Digital Home Thoughts: Apple Adds Image-editing Plug-ins to Aperture

"Apple has added image-editing plug-ins for its Aperture photo editing software as part of a new release of the product. Aperture 2.1 is a free download for those already running Aperture 2.0, which was released in February. The addition of support for third-party plug-ins gives Aperture users a way to use specialized editing tools not supported by Apple inside the application. The new release is basically a software development kit for Aperture developers, and has been expected since the release of Aperture 2.0. It comes with one Apple-developed plug-in called Dodge & Burn, but other developers such as Nik Software, PictureCode, and Digital Film Tools are expected to bring their plug-ins to Aperture over the next several months, according to Apple. Support for plug-ins is something that Adobe's Lightroom--Aperture's nemesis--has had since last year, but development of image-edting plug-ins for Lightroom has taken some time."

I figured this would be welcome news to all our Mac readers. Unfortunately I have not used Aperture yet but my girlfriend just bough a Macbook Pro so I am looking forward to giving it a whirl. Any words of advice or cute tips when using it?