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With the release of Aperture 2.1 Apple introduced a plugin architecture for adding third party image adjustment and export plugins. Now the first third party image adjustment plugins for Aperture 2.1 have arrived. And they can definitely make you stop roundtripping your pictures to Photoshop and back. For now a total of 14 plugins from 9 companys were announced which are waiting to help you with your Aperture 2 workflow.
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Ever wondered what the heck 6500 Kelvin has to do with your photos? Here’s an in-depth article from the blog of James Duncan Davidson for better understanding of the whole color and white balance thing in photography.

Measuring the Color of Light by James Duncan Davidson:

Like all settings, the color of light has a unit associated with it. The unit, however, isn’t unique to specifying the color of light. Instead, it’s the same SI unit that is used for temperature: the Kelvin. I know that the first few times I delved into this subject matter, I thought it was a strange unit to use, mostly because light itself doesn’t have a temperature. Since it’s radiation, when it hits a surface it can cause that surface to heat up. But the light itself is neither hot nor cold. So, why the heck is a unit of temperature used to describe the color of it? …

And another in-depth article from James which is a follow up of the above article:
Color Temperature and White Balance

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