Stefan Hafeneger

I haven’t blogged anything about my internship at Apple after I started it in June. There were several reasons for that including secrecy, twitter and time.

I gave a talk about my experience at Apple in September at the Aachen CocoaHeads meeting and my friends and family know of course everything I did during the summer (except the work I did there), so there is no reason to write about this here. If you still want to know some details (because you want to do an internship at Apple for example) drop me a line. Well, the only thing I will mention here is, that I did a pretty good job, had a lot of fun and met great people.

Due to the first point, Apple offered me to come back this summer and a part time job as well. I accepted both offers of course and am now working for Apple again (from Germany) and will be back in Cupertino in June.

I today released version 1.2 beta 1 of my Aperture TiltShift plug-in.

The new plug-in version has controls for saturation, contrast and vignette and comes with a new focus control user interface. The tilt shift rendering algorithm has been refined and the new preview rendering engine increases your workflow speed even more. For better review you can zoom and scroll into the image and temporarily show the master image like in Aperture.

The beta version is fully functional and if you have already purchased a license key you can use the new version without any limitations. Bug reports and further feedback are highly appreciated.

Download: http://www.tiltshiftplugin.com/download/

Version 1.1 of my Aperture TiltShift Plug-In is now available on the new product website www.tiltshiftplugin.com.

I am currently working on a new version of my Aperture TiltShift Plug-In. It will have a few more features like more degrees of freedom of the virtual focal plane, adjustable blur etc.

Since I don’t have a licensing model yet built-in I am going to release version 1.0 for free and then start selling version 1.1 in a few days.

Download: TiltShift.ApertureEdit.zip

I created an Aperture Edit Plug-In for computer generated tilt-shift photography. The software allows you to create fake miniature versions of regular photos, simulating the effect of expensive tilt-shift lenses.

Since I hardly made any money so far with Sofortbild I want to sell this plug-in. But I didn’t yet came up with a price. So please let me know what you would be willing to pay (I was thinking about something like ten bucks).

Download: TiltShift.dmg.zip