What are the best free Aperture 3 plug-ins?

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What are the best free Aperture 3 plug-ins?

Hi everyone!

I'm low on money and am looking for Aperture plug-ins that can really take editing jpegs to a whole new level. I've scoured the Net and have found only demo versions of software that are really expensive to purchase.

Can anyone suggest some free plug-ins that I can download or suggest some workaround methods found in Aperture 3?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for your time!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 17" Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz 4GB RAM

Posted on May 8, 2011 2:07 PM

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Answer 1

May 8, 2011 2:13 PM in response to DJWebDUck

You have Aperture. Aperture comes with a very broad, robust set of image development tools. You can not composite within Aperture (you'll need a graphics program to add data, text, or graphics primitives to your images), but you do most everything else.

(You can add text with the excellent _free_ plug-in, Border FX.)

What is it you are trying to do? I cannot imagine a level of image development beyond which Aperture can take you (but if you want to do graphics editing, you'll need a graphics program).

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Answer 2

Nov 1, 2011 12:33 PM in response to Kirby Krieger

What photo filters are included in Aperture 3? I downloaded the trial version but didn't see very many option. Looking for vintage, lomo, etc. Am I missing something? Can I download free filters? Thanks!

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Answer 3

d-light

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Nov 1, 2011 2:45 PM in response to codeoverride

Regarding "on-board" filters Aperture refines to the classical filters for turning 4c images into black and white, sepia and a few more like cross development, cyanotype and toy camera.

For special photo filters you might have a look at e.g. http://www.apertureexpert.com/presets/

Cheers,

d-light

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