Plugins

Aperture BorderFX is a simple, but powerful plugin that allows you to add a variety of borders to your photos on export. Download Here.

Aperture Exporter for Lightbox Network is an Aperture plugin that allows quick and easy access to LightBox Network. Download here.

Übermind's Aperture to Archive is a simple and effective plugin to get images out of Aperture while saving disk space. Best of all, Aperture to Archive has no effect on image quality. Download here.

The Aperture to Final Cut Pro plugin lets you take your images stored in Apple's professional photo management application and send them directly to a video sequence in Final Cut Pro. Download the plugin here.

Übermind's Aperture to Picasa Web Albums plugin gives Aperture users a simple and convenient way to export their photos to Google's Picasa Web Albums. Special features include: support for creating new albums, automatically uploads Aperture keywords as Picasa tags, album selector with cover images, and keychain support. Download here.

ApertureToGMail is a plugin for Aperture that allows for fast and simple "gmailing" from within Aperture. Download here.

Übermind's ApertureToFileMaker plugin gives Aperture users a fast and easy way to export their photos to FileMaker. Special features include: support for multiple FileMaker databases, automatically creates schema and table structure, 120+ pieces of metadata, and keychain support. Download here.

Übermind's ApertureToFTP Pro plugin gives Aperture users a fast and easy way to export their photos to any web site or hard disk around the would via FTP. Special features include: support for multiple FTP server bookmarks, Mac OS X Finder style browsing of the remote server, multi-threading for responsive user-interface, create new folders on the remote server, keychain support. Download here.

Übermind's ApertureToGallery is an Aperture plugin that automates the process of getting photos from Aperture into Gallery. Get the latest version of the plugin here.

ApertureToPBase is an Apple Aperture export plug-in that uploads photos to PBase. Download here.

ApertureToPhanfare is a plug-in for Apple Aperture to export photos to Phanfare. Download here.

ApertureToSmugMug is a plug-in for Apple Aperture to export photos to SmugMug. Download here.

Zenfolio is an online storage and E-Commerce service for photographers offering cheap service. Now with David Holmes's ApertureToZenfolio plugin, Aperture users will benefit from seamless export within Aperture to the Zenfolio site. Download here.

Übermind's ÜberÜpload is a powerful FTP and SFTP export plugin for Aperture. It replaces their previous ApertureToFTP Pro. It is available from Übermind's website.

Offering high-end post-production services, Digital Fusion includes well-known magazines, film studios, and ad agencies among its clients. Using the firm’s DFStudio Plugins for Aperture, you can proof, edit, and deliver jobs to clients from anywhere in the world.

Digital Railroad’s unique Web-based digital workflow gives you the tools to easily manage, market and sell your images. Digital Railroad archive owners now have one-click upload access from Aperture with this new downloadable utility.

Another plugin by yours truly! DNGExporter takes advantage of the Adobe DNG Converter command line tool to offer a seamless method for exporting your RAW master images in the DNG format. Download the installer here.

Email Pro is a plugin for Aperture being written by Micah Walter. It is designed to be an export plugin offering additional functionality over the default Emailing capabilities of Aperture.

Sean Farley's FaceBook Exporter for Aperture allows quick and easy uploading of images to the social networking website, Facebook.com. Features include: Associate your Facebook friends with Aperture keywords, Automatically tag uploaded pictures with the keyword 'Facebook', and Automatically sort friend list based on who's been tagged. Download here.

Flash Album Exporter is a plugin for Apple's Aperture that creates a photo album web page using the popular image viewing applications SimpleViewer, PostCardViewer and AutoViewer from Airtight Interactive, as well as many others.

FlickrExport for Aperture is an export plugin for Aperture which provides a direct export interface to Flickr.com FlickrExport for Aperture provides all the features of the iPhoto version, plus: Automatically add an Aperture keyword to each photo uploaded. Add Flickr photo ID and URL to Aperture metadata. Replace existing photos on Flickr with updates versions from Aperture. Edit Geo data before uploading.

Connected Flow's Flcikr Export Lite is an Aperture plugin the allows simple export to Flickr.com. FlickrExport Lite is available as a free alternative of its bigger brother, FlickrExport. Download here.

One of the most prestigious stock agencies in the world, Getty Images represents the finest photographers, making millions of images available 24/7. The Getty Aperture Plug-in completely expedites the process of submitting photos to Getty Images by “Getty Photographers.”

GLOBALedit is a professional online image management photo collections and a suite of workflow tools that connect creative and business communities. To download the latest version of the plugin click here.

Providing the world’s preeminent collection of member-generated, royalty-free images, iStockPhoto represents more than 25,000 artists. The iStockphoto Plug-in connects you directly to iStockphoto, letting you batch-upload new images from anywhere in the world.

LightBox Software's LightBox XMP plugin for Aperture allows users to export XMP information, beyond what Aperture provides automatically. Download here.

After uploading your photos directly from Aperture using its export plug-in, PhotoReflect lets you establish a professional Internet store to market prints and photo-related products; generate email marketing campaigns; design custom storefronts; and more. get the plugin here.

PhotoShelter — the industry standard for online archiving, distribution and sales — has teamed up with Apple™ to provide best of breed workflow solutions for imaging professionals. The PhotoShelter Uploader plug-in allows you to export images from Aperture directly into your PhotoShelter archive to streamline the way you work.

Mark Morris's PhotoUpLink plugin for Aperture allows users to export their photos in a variety of ways. Special features include: FTP export, ODBC database support including MySQL, Excel spreadsheet support, and IPTC support among others. Download here.

Pictage makes the portfolios of “the world’s best wedding photographers” available to hundreds of thousands of potential clients. The Pictage plug-in makes submitting images to Pictage as simple as selecting a menu in Aperture.

Steve Weller's Random Wok plugin for Aperture lets users export photos with random names. Special features include: the ability to precisely control the file name parameters, a preview showing the photo and its name, and many more. Download here.

Used by photojournalists worldwide, Soundslides lets you easily create web presentations. Use the Soundslides plug-in to drop your selected images directly into a Soundslides project.

The SpitfireExport plugin for Aperture allows for easy uploading to the Spitfire Photo website. Download here.

Send large files via email direct from within Aperture with YouSendit. Get the latest version of the plugin here.

Übermind is one of the largest plugin development companies for Aperture. Übermind's current plugins are ApertureToFTP Pro, ApertureToFileMakerPro, and Aperture to Picasa Web Albums. Recently, Übermind also took over the ApertureToGallery project.

Steve Weller (more commonly known as Bageltruf) is a blogger, photographer, and developer. In a tutorial he wrote the Random Wok plugin for Aperture.

One year ago, Fraser Speirs of Connected Flow began to write shareware applications. Now his business includes three plugins for Aperture: FlickrExport, Aperture to Final Cut Pro, and FlickrExport Lite.

David Holmes is a Mac OS X developer who writes many plugins for Aperture. His current lineup includes: ApertureToZenfolio, ApertureToPBase, ApertureToSmugMug, and ApertureToPhanfare.

Juan Leon is a software developer who realized the need to simplify using Gmail to send photos. He wrote iPhoto2Gmail and now Aperture2Gmail.

Ken Welch is a software developer who has developed Flash Album Exporter in his own free time.

Josh Anon, photographer and founder of LightBox Software, wrote the LightBox XMP export plugin for Aperture.

Mark Morris is a Mac OS X and Windows developer who has written applications to upload files to remote servers. PhotoUpLink is his export plugin for Aperture.

Micah Walter is a photojournalist photographer, programmer, blogger, and author of this site.

Sean Farley is a student developer and Mathematician. He wrote the FaceBook Exporter for Aperture plugin.