'This should prove to be very handy.'
John Waugh

Flowchart-Based Aperture Automation

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 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.