Aperture Plugin

I am a fan of Apple’s Aperture 3. I’ve used Aperture since its first incarnation and with the growth in third party plugins, I have increasingly seen more and more of my workflow reside exclusively within Aperture. There is one aspect of my workflow however that I have been unable to find a plugin for- stitching panoramas! Over the last 3 years I have used a number of great panorama stitching applications including Hugin, Autopano pro and Doubletake and I have eagerly awaited an Aperture plugin. Unfortunately these have not been forthcoming so I have decided to create my own. Until 4 weeks ago I knew nothing about Xcode, programming in Cocoa or Objective C, so this has been quite a been quite a steep learning curve. Apple’s release of an Aperture plugin SDK has made my life considerably easier, but this endeavor is a long way away from the last time I programmed in Turbo Pascal in a high school lab some 16 years ago!

Thanks and credit must go to all those who have done so much of the hard work that I have used in putting this plugin together. Explicitly I need to acknowledge to work of the following people:

Professor Helmut Dersch and all the Panotools contributors.

In order to use Panoplugin without a watermark, you will need to purchase a licences below. Each license costs USD19.95 and entitles the holder to use Panoplugin for non-commercial purposes. Because some of the libraries used to detect control points are subject to patents in certain territories, this program may not be used for commercial purposes.