NIK plugins or wait for Aperture 4?

Hello people,
I February my studies photography starts and I am considering buying the NIK plugins.
Aperture 3 is in February about two years old and wonder if Aperture 4 will be released soon, if it will be.
I expect much improvements in for example noise reduction and editing in general, and that is a nice addition with the plugins.
Can anyone advise me what to do best?

OT: Frank, if you should have time, could you please have a look at this thread? Aperture freezes every time it is opened.
Re: Aperture freezes every time it is opened.I ran out of ideas
Regards
Léonie

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Plugin wish list for Aperture

Howdy, Fellow Photographers
3 cheers for the Aperture team for the 2.1 update!
OK, back to business.
1. I would like to see a deinterlace plugin for we editors so we can take our freeze frames into Aperture from FCP and make a nice photo to edit into our timelines. I tried dropping in Photoshop's deinterlace plugin inside the plugin folder within the package Contents folder but it didn't take.
2. A 3D plugin to inflate (3D model/map) our photos and have the ability to use them with the different 3D camera angles in Apple's Motion. For example, a still image of a fashion model or building architecture or landscape and the ability to rotate the image in 3D space - profile, top, right, left, bottom.
3. A plugin for web sites to modify the CSS within Aperture's Web Journal, Web Gallery and Web Page before exporting the site.
victor

web-weaver wrote:
I am not too impressed with the content aware fill...
How would you compare it to Nx2's distraction removal brush, or Aperture's, or Bibble's? (Does CaptureOne-Pro have one??)
In any case, I do think Lightrooms spot remover works very well in the circumstances for which it was designed (removing lens and/or sensor specs), but I'd like to see some way of removing tree branches and beer cans too... Feathering and rotation (and shape changing) would supplement the existing DSR nicely though - no idea how much work it would be...
Cheers,
Rob

Buy Aperture 3 or wait for Aperture 4?

I'm looking to buy Aperture, but rumor has it version 4 is on the way. Should I buy version 3 now and hope 4 is a ways away or wait it out?
How likely is it if I buy version 3 now, apple will let me upgrade to 4 for free? I know there's no upcoming apple events (that have been annouced anyway), but is it possible they will just push it out without an event?

No one here can answer your question. We are users just like yourself so we know nothing about what when Apple will release anything.
Allan

Noise Ninja plugin just released for Aperture

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/aperture/noiseninja.html
Any chance this will happen for Lightroom in the near future?

Unfortunately Lee_Jay that is at best a hack job and not even close to what
Adobe said they would do. They need to get off the pot with this and get it
done. Otherwise they need to be willing to add a considerable number of
features to LR including Noise Ninja like noise reduction, book printing,
better slideshow options, better web gallery options and so on.
I can understand if Adobe doesn't want to do it, but they do need to allow
third parties to do it. Without this Lightroom is only 1/4 the program it
could be. Photoshop without the plug-in support wouldn't be as popular as it
is without it.
You may not agree and that is fine, however the customer is always right and
many of this need and demand this.

Fix for Aperture 3 printing issue for Non-US users - "Value too large"

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I just found a fix to an annoying bug when Non-US customers want to print in Aperture 3.0 and 3.0.1 on their printers:
If you set the Image Size to "Custom image size" Aperture 3 will complain that:
"The value xx is too large" !!!, even if the margins are set to a minimum!
Here's the solution and it's definitely a bug:
Set your Measurement Units to "US" instead of "Metric" in:
System Preferences > Language & Text > Formats > Measurement Units: US
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So when a Non-US User enters 25cm, Aperture interprets it as 25" inch for a 8"x10" paper size, that's why then it complains that value is too large.
Yep a bug!! Waiting for Aperture 3.0.2
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Some problem here... Have you guys already filed a bug report? If not, please do so, so Apple nows there is this problem. You can file a report from the Aperture >Provide Aperture Feedback menu item.

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See this known issue:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4237
Not sure why Apple has not fixed this one yet. It is consistent with NIK plug-ins as well as Photoshop (CS5 and CS6).
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== since installing Firefox 4.1

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~~red:Check your version here~~: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/
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''You may be able to update from the Adobe Reader installed on your system'' instead of going to the Adobe site and downloading. Start > Program Files, find and click Adobe Reader to open, click Help, click Check for Updates.
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I run a Windows 8.1 - Photoshop CS5 under Parallels on an iMac one year old and both having the latest OS. I use a NIK plugin "VIVEZA" which run fine for years without a problem. Latelt and without a reason, the NIK plugin has gone corrupt, (can not use

@I run a Windows 8.1 - Photoshop CS5 under Parallels on an iMac one year old and both having the latest OS. I use a NIK plugin "VIVEZA" which run fine for years without a problem. Latelt and without a reason, the NIK plugin has gone corrupt, (can not use it more the 2 corrections after a get a black background message that there is not enough memory) and the system stops running and a must restart is required. How do I fix this terrible problem?
If it requires a Photoshop CS5 re-install, (I belief that it may fix the problem) and re-install the two third party plugins (NIK Viveza) and (Onone Perfect Resize) how and where do I get to the proper Adobe upload page to do that.
I have tried to fix this problem by changing the memory allocations, I have spend many hours on it and are very disgusted with it but it needs to be fixed. The current memory settings are;
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The Photoshop I use is registered, I have product # and order # .

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Aperture 3 and nik plugin compatibility

any news of the update?

Nik has the following posted on their Website under FAQ
http://www.niksoftware.com/support/usa/entry.php?view=faqs/generalanswers.shtml#Aperture3compatibility
*Are Nik Software products compatible with Aperture 3?*
We are continuing to evaluate support for Aperture 3. Initial tests have uncovered some issues that we are currently working with Apple to resolve.
The following products are currently not fully compatible with Aperture 3:
Color Efex Pro 3.0
Viveza 2
Silver Efex Pro
Sharpener Pro 3.0
Dfine 2.0 appears to be working in Aperture 3 running in 32-bit mode without issue, however we are working with Apple to perform additional compatibility tests.
We will provide updates to all registered customers as soon as additional information is possible.

HT201071 When will RAW support for Pentax K3 be available for OSX and Aperture 3, finally? Really very much waiting for it!!!

When will RAW support for Pentax K3 be available for OSX and Aperture 3, finally? Really very much waiting for it!!!

We're all other users here, so can't answer that question. You can request it by submitting feedback here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Advice needed about lens correction plugin's for Aperture 2.1

Please can I have some advice about lens correction plugin's for Aperture 2.1?
I see that the Apple Aperture Downloads site promotes two:
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Their site looks very poorly designed and the link from the Apple page does not go to the Aperture plugin, you have to drill down until you find it! Does it use the exif data about your lens and the zoom setting it was on automatically or do you need to configure it each time?
Which one did you buy? Was it worth it?
Thanks for your time!

LensFix CI is the same thing. It has the standalone version, the PS plug-in and the Aperture plug-in.
I've used LensFix via PS for a long time. It's great but... it can be a bit buggy if the image in use is 16-bit. Often it will work on the first image or two and then crash on the next.
I am told it's not compatible with PS CS4.
Another option is PTLens. It's also a PS plug-in and an Aperture plug-in. It's supposed to be CS4 compatible.
http://epaperpress.com/ptlens/index.html
It uses the same database of lens corrections as LensFix.
FWIW, I've tended to do this kind of work in Photoshop, either round tripping an image in Aperture or exporting an image from Aperture. Since Aperture plug-ins are going to 16-bit Tiff files anyway and since most images (if they are final files for clients) need some more PS work, I just go that route.
Jon Roemer
site: http://www.jonroemer.com/
blog: http://jonroemer.typepad.com/jon_roemer/

Noise Ninja 64-bit Plugin for Aperture 3

For those of you who rely on Noise Ninja, I figured the community would be interested in the news that they have finished their 64 plug-in for Aperture 3 and are in the final testing phase before release.
I wrote them yesterday, and got the following response:
Hi Kevin,
We will make a 64 bit Aperture 3 plug-in available once we've had time to test the plug-in and installation process. The plug-in is already running. We just have to finish testing and update the web site. I do not anticipate this taking more than a week.
We will provide this release as soon as we can.
I will send you an email as soon as we have our release ready.
Kind regards,
Bill
PictureCode
I have been using their application since 2004, and in Aperture since Apple introduced the plugin structure wit Version 2. IMHO, Noise Ninja is best-in-class, and great folks to deal with.
http://www.picturecode.com/index.htm
Sincerely,
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Yes! Got my email notice this afternoon -- it works!
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I have installed hydra express plugin for Aperture many time with no success

I have installed hydra express plugin for Aperture many time with no success. When I select edit with plugin hydra, the make an HDR image with hydra appears. When I hit the process button a message states that hydra is not found. I have checked in my application support folder. There is no plugin folder for aperture or a hydra plugin.
Any help would be appreciated.

Plug-ins get installed in one of two locations.
~/Library/Application Support/Aperture/Plug-Ins/Edit
or
/Library/Application Support/Aperture/Plug-Ins/Edit
The second is for all users of the machine and is located in the root folder of your system drive (often "Macintosh HD").
The first is your private library (note the ~ symbol which a shortcut to your user folder) and means the plugin is just for you. ~/Library is hidden by default so finder wont see it. To see it in Finder, use the menu "Go->Go to folder" and type in ~/Library as the folder name. Then you can natigate to /Application Support/ etc....
That should help you determine if it's installed. Note, you may only find an alias in the plug-in folder and the programs may actually be stored elsewhere. Also, if the Plugin can be used for export as well as edit, it might be located in /Plug-Ins rather than /Plug-Ins/Edit
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For distribution, I've put an AppleScript together which installs the plugin and takes care of the quarantine issue, but I am just (literally today) tesing that on a different machine to make sure it works the same as it does on mine.
If you can first confirm that hydra is installed in one of the above locations, I'll then talk you through how to check if there is a quarantine issue with it.
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I found an export plugin for Aperture to send photos to Pixelpost blogs. I'm posting this here in case someone searches the discussion forums looking for one. The link is:
http://www.pixelpost.org/extend/addons/aperture-pixelpost-plugin/
or from the developer's site:
http://www.macroni.be/index.php?x=plugin
His comments:
"APP (Aperture Pixelpost Plugin) uploads the selected picture from your Aperture library to you pixelpost blog without having to export the picture first, and then uploading it manually."
I've tested it with APP v 1.3, Aperture v 2.1.4, OS X 10.6.1, Pixelpost v 1.7.3. The plugin does work, but when you export more than one photo, they all have identical metadata information. You'll have to rename and retag in the Pixelpost control panel. The plugin also does not remember your Pixelpost login information between sessions. In spite of these problems, it is a useful plugin for us Pixelpost users.

Hey - I downloaded it and sent $ the day he put up the note EXCELLENT implementation, flawless installation and FAST uploading. Do yourself a favor if you're a Smugger. As said above, a marriage of two great products!!
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