How to make a background white in Aperture?

I take photos of shoes in a light box with a white background. I want the resulting photos to have a dead white background except for a bit of shadow. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. I want to stay in Aperture and not have to move the images into Photoshop. How do I do this while still keeping the colours on the shoes true?

If the shoes are mainly mid-tone, you could just bump the contrast up a little.
You could also probably just adjust the tone curve a bit to force "almost white" to "white"
http://support.apple.com/kb/VI175

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