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Removing the remains of the 15-day trial
There are numerous 3rd-party export plug-ins for Aperture that you can try. A lot of them are free, but many are available as 15-day trial demos. There are also trial versions that are available for longer periods of time, but usually, not for more than 30 days.
Just last week, new editing plug-ins were announced. Of course, we want to try them all. And so far, all of them can be used for free -- yes, you guessed, for only 15 days. After that, these plug-ins will still work, but you'll begin to see a watermark stamped on the face of each of your image.
You can download the latest updates of export plug-ins as well as the newest editing plug-ins directly from Apple's Aperture download page.
So, on top of the third-party export plug-ins you have already downloaded, installed and tried, to check just how they work and to have a feel for what they can do, you also now want to naturally download all the cool new third-party editing plug-ins so that you can endlessly toy with them and see just how the many filter effects will impact your photographs.
But, you hesitate. What if you end up not liking the plug-ins? There seems to be no easy built-in way to uninstall both the export and editing plug-ins, at least, not directly from within Aperture. For sure, you don't want Aperture to be saddled with plug-ins whose usefulness has been terminated by the 15-day grace period.
Well, there is a way to remove them cleanly. It's not obvious, but it can be done.
The way to do it is for you to go directly to the location where they are installed, and trash them. Go to Library > Application Support > Aperture > Plug-ins. You can decide to just move them out to a different location or delete them altogether. Oh, by the way, it can get a little bit confusing when looking for the plug-ins because your Mac OS has two different libraries. In one library, only the export plug-ins can be found. In the other, both the export plug-ins, and the editing plug-ins (in its own sub-folder) are listed. I have no idea why it's like that, but that's just the way it is. Go to the library where you'll find both.
Of course, many of the Aperture plug-ins are really useful, and, when the 15-day trial is over, still the best and recommended way to remove the trial mode is to register and activate them with a license.
Comments (4)
There will soon be many more plug-in, Apple have release Aperture 2.1 SDK (3D9) https://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/wa/getSoftware?bundleID=20044.
So developers can create Export plug-ins and Edit plug-ins.
To me these plug ins are useless. I pray for some kind of perspective correction.
Yes, Eduardo, it would be nice to see one of the developers come up with a plug-in that can do perspective correction. And I hope someone would do it soon. I can think up of many plug-ins I would like for Aperture. One of them is borders and frames. Would love to know what others out there think would be nice editing plug-ins for Aperture.
Sailesh, this is an exciting development. I take this as Apple's way of fully opening up and speeding the process for the development of more 3rd-party editing, and export, plug-ins for Aperture. I do hope the best software developers take notice. This is something that can make Aperture much better than it is today. I must say that I'm falling in love with Aperture all over again. It's like a love affair that never goes stale. There's always something new, something exciting, and something surprising. Recent developments can only be good for photographers. It truly is making things easy, fast and convenient for photographers to do so many, many things. I'd be interested to know what kind of editing plug-ins you and the others would like in Aperture.