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Using Alien Skin Plug-Ins in Aperture

Finley Lee
posted this on September 28, 2010 09:42

Any of our products that are supported in Lightroom can be run on an image in Aperture when the plug-in is configured as the external editor.

  1. In Aperture select Aperture > Preferences and choose the Export tab.
  2. Click the “choose…” button next to “External Photo Editor” and navigate to your Alien Skin plugin application file.
  3. Select TIFF (16-bit or 8-bit) as the External Editor File Format and sRGB as the Color Space.

Application file locations:
Bokeh 2 - Macintosh HD > Applications
Exposure 4 - Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support > Alien Skin > Exposure 4 > Alien Skin Exposure 4.app
Blow Up 3 -  Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support > Alien Skin > Blow Up 3 > Alien Skin Blow Up 3.app
Snap Art 3 - Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support > Alien Skin > Snap Art 3 > Alien Skin Snap Art 3.app


After configuration, select the image you wish to adjust. Then choose Photos->Edit with Alien Skin Exposure 4… to launch Exposure. 

NOTE: Aperture only allows you to set up one external editor at a time so reconfiguration is required to use another external editor.
 
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