Do you want a fast and easy way to “hemispherically” straighten things up? You can now do it inside Aperture with the Fisheye-Hemi plug-in from Image Trends. At a single click of a radio button, the Fisheye-Hemi “automatically remaps...

Since Aperture opened itself to more, and specialized, editing capabilities, as sampled by Apple’s Dodge & Burn plug-in, almost all of the promised 3rd-party software have now been delivered. We can now download, install and use NIK Software’s Viveza, Tiffen’s...

I am excited that the amazing U Point technology of Nik Software’s Viveza, in the form of an easy-to-use editing plug-in, is now available to photographers using Aperture 2.1. My first encounter with the U Point technology was through...

Nik Software released Viveza for Aperture yesterday. This is a plug-in that you’re going to want to give a test drive. It’s really pretty amazing software when you put it through its paces. I first saw a demo of Viveza...

Drab and gray? Flat? No highlights? It can happen. Maybe you're on location, and it's getting late and the light is fading fast. Or, you're in the studio and there's not enough strobes for the kind of setup you...

Apple has made available via the Apple Developer Connection site the Aperture 2.1 SDK. You'll need your ADC login info to grab the 596 kb disk image. But once you have it, you can use it to develop Export and Edit plug-ins. The download includes documentation to help you get off to a fast start.

A quick look at the new crop of plug-ins that came out at the end of last week. First up is the Tiffen Filters plug-in. make sure you take a close look at the URL in that link. Yes, I...

Often times when I create image projects in Photoshop or InDesign, I import them into Aperture simply because I can manage and access image projects using the media pane in Apple's creative suite of applications like Keynote, iDVD, Pages, and...

To address a backward compatibility issue, Apple released PluginManager 1.7.3. PluginManager handles Apple and third-party filters used by Aperture as well as Final Cut Pro, Motion, Logic Studio. It also controls the filters of SDKs for Aperture and FCP. From...

Two terrific export plug-ins for Apple Aperture have recently been updated. Both Aperture2Gmail and UberUpload for Aperture make it easy to send images directly from Aperture to others.

You can now get from Apple's Aperture download page, a new free export plug-in that allows you to directly connect to the GLOBALedit website. If you are already using GLOBALedit, or you are considering of using GLOBALedit, and you are...

Automator.us has released a new add-on for Aperture that provides a sophisticated, automated way to get client approval of a set of images. The new Publish For Approval package is an AppleScript-based application that works as follows: • A web...

Today I am very pleased and excited to announce the release of the Aperture To Pictage Plug-in. Why am I so excited about this plugin? Well, mostly because I wrote it myself! Yes, it is true, this photographer/writer is...

Most serious Aperture users like myself no doubt get very excited about new plug-ins for the program because they add just one more feature (or solution, as some of us like to call it) to our workflow. Well a new...

Why Aperture has a very nice collection of image adjustment tools, it lacks the ability to perform any kind of distortion correction. If you're shooting with a wide-angle lens that has trouble with barrel distortion, then you won't have any...

I recently came across a cool add-on for Aperture. David Riecks, who currently chairs the SAA Imaging Technology Standards Committee, has a small but very useful product called Controlled Vocabulary. The keyword dictionary is available for Aperture users as well...

Software Entrepreneur, Aaron Morse, out of Anchorage, Alaska, recently posted in the the Flickr.com Aperture group (which I frequent on a regular basis) a request for the types of plug-ins Aperture users would like to make their life easier. As...

Great news this week for Aperture users who use Google’s Picasa Web Albums for sharing photos online. Übermind has released Aperture to Picasa Web Albums, an Aperture plug-in that enables uploading of photos to Picasa from within the Aperture environment....

If you haven't already noticed, Aperture Plugged In has a new look and feel. I have been working really hard to bring a better design to the site and create a better user experience. The new site will have lots...

In my last TDS podcast, I discussed some of my favorite plug-ins for Aperture. One of them, Aperture2Gmail, enables me to send images directly from my Aperture library using my Gmail account. It's so convenient. I never leave the Aperture...