Aperture 3: No need for plugins except…

I’ve been testing Aperture 3 for a couple of weeks now an my experience with it as a photographer is very mixed. Besides being very positively surprised with new features, there are things that make me switch to alternative programs (next blog article will be on that). But for now, I want to share with you my ‘positive’ conclusion: I don’t need additional plugins while using Aperture 3 except for BorderFX Aperture Plugin.

Apple introduced many new features (like brushes with special effects, brush in/out adjustments, and many more) in Aperture 3 and I have to say that many plugins which I use with Aperture 2 are unnecessary and even useless. One of the most important feature for portraits for me is skin smoothing, a new feature in Aperture 3. There are many more feature in Aperture 3 and going over would take too much time. The bottom line is: it seems that I don’t need now to have any additional plugins in Aperture 3 except for BorderFX Aperture Plugin , which I mainly use to apply a watermark when exporting post-processed pictures. Unfortunately, BorderFX is still only available in 32-bit mode (at least when this post was written) and the 64-bit beta version of BorderFX has too many bugs to use it.

I will write why I won’t make Aperture 3 my main post-processing software in next blog post, so stay tuned.

[fancy_box]Post Picture: The picture attached to this article was taken in Woluwe Park-Tenis Chalet in Brussels, Belgium. I used Nikon Sb-900 Speedlight coming from a side and triggered using Cactus v4 Flash Trigger. EXIF Information: Shutter Speed: 1/125, F/5.6, ISO: 200, Manual Mode [/fancy_box]