How to select trapezium like crop?

The only options in Aperture to hide areas are the elliptical "Matte" and "Vignette" in the iPhoto Effects brick, for example.

The vignette can give you dark triangles in the corners, if set to the right size, but not a trapezoid.

You might consider other photographic options to hide details, like softening the background by blurring, burning, polarizing, or retouching with a dark shade.

What do you suggest me the best Photo editing software in AppStore like Photoshop or even better?

What do mean by "best"? Do you need a professional app, that can do advanced and elaborate graphics compositing, 3D effects, etc, or an easy to use tool, that can do easy to use many neat effects, but not everything?

Old Toad posted a nice list of easy to use photo editors supporting graphics here: (the prices may have changed by now)

Re: does anyone know how to put text on iphoto pics

Photoshop Elements 11 for Mac - $79Rainbow Painter - $30
Imagerie - $38
Acorn - $50

Pixelmator - $60

Seashore - Free

Portraits and Prints - Free

GIMP for Mac - Free

Xee 2.1 - free

It sounds as if you want to create new graphics entities. Aperture doesn't do that. It is a workflow for taking files created by digital cameras, storing and organizing them, making them as good as they can be _as a single photo_, and then publishing them into shareable image-format files.

Graphics programs are designed from the ground up to handle compositing (i.e.: to make a composite from separate parts). They combine graphic elements into a new graphic entity. Photoshop is the most widely used compositor, but there are many more accessible programs (e.g.: Pixelmator, which gets recommended here regularly) and even one as powerful as Photoshop but free (GIMP, also regularly recommended here).

The answers are the same. You will need to use a graphics program. This can be done as a plug-in, but (imho) the proper workflow is to make the photo as good as it can be for your use, create a new, shareable, image-format file by exporting your Image from Aperture, and then producing the _graphics entity_ you want by using a graphics program.

Aperture's use of layers is specific to adjustments, and is much more limited than the layer controls you'll find in any graphics program. Cropping is limited to rectangles, as Léonie initially responded.

Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger - typos.

Aperture - like Lightroom - is primarily for image asset management. Pixel level editing is not its strong suit. It is intended to do several oft needed adjustments but pass the heavy lifting to photoshop.

Thankyou for all your replies. I am using the Aperture application, the first time. I am so upset. What is Aperture? Is it not like Photoshop? Is it not a still picture editing software? Can anybody explain in a layman language.

As Keith says - Aperture is great for image asset management - organize and tag all your images for easy retrieval. And the editing options are focussing on the photometric properties (color and luminance) of the image - raw developement, color correction, noise reduction, adjust the contrast. Most of these can be applied locally with brushes for a very subtle correction.

In addition to that, you have the retouche and clone brushes to hide minor glitches.

Just think of the things you would be able to do to your photos in a real darkroom.

But as Kirby pointed out, Aperture is no tool to combine images into one or to add graphics.

iPhoto Effects Adjustment Brick?!?! Learn something new every day 🙂 .

Please see my previous answer.

Before you ask any more, find out what Aperture is, and what it does.

Resources.

You can't, sorry.

Aperture will only crop to rectangular formats.

Use an external editor for other crop-shapes.

Cute! 😎

I think it is also important to stress that the proper comparison to a product in Adobe's ecosystem is to Lightroom, not PhotoShop.