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Apple will be offering a presentation on developing Aperture plugins at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June. The presentation will feature explanations of how to use the Aperture SDK, along with information about Aperture’s database and and transfer of metadata between Aperture and an export plugin.

WWDC, which takes place from June 11th-15th in San Francisco, attracts thousands of software and hardware engineers each year. Billed as Apple’s largest annual event for developers, this year’s WWDC will feature a keynote address by Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs himself.

For more information or to purchase tickets to WWDC, have a look at http://developer.apple.com/wwdc.

Session: 407 - Extending the Aperture RAW Workflow with Export Plug-Ins

Aperture provides a revolutionary RAW-focused workflow to import, manage, edit, adjust, export, and archive your images more effectively and efficiently than ever before. Learn how to access Aperture’s images and extensive metadata using export plug-ins. Extend the Aperture workflow to integrate images with your application or web service. See how Aperture provides access to all its metadata and allows you to send metadata back into its database, completing the workflow loop.

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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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The Aperture Users Profesional Network will be hosting a launch party at this years WPPI conference in Las Vegas. The party is open to all, though space is limited, so be sure to RSVP. For more information see their announcement below, or visit the AUPN website at http://www.apertureprofessional.com

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