Matthias Kretschmann
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* 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
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| New Aperture Plug-Ins: Jade And PTLens | Matthias Kretschmann | 2008-07-08 19:19:54+00:00 |
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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.
The PTLens plug-in from ePaperPress 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.
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:
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.
The second plug-in recently released is the Jade plug-in from Datamind. Because of its speed also on consumer Macs, Aperture 2 became popular among amateur photographers too. Datamind targets it's first Aperture plug-in Jade 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:
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 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.
Interested in more Aperture plug-ins? Just have a look at my article First overview: Aperture 2.1 adjustment plugins have arrived to get an overview about what's available at the moment.