While everyone is still getting acclimated to the new Aperture 2, an overview published at Aperture Users Professional Network revealed an interesting tidbit that Apple itself has yet to talk much about. According to David Schloss, "Apple has added the ability to create editing plug-ins for Aperture." Aperture has only supported export plugins thus far, so this is particularly interesting. It opens up the possibility of more pixel-level editing in Aperture from third-party plugins, even if Apple itself doesn't want to crowd Adobe's Photoshop turf. As Schloss notes, this will quite likely "revolutionize the program" in the long run. Now if only Apple would publish the details and let the developers get to work.
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2-19-2008 @ 12:38PM
NutMac said...
Good. Aperture 2 is still stuck with underpowered noise reduction tool. Hopefully, this will pave the way for plug-ins such as Noise Ninja.
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2-19-2008 @ 3:36PM
melchior said...
exactly my thoughts!
2-19-2008 @ 5:35PM
Erik J. Barzeski said...
Yeah, but they're likely not going to be non-destructive and will only work on a copy of the image.
http://briankc.com/2008/02/13/preliminary-notes-on-aperture-20-plug-ins/
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2-19-2008 @ 5:53PM
David said...
I'd really, really like to have plug-ins like those from Nik Software or Tiffen
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2-20-2008 @ 7:37PM
Stephen Shankland said...
I asked Apple about the plug-in architecture and got a little detail, too, posted on my CNET News.com blog, Underexposed:
http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9872913-39.html
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