Aperture is the professional RAW image file processor from Apple. It’s excellent software. All of the images on my website have been processed in Aperture. With today’s 2.1 update the door has been opened for the development of plug-ins by third party developers. This means that many of the great plug-ins available for Photoshop CS3 may soon be usable within Aperture without the need to export the files to PS for processing.From Apple’s press release…
By clicking on one or more images within Aperture, users can choose from a menu of installed plug-ins and apply specialized imaging operations to either TIFF or RAW images. Apple is working closely with key developers to bring the most requested plug-ins to Aperture such as:
- Nik Software’s Viveza plug-in, powered by U Point technology, which provides a powerful, precise and easy way for photographers to selectively control and adjust color and light in their digital images;
- PictureCode’s Noise Ninja plug-in that delivers advanced high ISO noise analysis and reduction;
- Digital Film Tools’ Power Stroke plug-in that features a simple, stroke-based interface to quickly mask and intuitively perform targeted adjustments;
- The Tiffen Company’s Dfx plug-in that provides an expansive suite of creative filters and effects;
- dvGarage’s dpMatte plug-in, which is a high performance chroma key tool for creating seamless composites, and the HDRtoner plug-in that enables the selection of multiple photos to create a single high dynamic range (HDR) image; and
- Image Trends’ plug-ins that include Fisheye-Hemi to quickly and effortlessly correct fisheye lens distortion, ShineOff which automatically removes shine from faces and PearlyWhites that automatically whitens and brightens teeth.
Rob Galbraith has the most extensive right up on the update that I have read. You can read it HERE.