Fellow Inside Aperture writer, Josh Anon will be giving a talk this coming Thursday night at CocoaHeads on the main Apple campus in Cupertino, CA. Josh will be talking about writing an Aperture plugin and his experiences writing his recent Lightbox XMP plugin. For more information check out Scott Stevenson’s site, and if you think you might be able to take a video of Josh’s talk, I would love to get a copy for my files!

Josh’s Bio from Inside Aperture

Josh Anon is a technical director at Pixar Animation Studios (with credits ranging from software engineering to cinematography) and an instructor at BetterPhoto.com.

His photographic experience includes over 10 years as a nature photographer and work in both stock and freelance photography. He founded Lightbox Software and wrote one of the first professional image management tools for Mac OS X, Lightbox, as well as various tools for Aperture and iPhoto.

Recently, he co-authored Aperture Exposed (Wiley, 2006). You can find out more about Josh and his photography at www.joshanon.com.

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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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