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title: 'New Aperture Plug-Ins: Jade And PTLens'
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author: Matthias Kretschmann
date: 2008-07-08 19:19:54+00:00
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tags:
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- photography
- aperture
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- apple
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---
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Last week two new image editing plug-ins were announced for Aperture 2.1: The PTLens plug-in for correcting barrel distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration, and perspective and the Jade plug-in for automatic correction of color, levels and exposure.
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Gatsby → Astro (#829)
* basic astro setup, kick out all gatsby configs
* move content folder
* src/pages setup
* more file reorg
* more config updates
* more reorgs
* refactor
* refactor
* bump astro
* refactor
* svg icon build system, theme switch
* remark plugin for lead paragraph, more refactor
* make images work
* post meta
* custom Picture component
* Pagination, More component, 404 fixes
* linking fixes
* add table of contents
* post actions fixes
* tag fixes
* content changes
* content changes: move media files to their posts
* more content moving, remove media folder
* refactor remark-lead-paragraph
* link css file when defined in post frontmatter
* move content up again
* kbd post update
* allow js
* downloads solution
* add astro check
* redirect_from solution
* githubLink solution
* reorg
* exif solution as prebuild step
* exif solution on each post during build
* isolate lead paragraph extraction to articles
* restore Exif components
* deploy script update
* fix redirects
* xml & json feeds
* build fix
* fix exif readout in production
* head and seo tweaks, add feeds
* tweak image display
* archive pages with single layout
* restore tags archive
* sitemap setup
* restore thanks page functionality
* reorg
* cleanup
* parallel scripts during prebuild
* restore jest setup
* remove jest, switch to vitest as test runner
* adapt CI
* test refactor
* typescript tweaks
* avatar fixes
* typings
* restore search functionality
* theme switch with nanostores
* fixes
* test fixes
* restore changelog functionality
* umami script
* border color tweak
* related posts with fuse.js
* plawright e2e testing setup
* search tweaks
* simplify typekit loading
* photo fix
* e2e tests
* related posts fix
* fix tags archive
* tweaks
* tweaks
* linux snapshots
* fix header test
* new symlink tactic
* fix dev server in codespaces
* fix yaml
* ci fixes
* changelog loading tweaks
* e2e against dev server on ci
* changelog tweaks
* ci tweaks
* ci tweaks
* ci tweaks
* docs updates
* ci tweaks
* refactor photo creation script
* package updates
* refactor search
* ci tweak
* ci tweaks
* test tweaks, more unit tests
* more unit tests
* post creation script tweaks
* refactor new scripts, test them for real life
* more tests
* refactor
* codeclimate-action update
* uses update
* limit ci runs
* fix theme toggle, test it
* more tests
* favicon files cleanup
* icon components location change
* type checking through ci
* command fixes
* ci fix
* search tweaks
* ci tweaks
* revised favicons, write post draft about it
* drafts filtering fix
* lint fix, favicon fixes
* copy changes
* fix related search images
* content updates
* new codeblock styles, copy tweaks, fixes
* package updates
* typing fixes
* lint fix
* content updates
* restore link posts
* faster theme switching
* split up astro utils
* related posts fixes
* fix
* refactor
* fixes
* copy tweaks
* fixes
* picture tweaks
* image fixes
* feed fixes, adapt for json feed v1.1
* e2e test updates
* layout tweaks
* update snaphots
* migrate to createMarkdownProcessor
* ci cache tweaks
* activate more browsers for e2e testing
* switch to macos-13 images
* build caching tweaks
* markdown fix
* set image quality
* remove avif generation
* picture tweaks
* head fixes
* add og:image:alt
* create-icons test
* new post: Favicon Generation with Astro
2023-09-18 03:16:53 +02:00
2013-11-18 23:54:59 +01:00
2016-06-12 18:12:05 +02:00
The [PTLens plug-in ](http://epaperpress.com/ptlens/ ) from [ePaperPress ](http://epaperpress.com/ ) was available as a Photoshop plug-in in the past and is well known for its lens pincushion, barrel distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration, and perspective correction abilities based on a lens model database similiar to [Kekus' LensFix CI plug-in ](http://www.kekus.com/software/plugin.html ).
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While I love the plug-ins ability to correct perspectives the Aperture plug-in doesn't work with RAW files(!), just with tiff and jpeg files which is one more way to compromise the way Aperture works (In my opinion the whole plug-in architecture of Aperture does that). And while I would love to show you the plug-ins user interface in Aperture PTLens refused to open either JPEG or TIFF files. So here's just a screenshot of the standalone application:
Gatsby → Astro (#829)
* basic astro setup, kick out all gatsby configs
* move content folder
* src/pages setup
* more file reorg
* more config updates
* more reorgs
* refactor
* refactor
* bump astro
* refactor
* svg icon build system, theme switch
* remark plugin for lead paragraph, more refactor
* make images work
* post meta
* custom Picture component
* Pagination, More component, 404 fixes
* linking fixes
* add table of contents
* post actions fixes
* tag fixes
* content changes
* content changes: move media files to their posts
* more content moving, remove media folder
* refactor remark-lead-paragraph
* link css file when defined in post frontmatter
* move content up again
* kbd post update
* allow js
* downloads solution
* add astro check
* redirect_from solution
* githubLink solution
* reorg
* exif solution as prebuild step
* exif solution on each post during build
* isolate lead paragraph extraction to articles
* restore Exif components
* deploy script update
* fix redirects
* xml & json feeds
* build fix
* fix exif readout in production
* head and seo tweaks, add feeds
* tweak image display
* archive pages with single layout
* restore tags archive
* sitemap setup
* restore thanks page functionality
* reorg
* cleanup
* parallel scripts during prebuild
* restore jest setup
* remove jest, switch to vitest as test runner
* adapt CI
* test refactor
* typescript tweaks
* avatar fixes
* typings
* restore search functionality
* theme switch with nanostores
* fixes
* test fixes
* restore changelog functionality
* umami script
* border color tweak
* related posts with fuse.js
* plawright e2e testing setup
* search tweaks
* simplify typekit loading
* photo fix
* e2e tests
* related posts fix
* fix tags archive
* tweaks
* tweaks
* linux snapshots
* fix header test
* new symlink tactic
* fix dev server in codespaces
* fix yaml
* ci fixes
* changelog loading tweaks
* e2e against dev server on ci
* changelog tweaks
* ci tweaks
* ci tweaks
* ci tweaks
* docs updates
* ci tweaks
* refactor photo creation script
* package updates
* refactor search
* ci tweak
* ci tweaks
* test tweaks, more unit tests
* more unit tests
* post creation script tweaks
* refactor new scripts, test them for real life
* more tests
* refactor
* codeclimate-action update
* uses update
* limit ci runs
* fix theme toggle, test it
* more tests
* favicon files cleanup
* icon components location change
* type checking through ci
* command fixes
* ci fix
* search tweaks
* ci tweaks
* revised favicons, write post draft about it
* drafts filtering fix
* lint fix, favicon fixes
* copy changes
* fix related search images
* content updates
* new codeblock styles, copy tweaks, fixes
* package updates
* typing fixes
* lint fix
* content updates
* restore link posts
* faster theme switching
* split up astro utils
* related posts fixes
* fix
* refactor
* fixes
* copy tweaks
* fixes
* picture tweaks
* image fixes
* feed fixes, adapt for json feed v1.1
* e2e test updates
* layout tweaks
* update snaphots
* migrate to createMarkdownProcessor
* ci cache tweaks
* activate more browsers for e2e testing
* switch to macos-13 images
* build caching tweaks
* markdown fix
* set image quality
* remove avif generation
* picture tweaks
* head fixes
* add og:image:alt
* create-icons test
* new post: Favicon Generation with Astro
2023-09-18 03:16:53 +02:00
2013-11-18 23:54:59 +01:00
So to me the PTLens plug-in for Aperture isn't finished yet. But you can download a [trial version from the plug-ins website ](http://epaperpress.com/ptlens/media.html ).
The second plug-in recently released is the [Jade plug-in ](http://jade.datamind.biz/ ) from Datamind. Because of its speed also on consumer Macs, Aperture 2 became popular among amateur photographers too. [Datamind ](http://datamind.biz ) targets it's first Aperture plug-in [Jade ](http://jade.datamind.biz/ ) at this group. The former standalone application for Mac and Windows is now an Aperture adjustment plug-in for correcting your pictures colors, levels and exposure automatically with Dataminds own algorithm. And its user interface is very clean and uncluttered:
Gatsby → Astro (#829)
* basic astro setup, kick out all gatsby configs
* move content folder
* src/pages setup
* more file reorg
* more config updates
* more reorgs
* refactor
* refactor
* bump astro
* refactor
* svg icon build system, theme switch
* remark plugin for lead paragraph, more refactor
* make images work
* post meta
* custom Picture component
* Pagination, More component, 404 fixes
* linking fixes
* add table of contents
* post actions fixes
* tag fixes
* content changes
* content changes: move media files to their posts
* more content moving, remove media folder
* refactor remark-lead-paragraph
* link css file when defined in post frontmatter
* move content up again
* kbd post update
* allow js
* downloads solution
* add astro check
* redirect_from solution
* githubLink solution
* reorg
* exif solution as prebuild step
* exif solution on each post during build
* isolate lead paragraph extraction to articles
* restore Exif components
* deploy script update
* fix redirects
* xml & json feeds
* build fix
* fix exif readout in production
* head and seo tweaks, add feeds
* tweak image display
* archive pages with single layout
* restore tags archive
* sitemap setup
* restore thanks page functionality
* reorg
* cleanup
* parallel scripts during prebuild
* restore jest setup
* remove jest, switch to vitest as test runner
* adapt CI
* test refactor
* typescript tweaks
* avatar fixes
* typings
* restore search functionality
* theme switch with nanostores
* fixes
* test fixes
* restore changelog functionality
* umami script
* border color tweak
* related posts with fuse.js
* plawright e2e testing setup
* search tweaks
* simplify typekit loading
* photo fix
* e2e tests
* related posts fix
* fix tags archive
* tweaks
* tweaks
* linux snapshots
* fix header test
* new symlink tactic
* fix dev server in codespaces
* fix yaml
* ci fixes
* changelog loading tweaks
* e2e against dev server on ci
* changelog tweaks
* ci tweaks
* ci tweaks
* ci tweaks
* docs updates
* ci tweaks
* refactor photo creation script
* package updates
* refactor search
* ci tweak
* ci tweaks
* test tweaks, more unit tests
* more unit tests
* post creation script tweaks
* refactor new scripts, test them for real life
* more tests
* refactor
* codeclimate-action update
* uses update
* limit ci runs
* fix theme toggle, test it
* more tests
* favicon files cleanup
* icon components location change
* type checking through ci
* command fixes
* ci fix
* search tweaks
* ci tweaks
* revised favicons, write post draft about it
* drafts filtering fix
* lint fix, favicon fixes
* copy changes
* fix related search images
* content updates
* new codeblock styles, copy tweaks, fixes
* package updates
* typing fixes
* lint fix
* content updates
* restore link posts
* faster theme switching
* split up astro utils
* related posts fixes
* fix
* refactor
* fixes
* copy tweaks
* fixes
* picture tweaks
* image fixes
* feed fixes, adapt for json feed v1.1
* e2e test updates
* layout tweaks
* update snaphots
* migrate to createMarkdownProcessor
* ci cache tweaks
* activate more browsers for e2e testing
* switch to macos-13 images
* build caching tweaks
* markdown fix
* set image quality
* remove avif generation
* picture tweaks
* head fixes
* add og:image:alt
* create-icons test
* new post: Favicon Generation with Astro
2023-09-18 03:16:53 +02:00
2013-11-18 23:54:59 +01:00
While I have to say Jade produces very reasonable results it lacks a lot of controls and fails with complicated pictures where Aperture's adjustment controls wouldn't. So I would say this plug-in would be better as an iPhoto plug-in. Do you really want a blown up photoshop or tiff file for every photo you're going to correct in Aperture?
Nevertheless you can download a [trial version of the plug-in from Dataminds website ](http://jade.datamind.biz/media/ ) and you would have to pay either 19.99€ for home use or 49.99€ for Pro use. You can have alook at [Dataminds very interesting explanation o the different license models ](http://jade.datamind.biz/faq#licence ).
Interested in more Aperture plug-ins? Just have a look at my article [First overview: Aperture 2.1 adjustment plugins have arrived ](http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/05/first-aperture-adjustment-plugins-have-arrived/ ) to get an overview about what's available at the moment.
