Setting up an Aperture Plugin is pretty easy. As I have written about in the past, you can, in about 10 minutes or so, have a plugin built and installed and running in Aperture. The plugin wont do much, but it will at least export images.

This is not to say however, that all you need to do is click “Build.” There is a little more to it than that, but not much.
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Back in February I wrote a post about my initial experiences with the Aperture SDK. At that point I had accomplished the basics. I downloaded and installed the SDK, I read through the template, and after editing a few of the template’s place holders I had built a plugin. Of course the plugin did nothing more than send exported images to my desktop, but it worked.
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The makers of Soundslides, a Flash based slideshow generator, have quietly released an update to their Aperture plugin, fixing a few minor bugs.

Get the latest versions for both the plugin and Soundslides by following the links below.

Soundslides 1.5.1 (459)
http://soundslides.com/release/soundslides/current/soundslides.dmg

Plug-in:
http://soundslides.com/release/other/Soundslides.ApertureExport.zip

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There is a really great interview with Connected Flow’s Fraser Speirs on the Late Night Cocoa Podcast. Fraser, the developer of the FlickrExport plugin for Aperture from Connected Flow goes into great detail about the Aperture Export SDK.

If you are considering developing a plugin for Aperture this would certainly be a great way to get things started. Fraser talks about each piece of the Aperture Plugin template and offers great insights about what one should consider when developing a plugin for Aperture.

You can listen to the podcast here.

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Software developer Ubermind has released a new plugin for Aperture which allows extended capability for sending images via FTP.

According to Ubermind’s press release:

Seattle, Washington—April 2, 2006—Ubermind, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of the ApertureToFTP Pro export plug-in for Aperture 1.5. The ApertureToFTP Pro plug-in allows you to export images directly from your Aperture library with an interface that’s as straight-forward and easy to use as your mac.

Other plug-ins offer a basic means to transfer images to ftp servers, but by adding features like remote file browsing, new folder creation and bookmarked servers, ApertureToFTP Pro provides the type of user experience that mac users have come to expect and cherish. Photographers are already enjoying the power and ease which Aperture provides in editing and organizing their images, they no longer have to settle for a primitive ftp plug-in when it comes time to upload their images.

To download Ubermind’s latest release click here.

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As we mentioned before, the blogger known as Bagelturf has been chronicling the process of writing an Aperture plugin on his site for some time now. Well, his plugin, named Random Wok, is now available for free download at his site.

Random Wok is a nifty tool, which allows a user to export images from Aperture and rename the files using a random filename. The filenames can be appended with both a prefix and a postfix.

The Random Wok Aperture export plugin gives the names of the images it exports random file names. Random file names are useful if you want to hide the sequence or meaning of the file names or if a random ordering is needed for a program that displays them in alphabetical order.

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Lightbox Software has just released Lightbox XMP, an Aperture plugin which allows for extended export of images with XMP sidecar files. Lightbox, which is known for its professional image management software says this product is meant to be used as a tool for Aperture users and is separate from their own image management package.

Lightbox Software is pleased to announce the
release of Lightbox XMP, an export plugin for Apple Aperture, which
provides full XMP export support. The plugin supports everything from
creating sidecar XMP files, containing IPTC and EXIF data, for referenced
master images to embedding XMP data into exported files. Lightbox XMP is a
free download, with a donation requested to encourage future plugin
development, available at http://www.lightboxsoftware.com/aperture/.

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