Installing Your Software

1 Installing Your Software The following information is intended to get you up and running with Aperture as quickly as possible and covers the following topics: Â About the Aperture Installation Disc (p. 2) Â Upgrading Mac OS X (p. 3) Â Installing Aperture (p. 3) Â Registering Aperture (p. 6) Â About the Aperture Sample Projects (p. 7) Â About Onscreen Help (p. 7) Â Contacting AppleCare Support (p. 10) Make sure to also review the Before You Install Aperture document on the Aperture installation disc. For the latest information about Aperture, go to the Aperture website at http://www.apple.com/aperture. About the Aperture Installation Disc The Aperture 2 installation disc contains: Â Before You Install Aperture: This document provides system requirements and things to do before you install Aperture and its accompanying content. Â Aperture installer: Double-click the Aperture installer icon to begin the installation process. Â Documentation folder: This folder contains Installing Your Software (a PDF version of this document) and the Aperture User Manual. Open the Aperture User Manual to view other Aperture PDF documentation, including Exploring Aperture and Aperture Keyboard Shortcuts. Â Sample Projects folder: This folder provides sample projects with images to be viewed in Aperture, as well as a short document containing information about the sample projects. Note: The installation disc contains the files required to install Aperture 2 on either PowerPC-based or Intel-based Mac computers. The installation process is identical for both. 2 Upgrading Mac OS X Before you install Aperture, update your system software to make sure that you have Mac OS X v10.4.11 Tiger or Mac OS X v10.5.2 Leopard (or later) installed. Important: You must purchase Mac OS X v10.4. Tiger or Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard if you’re upgrading from an earlier version. To update Mac OS X v10.4 or Mac OS X v10.5 to the latest available version: 1 Choose Apple menu > Software Update. A dialog appears showing new or updated software available for your computer. 2 Follow the onscreen instructions to update Mac OS X to the latest version. Installing Aperture When you install Aperture, the application is placed in the Applications folder on the hard disk you specify, typically your startup disk. By default, the Aperture installer installs the Aperture application on your hard disk, along with documentation and sample projects to help you get started using the various tools in Aperture for managing, processing, and publishing your photos. Note: Before you can install Aperture, you must log in to your computer with an administrator account, using the administrator password. See Mac Help for more information. Warning: If your system does not meet the minimum system requirements, installation of Aperture may not be allo…