pictures. But this is just for starters: you can also send your photos to your Facebook or Flickr account, or even your Photostream if you have an iCloud account. But these options can feel a little bare.
A slideshow may be the best way to present your photographs.
A more elegant and elaborate solution would be to create books in a manner similar to what you can achieve with iPhoto, although you’re given many more options to play with in Aperture. Unfortunately, the drawback here is that it can take days for those books to be printed and sent to you or your recipient.
So if you’re looking for something more immediate but also more interesting than simply sharing individual photos, you should consider making a slideshow. The process is incredibly simple: you can choose to automate it by selecting a theme, which looks beautiful but offers little to no customization; or you can go for a basic style that you can tweak to your heart’s content.
We’ll show you various options in this tutorial. Once your slideshow looks as good as it can, click the Export button, top-right of the interface. Select the device you’d like to render it for (be it for an iPhone, iPad, HDTV or a custom size) and you’re good to go.
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