Quick Tip: Borders & Titles Plug-In for Aperture
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Have you ever looked for a way to quickly add text to your images without photoshopping a watermark image first?
There’s a simple editing plug-in available for this task called Borders & Titles and as the name says you can add simple borders and text to your images within Aperture 2.1. It’s a sample plug-in provided by Apple and it’s fully functional. You can download it from Apple’s Developer Connection website without registration:
Aperture Edit Plugin - Borders & Titles
The downlaod package includes the source code too so you can adjust the plug-in if you’re able to code Cocoa. After downloading put the BordersAndTitles.ApertureEdit plug-in into /Library/Application Support/Aperture/Plug-Ins and access the plug-in from Aperture.
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July 11th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Too bad this plugin crops when it adds a border. I’d love it if
Apple added an adjustment brick that allowed a border and a title to be added in a non-destructive manner.
July 11th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Hi Paul, agree with you. I’m not a big fan of the destructive concept of the plug-in architecture for Aperture.
But you can define a watermark image in your export presets which is Apple’s concept of watermarking images since version 1.0. I’ve written a tutorial about it some weeks ago but it can be a bit complicated if you just want to QUICKLY add some text.
So I hope Apple comes out with some more bricks and won’t let the just the plug-ins provide more function in the future. But telling your wishes to Apple is always a good idea since Aperture 2 was a good example of software incorporating user feedback. Here’s the Aperture feedback form.