Aperture integration?
Aperture integration?
I'm no programmer, so i don't know if there is any kind of plug-in architecture for Aperture - but i know as a Intel Mac user (had to go mobile, couldn't see spending all that money for a slow laptop) for what i do, I avoid going into Photoshop as much as possible now.
My workflow is really streamlined with Aperture now, and really, all that I am missing now is NeatImage to help me clean up those high ISO photos... since i do a lot of "we need the picture now and we don't have time for you to make it look better in Photoshop" work, really, I don't want to go over to Photoshop - even when its UB. Editing the photos is not a requirement, but getting rid of the noise would be nice.
is there any chance we'll see NetaImage integrate with Aperture, since the noise reduction in Aperture borders on the useless?
My workflow is really streamlined with Aperture now, and really, all that I am missing now is NeatImage to help me clean up those high ISO photos... since i do a lot of "we need the picture now and we don't have time for you to make it look better in Photoshop" work, really, I don't want to go over to Photoshop - even when its UB. Editing the photos is not a requirement, but getting rid of the noise would be nice.
is there any chance we'll see NetaImage integrate with Aperture, since the noise reduction in Aperture borders on the useless?
Thank you for the question and in fact a suggestion, because you are the first person to raise this issue.
Aperture is a relatively young product and it seems to be not supporting third-party components or plug-ins in the current version (I have to check once again since things change quickly). If there is no such support then the only way to interface with Aperture is through temporary files, which is not what you would prefer as I understand. We will check if there is any other way to achieve the same goal with Aperture but of course we should be expecting Aperture to support plug-ins because that is the way to easily re-use a lot of readily available tools.
Thank you once again for the question.
Vlad
Aperture is a relatively young product and it seems to be not supporting third-party components or plug-ins in the current version (I have to check once again since things change quickly). If there is no such support then the only way to interface with Aperture is through temporary files, which is not what you would prefer as I understand. We will check if there is any other way to achieve the same goal with Aperture but of course we should be expecting Aperture to support plug-ins because that is the way to easily re-use a lot of readily available tools.
Thank you once again for the question.
Vlad
perhaps a small, fast, stand-alone app that could be chosen as a "editing app" in the Aperture prefs that would essentially allow a user to do nothing but perform NetImage processing?
The big slowdown is Photoshop, honestly. A small .app like this could serve as a stop-gap until the Aperture plug-in API is established - i'm making that assupmtion because Apple would have to have their heads shoved up their collective butts to think they could get away without one.
The big slowdown is Photoshop, honestly. A small .app like this could serve as a stop-gap until the Aperture plug-in API is established - i'm making that assupmtion because Apple would have to have their heads shoved up their collective butts to think they could get away without one.
How about now?
Aperture now supports export plugins...mainly this is used for uploading stuff to image sharing sites etc., but what about being able to run stuff through NeatImage on export instead?
Hello, apparently the new v.2.1 Aperture supports plug ins properly now.NITeam wrote:Unfortunately, such a solution would most likely not be able to support all functions required in a filter plug-in, which is typically quite different from export plug-ins.
Anyway, thank you for the suggestion.
Vlad
Hi Vlad,NITeam wrote:Is the SDK is openly available so that third-party developers could build plug-ins for it? Last time I checked it was not.
Vlad
They have just released this with version 2.1. I got the news about this here
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/03/28aperture.html
Thanks
Nigel
Except some appear to have the SDK already!NITeam wrote:Hi Nigel,
Thank you, I have seen that announcement too. As you can see, they haven't yet published the SDK. Which is a pity because this slows down development of any third-party plug-in.
Thank you,
Vlad
Edit Plug-ins
Aperture 2 includes a powerful plug-in architecture for the seamless integration of popular third-party image editing software, such as Nik Software's Viveza and PictureCode's Noise Ninja (both available soon).
Thanks
nigel
Hi Vlad,
It seems that the Aperture Plug In SDK is now available.
http://developer.apple.com/appleapplica ... index.html
Nigel
It seems that the Aperture Plug In SDK is now available.
http://developer.apple.com/appleapplica ... index.html
Nigel
vote for plugin
I'm sure you probably don't need a thousand posts on this thread from everyone, but I just want to say that an Aperture plugin for neatimage would save me lots of round trips. I'd even pay a little extra to have a NI plugin (tho i suspect that many would expect a free upgrade