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.
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.
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.
came across your site which using google looking for adding text in aperture, just wanted to say, love the layout of your site. excellent stuff.
what a shame this would have done me a big favour if this app didnt crop. Is there anything else out there that could do the trick though ?
Regards
Donna-Michelle