Thanks to a new plug-in filter set from Image Trends, photographers can now quickly and easily correct hemispheric fisheye lens distortion without leaving Aperture. Bullish on the new, Aperture 2.1 image editing SDK, Image Trends plans “to offer PearlyWhites and ShineOff Aperture plug-ins within the next 60 days with additional products to follow,” announced president and CEO Dan Sullivan.

Apple has won “two highly-coveted black pencils at the prestigious D&AD Awards, for the design of the iMac and the iPhone,” reports Mark Sweney (guardian.co.uk). Though, according to Cheney, “a black pencil is notoriously difficult to achieve,” Apple “has won a total of six black pencils since 1999,” making “the US technology company the most successful in the 45-year history of the event.”

Have you ever wanted to mark up a PDF, adding website links, including comments, or identifying copy to revise or delete? If you’re using Mac OS X Leopard, you have all the tools you need to annotate PDFs. You’ll find them in Preview, and the latest Quick Tip of the Week demonstrates how you can take advantage of them.

When photo journalist John McDermott covers a World Cup Soccer event, he can capture more than 1,000 images a day. And since his editor needs his best shots the very same day, McDermott needs to edit his photos even more quickly than he took them. Watch the video now playing on the Aperture site and find out how Aperture helps McDermott make his final selects quickly, easily, and enjoyably.