July 24th, 2006
ApertureExport?
A little feedback thread here: how many people are interested in a product like FlickrExport, but for Aperture instead of iPhoto? It couldn’t be as well-integrated as FlickrExport is with iPhoto, since current versions of Aperture do not have a plugin API. However, it may be possible to have the notional ApertureExport application that can talk to Aperture in other ways.
I’d appreciate feedback on whether there’s demand for such a product. I know I want an ApertureExport myself, since I’m using Aperture more and more these days.
July 24th, 2006 at 11:54 am
For me, the answer is “yes, but not yet”.
I’ll be using Aperture for all my digital SLR pics just as soon as I buy a machine capable of running it (early next year, most likely) , and I’ll be wanting the Flickr functionality right about then.
July 24th, 2006 at 11:56 am
I’d love an Aperture export application. The only reason I stopped using Aperture was because there was no easy way to export photos to Flickr.
July 24th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Yep, I’d buy one of them. It might encourage me to actually use Flickr a bit more…
July 24th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
How about a GraphicConverterExport? Or a standalone, “posh” version of Uploadr? …I’ll get my coat now…
July 24th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
Yes, absolutely. I’d happily pay for an ApertureExport.
Currently — though I haven’t been doing much recently — I’m working on photos in Aperture, exporting them to flat files, importing them to the appropriate groups in iPhoto, then exporting those to flickr. Not ideal.
July 24th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
I’d be buying that the first day it came out.
July 24th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
As people’s photo collections grow, and as people outgrow iPhoto, an Aperture plugin would be a shrewd tool to develop
And Aperture’s lack of getting stuff onto Flickr is one of the reasons I haven’t even tried it yet. I’m sure I’m not alone!
July 24th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Possibly. I’m growing out of iPhoto but I think I’m more interested in switching to Lightroom. It seems to have a plugin api. Its only available as a beta so far, but it runs on my current machine and I’d need to buy a new machine to run Aperture.
July 24th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
Yes. Yesyesyesyesyes. I need it to grab tags from Aperture (via EXIF maybe? I don’t know where Aperture keeps that data) and attach those tags to each image in Flickr. Once my copy of Aperture arrives (today, I hope), my workflow will shake out properly.
July 24th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
You already know my answer is yes please!
July 24th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Yes, please! (I’ll buy my copy today, if it’ll help)
July 24th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
An unconditional “yes”. Build it and I will pay; heck, I’ll pay in advance if you can promise it will materialize one day.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
I’d also like something that would transfer images back and forth between iPhoto and Aperture so I could take advantage of iLife’s integration with selected photos. Sort of like set up a “Favourites” album in Aperture that would be shared over in iPhoto so I could use those photos in other apps that can access iPhoto’s library. That would be a killer app.
July 24th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Yes, i want it !!!! Please ! Please ! Please ! Please !
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July 24th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Yep. Will pay $20 for an Aperture Exporter. Would prefer it has the selecting and tagging power of 1001.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
Yes.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
how often can I type YES Please!!!!!!
July 24th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Slash AOL: Me too.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
I am dying for something like this right now. And yes, I would pay. See this post http://www.sauria.com/blog/2006/07/03#1532 for my feature requests…
July 24th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
PictureSync has been working for me, but there’s a lot of potential for a cleaner workflow with an Aperture-specific tool. So, if it realizes any of that potential, I’d buy it.
July 24th, 2006 at 11:02 pm
**raises hand**
I’ll take one please
July 25th, 2006 at 12:21 am
Sure. I’ve been using PictureSync since I stopped using iPhoto about a year ago, but it’s always been slightly odd about things (popping up random error dialog boxes that forced you to force-quit it and start all over again, you couldn’t just drag and drop stuff into it without it getting confused, it almost-but-not-quite gets the tags right when pulling stuff from aperture and uploading to flickr…) – it just doesn’t feel as reliable as FlickrExport used to.
July 25th, 2006 at 1:14 am
This may be backwards, but I’m not sure yet if I will be moving to Aperture, though I do know that the existence of ApertureExport is a necessary condition for my moving to Aperture.
For me the ability to attach all of the title, description, and tagging meta-data to a picture locally, while possibly unconnected, is huge. Thus the key feature of an exporter is just being able to export photo with that local meta-data still attached. Of course on the fly format conversion and resizing is very important as well, but the nice detailed UI and ability to deal with groups and privacy and such is just icing.
I’m still waiting for the Aperture codebase to settle down a bit and shed some the quality issues, which then means I might as well wait for the full release of Lightroom to compare, but iPhoto holds back my photographic potential (my lack of talent has nothing to do with it!
), so I will definitely be upgrading my digital darkroom to something in the near future.
July 25th, 2006 at 3:34 am
I would love a direct way to export from Aperture to Flickr. I’m now exporting to a folder and then uploading with Uploadr. Not the worst solution ever, but I really miss the iPhoto plugin. I’d buy it on release; I’ve already purchased the iPhoto plugin…
July 25th, 2006 at 5:12 am
Yes. Honestly, the only reason I haven’t started using Aperature is there’s no easy way to export to Flickr.
July 25th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Yes Yes Yes its the only major part missing.
Didnt you make a post quite a while ago saying you were already working on it?
July 25th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
i just paid for flickrexport but yes it would be great to make the switch to aperture. maybe a crossover fee of $5?
July 25th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Velda, yes, I have mentioned this before. The point of this post is to see if people really want such a product. Seems like they do!
July 25th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
ah, zooomr export please!
July 25th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
oh hells ya, count me in too
July 25th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
I would LOVE one. And I’d love an Aperture -> Gallery exporter too…. I’d pay for BOTH of those if they meet your usual code quality.
July 25th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Please do, we really want it !
July 25th, 2006 at 6:06 pm
Yes, yes, and yes! Bought FlickrExport, will buy an Aperture version
July 25th, 2006 at 6:42 pm
I’m leaning towards Lightroom. I’ve found the RAW converter to be much better than Aperture.
But don’t let me stop you
An exporter for Aperture would be great for those using Aperture…
July 25th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
This would be amazing, as of now i take all my pictures and export them to jpeg, import into iphoto, and flickrexport2 them. this would save a lot of time i would def be interested
July 25th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
Hell yes!
July 25th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
Aperture (and maybe Lightroom) would be great… I’d buy this for sure. The curren solution of exporting to a folder and then using Uploadr or others doesn’t keep things consistant (EXIF, tags, etc…) so integration is definately required here!
July 25th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
Yes, please do it. I was hoping someone would make a Aperture -> Flickr app.
July 25th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
I would pay for it. Maybe you could offer an iphoto/aperture combo pack.
July 25th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
Yesssss.
July 25th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
It would be great.
July 25th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
Please do!
I’d pay quite a bit for this, as would my gf. Features that would be nice:
* many of the current automator-based solutions use a tag to indicate photos to upload “flickr” and retag after “flickered”. A customisable system that did the same would be nice.
* As I understand it, ordering is an issue; people like having their photostream in a given order but the current options do not allow for this. if the pictures could be extracted from aperture into an intermediate interface, to reorder and preview before sending them on to flickr, that would be nice.
* Use of the aperture raw->jpg system would be nice
* if the aperture app could also (optionally) push photos from aperture to iphoto (so that people could have an iphoto library that integrated well with the other ilife apps, that would be great. A similar keyword system (iphoto/iphotoed) could be used.
I truly hope you do decide to do this; aperture 1.1 is wonderful and this userbase is more likely to use applications like flickr and more likely to pay for shareware (rather than complaining needlessly).
July 25th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Oh hells yes! I’ve been getting by with PictureSync, but, well, it sucks. The UI is odd, the ordering is weird and I get lots of odd errors.
July 25th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Yes, please build this!
July 25th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
I switched to Apeture about 6 months ago and my posting to Flickr has been a nightmare ever since. Frasier, in the parlance of ours times: Please hook it up! please, with sugar on top. The current options are just really clunky and hard to use. We could use some connectedflow-love over here in aperturelandia. thanks!
July 25th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
I am an avid Aperture user and this would be awesome. I’ve used your FlickrExport plugin religiously in iPhoto, but am doing the Export Versions, FlickrUpload Utility methods – sucks.
July 25th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
i think it would be a well good idea, since i use aperture and do like uploading to flickr, atm i have to export to desktop, then use the lflickr uploadr
July 25th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
In short: Yes, please!!!
July 26th, 2006 at 1:35 am
I’ll take one for *Photoshop* please.
July 26th, 2006 at 1:59 am
YES YES YES!
July 26th, 2006 at 3:53 am
Yes… I’d love to see an Aperture plugin for Flickr. It would save me the exporting to desktop, importing to iPhoto step I do now.
July 26th, 2006 at 4:21 am
Good God yes, Frasier! Actually in the process of making the jump from all iPhoto all the time to all Aperture, and while I’m cheaping out on buying FE as a result, would absolutely pay premium for a similar option with Aperture.
July 26th, 2006 at 5:15 am
YES
It is the reason I have not made the purchase of Aperture yet.
July 26th, 2006 at 5:20 am
i’d buy it for sure.
July 26th, 2006 at 6:59 am
Yes, please! And please, support IPTC metadata export as Flickr tags!
July 26th, 2006 at 8:26 am
I love Aperture. It’s way more professional, and has a lot more features than iPhoto.
An application like this would be wonderful! Even as an idea, this would be much appreciated.
July 26th, 2006 at 9:30 am
Yes, pretty please!
July 26th, 2006 at 11:56 am
+1!
July 26th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Aperture to Flickr Anyone?
Fraser Speirs at the Connected Flow Blog is polling the peanut gallery about wants/needs/desires for an Aperture to Flickr exporter. If you’re an Aperture hound… you might check out his iPhoto FlickrExporter. It’s every bit as good as…
July 26th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
Yes please
July 26th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
I would love to see a Flickr plugin for Aperture! Currently I’m using an Automator workflow to facilitate exporting images out of Aperture and uploading them to Flickr but it’s a cumbersome and clunky process that doesn’t feel as smooth an intuitive as using iPhoto + FlickrExport.
Even with a reduced feature set from your iPhoto/Flickr plug-in, I would still purchase the plugin for Aperture.
July 27th, 2006 at 8:43 am
Yeaaaaah! That would be great. Aperture rocks!
July 27th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Yep, I’d definitely be interested in a Flickr exporter for Aperture, and would definitely buy it at a sane price.
However from the point of view of making money from it, I suspect your best course would be to write a little standalone core that then can be talked to plugins written for iPhoto/Aperture/Lightroom/Capture One Pro, or even a standalone GUI, and charge for each of the versions that talk to the common core.
I suspect you’ve thought about that already though
July 28th, 2006 at 5:24 am
I’d very much like to see one for Aperture and for Adobe Lightroom. Much more interested in Lightroom!
July 28th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
I SEZ YES PLZ.
I love Aperture, and half the reason I stopped using it was the fact that it had no quick exports to Flickr or anything..
.. the other half was the fact that I don’t have a camera that supports RAW.
August 1st, 2006 at 3:18 am
I’d definitely be interested in this.
August 3rd, 2006 at 9:11 pm
Yes please! FlickrExport is one of the things I miss most having moved from iPhoto to Aperture in the last six months.