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Aperture to include plugin support?

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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David


I'd really, really like to have plug-ins like those from Nik Software or Tiffen

February 19 2008 at 5:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Erik J. Barzeski

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/

February 19 2008 at 5:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
NutMac

Good. Aperture 2 is still stuck with underpowered noise reduction tool. Hopefully, this will pave the way for plug-ins such as Noise Ninja.

February 19 2008 at 12:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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melchior

exactly my thoughts!

February 19 2008 at 3:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stephen Shankland

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

February 19 2008 at 12:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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