Tutorials
Adding Borders to Photos in a Book
When creating photo books in Aperture, you can design your own page layouts to make one-of-a-kind custom books. One way to introduce a personal touch to your designs is to add a custom border to any photo box.
- Open a book layout in an Aperture project. (To make a new book, select some photos in a project, click the New button in the toolbar, and choose Book from the pop-up menu.) Then choose a theme.
- Click the Edit Layout button in the book layout toolbar, just above the Pages pane. This allows you to change the actual layout of your book pages — moving, resizing, adding and deleting photo and text boxes on the pages.
- From the Action pop-up menu just below the Pages pane, choose Show Layout Options. The Size & Position and Photo Border controls appear just above the Pages pane.
- Select a photo box on one of the book pages. If it doesn’t have a photo in it, drag a photo thumbnail from the Browser into the photo box.
- With the photo box selected, use the arrow buttons on the Thickness control in the Photo Border pane to add a border to the box. Hold down the Option key when clicking the arrows to increase or decrease the border thickness in smaller increments. You can also type in a specific thickness.
- Click the Color swatch in the Photo Border pane to bring up the standard Mac OS X color picker, which you can use to choose the color of the border.
