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Plug-ins, workflows and other extras

When it comes to working with your photos, the built-in tools you find in Aperture are just the beginning. With dozens of image-editing and export plug-ins, automations and scripts, and third-party book and web themes available, you can easily extend Aperture’s capabilities to access an entire industry’s worth of imaging expertise without ever leaving Aperture.

How to Use Aperture Plug-ins

Edit Plug-ins: After installing a plug-in, go to the Images menu and choose the Edit With command. All installed editing plug-ins are automatically listed in the Edit With sub-menu. View tutorial

Export Plug-ins: To use an export plug-in, choose Export from the File menu. You'll find all your installed export plug-ins listed at the bottom of the Export sub-menu. View tutorial

Image Editing Plug-ins

These plug-ins extend Aperture’s built-in image editing capabilities, adding specialised tools for noise reduction, selective adjustments, lens correction and much more.

Filters & Effects

Noise & Lens Correction

Export Plug-ins

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Streamline your work by sending your photos to Flickr, Facebook, SmugMug and other photo sharing web sites directly from Aperture. Or easily upload your photos to a remote FTP server, send to another application, or generate a flash-based web gallery.

Web Photo Sharing

Stock Photo Sites

Online Digital Workflow

File Transfer

Integration

Output

  • ImageArchiver
    ImageArchiver

    Easily export masters and versions to Mac disk images or platform-independent archive files. Learn more

  • Aperture BorderFX
    Aperture BorderFX

    An Aperture export plug-in that allows you to add borders and titles to images as you export them. Learn more

  • DNGExporter
    DNGExporter

    DNGExporter takes advantage of the Adobe DNG Converter command line tool to offer a seamless method for exporting your RAW master images in the DNG format. Learn more

  • Flash Album Exporter
    Flash Album Exporter

    A plug-in for Aperture that creates a Flash or JavaScript based photo album web page. Learn more

  • Lightbox XMP
    Lightbox XMP

    Provides a way for Aperture users to export XMP metadata for other programs, such as Adobe Photoshop, to read. Learn more

  • Aperture to Archive
    Aperture to Archive (Übermind)

    Packages and compresses images from an Aperture library in the most popular archive file types. Learn more

  • PhotoUpLink
    PhotoUpLink

    Allows Aperture users to export images to a variety of destinations including FTP locations and ODBC databases. Learn more

  • Random Wok
    Random Wok

    Random Wok gives images exported from Aperture random file names. Learn more

Automations & Scripts

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These automated workflows take advantage of AppleScript to turn complex multi-step tasks into one-click operations that extend existing Aperture features, and make it easy to integrate Aperture into a workflow that includes other applications such as Keynote, Mail or InDesign.

Import Workflow

Export Workflow

Extras

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These third-party web and book themes offer a variety of creative design options that give you greater flexibility when presenting your photos in print and on the web.

Book Themes

Web Themes