Came across a good free plugin for Aperture this afternoon whilst working out watermarks for posting images here. It’s called BorderFX and it allows you to create watermarks outside of the actual image, in the border. I’ve been searching for something like this for a while, as it’s never too nice to overlay a watermark on an image.

You can do more than just watermark or overlay text, such as create borders and framing, crop and resize and also overlay other meta data. As an example of the border and text overlay, here’s another photo from our trip to the US.

Anyone whose pretty eagled eyed will notice the new Share This link just next to the comments link on each post. I implemented the Share This plugin by Alex King this morning in the hope of driving some more traffic to the website and allowing visitors to bookmark and posts they find interesting.

It’s quite a subtle integration into the posts, but I didn’t want anything overly obtrusive and ugly and Alex’s plugin does just that. I did change the default icon that shows next to the link as it was a little bulky and frankly quite ugly!
The link also allows you to email posts to people, which kills two birds with one stone.