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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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Today Nik Software announced the availability of it’s U-point-technology based editing plugin for Apple’s Aperture 2.1 called Viveza.

With Viveza photographers are able to select areas from their images and adjust them separately from the rest of the picture by defining so called Color Control Points.

A 15 day trial is available from the website of the plugin. The whole plugin will cost you US$ 249.

Nik Software Viveza Website

Now it should be just a matter of days or weeks before the other recently announced plugins will be available too.

Finally here’s a first test of the plugin from photographer Jim Crotty:
Testing Viveza and Your Opinion

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