With Lightroom about to launch, it's no harm to see what's going on across at its Mac-limited competitor, Aperture. Automator actions and stock library plug ins give you a pretty good idea of the sort of things to expect once Lightroom gets its scripting and SDK released.

Other Aperture resources:

• Bagelturf articles “written to be useful, digestible, and memorable”
• Aperture forum
• Annoture connects iView and Aperture
• O'Reilly blog
• Apple support, resources, tips, tutorials