How to automate a plug-in

Richard...Click on Aperture's "Photos" menu, then "Edit With Plug-in". A sub-menu with all of Aperture's installed plug-ins will appear. If the Nik Collection was installed properly, you should see it as one of the choices.

If your Nik modules are there, clicking one will first create a new TIF version and pass it to the selected Nik module. When you are done with the Nik edit, the plug-in should return you to Aperture and the TIFF version will contain your adjustments made in Nik.

And in addition to photographis' solution can you assign keyboard shortcuts to the menu items.

I assigned the Shift-X keyboard shorcut to the BoderFX edit plug-in by editing the command set:

• Use the command: Aperture > Commands
  and select a command set. Duplicate it, to get a copy that you can edit.
• Then select Aperture > Commands > Customize
• Select your "Edit" plug-in in the Commands list and type in the keyboard shortcut that you want to use.

You will probably see all plug-ins twice, as edit and export plug-in. Look at the description to the right, to find out which is which.

Regards

Léonie

For standard settings, just hit "Enter" once the Image is in Nik Dfine. (You might have to wait for Dfine to finish processing.)

This could be automated, but maintaining and trouble-shooting the automation to activate a single key-press seems not likely to be worth the time invested.

You can batch w. Nik as well. Select the Images, send them to Nik Dfine, let it do it's processing, and click "Save All".

You could, for instance, flag the Images from today's low-light session that you want to keep and develop, select all the flagged ones, send them to Dfine with your new hot-key, return some phone calls, and when Dfine is done determining the default noise reduction for each file, press and release the "Enter" key. This is the same as clicking the "Save All" button (note the change from the "Save" button when only one file is sent).

Iirc, there are some instructions in the PDF manual that talk about creating custom defaults. You might have to run Dfine through PS for those to work, however.

HTH,

--Kirby.

Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger

I've got the nik plug-ins running with a short-cut key. Not quite the automation that i've seen in darkroom, but close enough.

Great! 🙂