This Monday, Apple announced the release of its new free Imaging Plug-in Software Development Kit for their advanced, imaging-editing program Aperture.
The Aperture application, available since 2005, allows its users to use advanced editing tools that can enhance the picture’s detail and saturation, darken its corners, or copy the changes made to another picture. Photos can be organized into groups of projects, folders, albums and smart albums, which is much more conveniently set up than many other photo-editing applications.
What the new Aperture 2.1 SDK does, is actually allow its users to create their own image editing codes such as displaying a custom interface, requesting an editable versions of an image, adding metadata to images, manipulating image data for images in the Aperture library, and importing the images back into the Aperture library. The SDK also allows people to build export plug ins, which let them send images to stock agencies, store images online, transfer images for high-end post-production work, and sell images through online commercial services.