I’m operating on one hour of sleep. I went to a crazy red-carpet show. I went to a party at the most crazy mansion I’ve ever been. There will be many photos coming soon.

News to any of you stumbling on this website because of my occasional mentions of Aperture. Picturecode’s Noise Ninja, long since my favorite noise-reduction utility very recently came out with an Aperture plugin for their software, which is great news as per Aperture having seemingly useless noise-reduction functions integrated into it. It lacks a few features that the full photoshop plugin has (like auto-selecting camera profiles) but it still has the main features I found myself using, which typically was auto-profiling, and then adjusting the amounts where needed. If I’m reading it right, it can only be purchased with, or as an upgrade to, any existing noise ninja license. (The cost is $20 as an upgrade). I suggest getting the pro bundle, which while costing a bit more, allows for edits on 16-bit images so you’re not ditching any color information, plus multi-core and batch support for when you need to noise-reduce a big swath of images at once.

Even without the Aperture plugin, anyone using Photoshop who ever shoots above ISO 800 has use for this product, so take a look. You can download any of their software at any time, to try it out, but will just be saved with watermarks or grid lines without purchasing a license.

Keep it real, folks.