This is the second part of an ongoing series of articles that will hopefully shed some light on developing an Aperture Edit Plugin. This series is not meant to be a tutorial, but more of a documentation of my personal efforts to create a plugin for use in a two year long art project I will begin working on this fall. This art project is also going to be documented over at my website called Entropy Art. Please feel free to check it out, sign up and participate in any way that you would like. Also, I am making the source code for this plugin available as open source. As it is still just basically a template, I haven’t felt the need to choose a license for it yet, but I will eventually. For now, please feel free to download the code and contribute any ideas you would like.
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I have a need to start working on an Aperture Edit plugin for personal reasons. For the next two years I will be working towards an MFA in Photographic and Electronic Media at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore Maryland. During this experience I will be taking lots of pictures, and developing a long term documentary project. However, in addition to my traditional work, I will be adding a component to my exhibition and thesis that has to do with the visualization of my images.

You can read more about this at the website I have set up to document my project at Entropy Art.

Using an Aperture Edit plugin to manage my digital image processing makes perfect sense to me. I can create a suite of routines, have them be customizable in any way I want, and have them directly integrated with Aperture. This will keep my workflow simple and will keep all of my images and thesis work in one place.
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Facebook Exporter is a free plugin from Sean Farley, which allows the export of photos directly from Aperture to Facebook.

This plugin has a variety of features which can be seen on Sean’s blog. A free download is available there as well.

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Image Trends has released a new edit plugin for Aperture called Fisheye-Hemi.

Fisheye-Hemi allows photographers who use hemispherical fisheye lenses to straighten their images using a number of filters to achieve the best possible result.

The plugin is available as a free trial and sells for $29.95. To find out if Fisheye-Hemi works with your camera and lens combination be sure to visit their website at Image Trends, and for more information about how the plugin works, be sure to check out their tech page here.

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Reihard Ubel has updated his BorderFX plugin to version 1.1. This new version adds the following features.

1. Updated to work with Aperture 2.0
2. Drop Shadow around the image.
3. Flip image horizontally and/or vertically.
4. Automatic image scaling now allows manual adjustment, to crop part of the image.
5. Scale the image, between sized to fit in border, and 100%.
6. Apply sharpening to image after scaling.
7. New options for Title and Copyright text, including drop shadow.
8. Improved zooming.
9. Improved User Interface.

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Juan Leon recently released Aperture2Gmail v0.5. The update includes a few new features as well as a host of bug fixes.

Some of the new features include:

1. Added support for Google Apps for Your Domain
2. Added Contact List Searching
3. Added optional “Emailed To” Keyword/tagging with recipients and Time stamps.
4. Support for the official Google API. The logging in process should be faster and error messages should be easier to understand.
5. Bug fixes.

You can download the plugin here and you can check out the Change Log for more details.

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Fraser Spears has recently bumped FlickrExport to 1.0.8. The update includes a bug fix and work around for an Aperture 2.0 and 2.0.1 bug. The full details can be read here. The update is available for free to current user and a new license will run buyers the usual £14.

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David Holmes has released updates to his slew of Aperture plugins, bringing them up to date for use with Aperture 2.0.

Holmes currently has plugins for use with the popular websites, Zenfolio, SmugMug and Phanfare.

For more information or to download a free copy of any of these plugins, be sure to visit his website here.

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Übermind has recently released updates for ÜberÜpload,Aperture to Picasa, and Aperture to Archive.

ÜberÜpload 2.0.1, Aperture to Picasa 1.3.2, and Aperture to Archive 1.1.2 updates have “Resolved Aperture compatibility issues” with Aperture 2. ÜberÜpload runs $24.95, Aperture to Picasa runs $24.95, and Aperture to Archive runs $14.95. All three products have a free 15-day trial version for download.

From their press release:

SEATTLE, Washington—March 12, 2008 — Übermind, Inc., the market leader in the development of Aperture export plug-ins, today introduced updated versions of three of it’s most popular products: ÜberUpload for Aperture, Aperture to Picasa Web Albums, and Aperture to Archive. Reengineered to take full advantage of Aperture 2’s new, streamlined architecture, the updates build upon Übermind’s tradition of simplifying complex digital processes via intuitive, elegant user interfaces.
“Whether it’s transferring your images to a remote FTP/SFTP server, uploading them to Google’s Picasa Web Albums, or creating compressed archives of them, our plug-ins are all about streamlining your workflow. Enhancements made to the export process in Aperture 2 have allowed us to
redesign our plug-ins to make them faster than ever before,” said Shehryar Khan, Ubermind’s CEO. “Now, our plug-ins take full advantage of Aperture 2’s background export functionality, officially ending the days of waiting for your export to complete.”

Pricing and Availability

New versions of ÜberUpload for Aperture, Aperture to Picasa Web Albums, and Aperture to Archive are available for direct download from Übermind’s website. The updates, free for existing customers, retail for as low as $14.95. Users can always try a fully functional version of these plug-ins free for 15 days. At any time users can easily purchase a software license from within the plug-in.

Übermind’s expertise in integrating large enterprise systems, combined with it’s knowledge of designing intuitive user interfaces, has provided a solid foundation for developing high-quality export plug-ins for
Aperture.

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Fraser Speirs of Connected flow is at it again! FlickrExport has just been updated to version 1.0.7. This new version is the first plugin we have seen that has specific features for users of Aperture 2.0. FlickrExport now takes advantage of Aperture’s handling of lens EXIF data and will automatically tag the image to the lens in Flickr.

This feature is only available for users of the paid version of FlickrExport, which runs £14. The plugin remains compatible with Aperture version 1.5.

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