Aperture Assistant, the visual automation tool for use with Apple Aperture. Build automated workflows of any complexity using a simple visual interface, and perform tasks that can't be done with Aperture alone.

Aperture Assistant supports Aperture 1.5.6, and Aperture 2.x, on OS X 10.5 and OS X 10.6.


NEWS 02/05/2010 - With Aperture 3.0.3, work can now start on updating Aperture Assistant to work with Aperture 3. Blog post.
NEWS 28/02/2010 - the Aperture 3 upgrade poll is now closed, the keyboard image adjustments poll has now started.
NEWS 19/02/2010 - you can browse through some Aperture 3 Presets here and upload your own as well.
NEWS 16/02/2010 - I'm doing some market research into the future of Aperture Assistant and GPS2Aperture - if you have a few minutes please take the time to fill out this survey.
NEWS - Aperture 3 has now been released. Aperture Assistant and GPS2Aperture do not work with Aperture 3 at this time. Expect to see Aperture Assistant updated, but most of GPS2Aperture's features are now included within Aperture, so it will no longer be developed.

A small selection of Aperture Assistant's features:

• Automatically find all Libraries on your computer and easily swap between them.
• Export images using different presets depending on metadata/ratings etc.
• Export to different folders depending on metadata.
• Export echoing Aperture's internal organisational structure.
• Open exported files in another application, without setting up a hot folder.
• Export any combination of metadata to comma- or tab-delimited text files, one per output folder or one per Version.
• Set metadata and Version Names from other metadata, for instance setting up more complex date naming.
• Find and replace in metadata.
• Find all the Albums that a Version appears in and then reveal those Albums (Aperture 2.1 and higher).
• Add Versions to Albums automatically (Aperture 2.1 and higher).
• Make Burn Folders directly from the Masters, whether they are managed or referenced.
• Create Keynote presentations with body and title text based on metadata.
• Find and tag duplicate Masters.