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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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If you have been patiently waiting for a way to share your Aperture library over a network with multiple users, you’ll want to check out PHPture.

PHPture, created by a software developer from The Netherlands has just been released as a free download and open source project. This new web application allows Aperture users to share their libraries via a web server, offering users an “Aperture-like” user interface complete with stacks, thumbnails, and a complete listing of all of your Aperture projects. By utilizing Aperture’s Previews, PHPture can make all of your image versions available to other computers on your network, or via the web.

I spent about a half hour figuring out how to install PHPture and although there are a few important pieces you will need to be sure you have installed, the installation was pretty simple. Once installed I was able to view my Aperture library in Safari. I could download the Master image file (if it was available) or a version preview image.

The interface is very similar to Aperture in that you can customize the view, hide panels, and get quick access to metadata. There is even a HUD-like view for keywords, which you can use in PHPture to search through your library.

Although PHPture is in its infancy, I can easily see this application becoming a really useful tool. Since setting up a local web server in a home is so easy now with OS X, an application like PHPture makes really good sense. And, if I want to be able to have access to my Aperture library from a remote location, or allow clients to view a project online, PHPture could easily become the tool for the job.

I really hope this application, and others like it begin to take off in the not too distant future. These are just the types of tools Aperture users are really waiting for!

For more information, be sure to check out PHPture at http://phpture.sourceforge.net

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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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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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Aperture Plugged In is pleased to announce a new Downloads page. This page will contain downloads for plugins we have developed as freeware as well as any companion source code for the tutorials on this site.

If you have been following along with the Email Pro plugin tutorial, you can now download the source code for the Sample Project we have been discussing.

Once we are to a point in the turotial series where we are discussing the Email Pro plugin, I will make the source available for download as well.

Enjoy!

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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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