A student software developer by the name of Sean Farley has just released a plugin for Aperture that allows easy uploading of images to the social networking website, Facebook.com. Sean, a PhD student in Mathematics has converted most of the code for Facebook’s iPhoto plugin, originally developed by Facebook’s own Josh Wiseman.

The plugin allows you to select any number of photos, and tag each person’s face, by clicking in the image. Once you are finished, the plugin uploads the tagged photos to your Facebook.com account.

Sean says the plugin is still largely under construction, although he has made some major improvements, including a fix that keeps Aperture from crashing when displaying the upload progress bar. He has also added functionality to add a ‘Facebook’ keyword to each uploaded image, and the plugin will add facebook tags to your photos via Aperture’s keywords.

Sean is currently leaving this project as open source and you can download his source files from his website at http://seanfarley.org/aperture.

You may need to download and install the framework MKAbeFook in order to get his plugin to work properly. The framework is also available from his website, and you can install it simply by copying the framework folder into your /Library/Frameworks directory.

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Fraser Speirs of Connected Flow has updated his FlickrExport plugin for aperture fixing a minor bug. The latest version and release notes can be downloaded here.

Frasier has also started offering a free or "Lite" version of his FlickrExport plugin. This FlickrExport Lite plugin will replace the old "Flickr Plugin" and is available for free download from Fraser’s website.

The paid version (£14) of FlickrExport boasts the following features:

• Edit photo titles and descriptions, and add tags to them.
• Create a new photoset with your photos, or add them to an existing photoset.
• Automatically send your photos to a Group Pool on Flickr.
• Choose from a list of your Flickr tags and add them to your photos before uploading.
• Automatically add an Aperture keyword to each photo uploaded.
• Add Flickr photo ID and URL to Aperture metadata.
• Replace existing photos on Flickr with updated versions from Aperture.
• Edit Geo data before uploading and integrate with Google Earth to locate your pictures.

The "Lite" version offers the following:

• Unlimited uploading to Flickr.
• Creation of photosets.
• Conversion of Aperture keywords to Flickr tags.

For more information and to download the latest version of FlickrExport or FlickrExport Lite, check out Connected Flow.

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Software development company Übermind has just announced a new Aperture plugin that allows the export of images to a FileMaker database.

ApertureToFilemaker 1.0 boasts the following features.

• Support for multiple FileMaker databases
• Automatically creates schema and table structure
• Inserts photo and 120+ pieces of metadata
• Keychain support

For more information visit Übermind’s website here.

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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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Software Developer Mark S. Morris has announced a new plugin for Aperture called PhotoUpLink. PhotoUpLink allows Aperture users to export images to a variety of destinations including FTP locations and ODBC databases. The plugin, which is also available for iPhoto users and works with video, can be downloaded from Mark’s website here.

For more information on the PhotoUpLink plugin for Aperture, read the latest press release below.
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The ApertureToGallery plugin, originally developed and made available at AperturePlugins is now being distributed by Ubermind, the same folks who brought you ApertureToFTP Pro.

The latest version of ApertureToGallery adds support for editable Gallery entries, a sorted list of Albums and improved error handling.
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The ever expanding Flash Album Exporter plugin for Aperture has been updated to add support for BananAlbum from Rudin Swagerman. The plugin is now officially freeware, though donations are always welcome.

Flash Album Exporter is a plugin for Aperture that can create photo album web pages using a handful of freeware Flash and JavaScript image applications.

In addition to BananAlbum, Flash Album Exporter provides support for SimpleViewer, PostcardViewer and AutoViewer, from Airtight Interactive as well as GreyBox from Orangoo Labs and Lightbox from Lokesh Dhakar.

For more information or to download Flash Album Exporter click here.

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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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