BorderFX is a new Aperture export plug-in from Reinhard Uebel. It's a beta, and it's free, but you can donate on his web site. You can leave comments on his blog as well.

BorderFX comes with an installer that appeared to freeze when I ran it, but apparently it was just waiting for my disks to spin up so it could display them, so give it a little time. The installer puts the plug-in into the system's Application Support/Aperture folder hierarchy, so it requires and Admin password, but is consequently available to all users on the machine.

The window looks like this with a preview of one of the selected images on the right:

The cog menu saves and restores the settings as presets so you can define different borders for different uses:

The Output Sizes menu can also be customized:

The main part of the controls is tabbed and has settings for the image:

And for the border:

I found the controls a little quirky. It was quite hard to get what I wanted and I never did fully figure out how everything interacted. With no scaling option it was hard to see what was happening. I could drag the image around, but I could not figure out what the horizontal yellow lines meant:

It's a beta, so I expect some rough edges. It certainly looks useful.

Tags: Aperture, Plug-ins