I am using Aperture 3 on my Mac.

This is my first time using Aperture for complex photo work. In the past I have used Photoshop (PS) on my Windows based computers.
I shot pictures of jewelry using a light box and my Canon with a macro lens. I want to clean up the background. In PS I would use the wand and highlight the background and then use the paint bucket. How can I do this in Aperture?...Can I do this in Aperture?

Aperture has no wand to select a specific color or range of colors, but you can apply adjustment selectively with brushes. Ii will depend on  what the background looks like, what kind of adjustment you need to brush in - darken or lighten with dodge and burn, retouching irreguarities, lowering the contrast, blurring, changing the color.
You can restrict the brushrange by applying the brush selectively to the midtones, highlights, shadows, and you can enable edge detection to avoid brushing across structures.
For example, in this picture I used the black-and-white brush to brush the background color away. The background was too yellow for my taste:
But if you still have Photoshop in addition to Aperture, you can simply set up Photoshop as an external editor in Aperture's Preferences panel. Then you can use the command "Photos > Edit with External editor" to send your image to Photoshop for editing. The edited image version will be returned to your Aperture library.
Regards
Léonie

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