"Renting" vs Perpetual license to use is a personal choice, for me, I still have Aperture installed and useable and my Aperture Library of images is still on disk, however, with Apple dropping support, no new updates/features I myself felt more comfortable jumping to Lightroom.

When I understood what the Creative Cloud really was, I was happy to start renting for $9.99 a month.

If all I was getting was Lightroom then I would have bought, as it was though, it gave me an always current copy of Lightroom and an always current copy of Photoshop for cheap.

For my hobby, the CC deal is great in my opinion.

EDIT: In fact, now reading this I do not know why I am keeping Aperture and my old library - time for some house cleaning ;)

"Renting" vs Perpetual license to use is a personal choice, for me, I still have Aperture installed and useable and my Aperture Library of images is still on disk, however, with Apple dropping support, no new updates/features I myself felt more comfortable jumping to Lightroom.

When I understood what the Creative Cloud really was, I was happy to start renting for $9.99 a month.

If all I was getting was Lightroom then I would have bought, as it was though, it gave me an always current copy of Lightroom and an always current copy of Photoshop for cheap.

For my hobby, the CC deal is great in my opinion.

EDIT: In fact, now reading this I do not know why I am keeping Aperture and my old library - time for some house cleaning ;)

We have dealt with Apple in the near past and found Them to be very accommodating and helpful to us in solving any problem with Aperture.

Now, however our issue, as is that of fellow Apple users on UHH, is more complex. You see, we have an iMac, an iPad, and two iPhones. Therefore, we are loyal Apple customers who now feel we are being betrayed by Apple as they take away the Aperture post processing software. Aperture is just complex enough to make it an elegant and extremely useful tool in reworking our pictures. In addition, it readily accepts add-ons such as the Nik, Topaz and Photomatix, among others. It has taken me a while to learn it, but I am now becoming quite comfortable with it.

As most of you know, Aperture is being replaced by Photos. Let me tell you that Apple should be ashamed to put their name on Photos. It is simplistic, juvenile, and doesn’t even do a fraction of the post-processing and filing as did the old iPhoto. With due respect, Photos reminds me of the internal software that might be found in a multi-colored Fisher-Price child’s computer in a toy store.

I read photography chat rooms including UHH all the time where people regularly complain about Photos and it’s simplicity. They are told that they need to subscribe to Lightroom. When they do, they find out that not only is Lightroom very difficult to use on a Mac but it has a long and complex learning curve as well. I, for one don’t want to try to learn Lightroom. It will take me a long time to get me to where I am with Aperture, and it’s $10.00 per month, until who knows when they will increase it.

I can’t imagine a company the size of Apple actually making the decision to replace an application that has grown, been streamlined and accepted like Aperture; with such an inferior product such as Photos. There has to be more here than meets the eye. Is Apple planning to get out of the photo application business altogether? Is this their first step out the door? Shame on Apple.

They’re much bigger than we are, but who knows I hope that you all can find someone who will read this and make a difference. Aperture users: Please email Apple now!

"Renting" vs Perpetual license to use is a personal choice, for me, I still have Aperture installed and useable and my Aperture Library of images is still on disk, however, with Apple dropping support, no new updates/features I myself felt more comfortable jumping to Lightroom.

When I understood what the Creative Cloud really was, I was happy to start renting for $9.99 a month.

If all I was getting was Lightroom then I would have bought, as it was though, it gave me an always current copy of Lightroom and an always current copy of Photoshop for cheap.

For my hobby, the CC deal is great in my opinion.

EDIT: In fact, now reading this I do not know why I am keeping Aperture and my old library - time for some house cleaning ;)

I, too, am on a Mac using Aperture. When Apple announced its' demise, I, too, had a hissy fit. After calming down, I decided to just read, research and watch. I guess I was hoping in the long run that someone would come out of no where and rescue by purchasing Aperture to keep the program alive. Well, that didn't happen. Overall, the demise of Aperture is a very smart business move for Apple.

Photos, I waited ever so patiently for the release. It actually was what I expected all along, useless for my purposes. Affinity ... don't even want to hop on that ship.

I purchased Adobe Photoshop Elements 13. Found a great deal on it at Costco. It was my way to test out an Adobe product. Having used Aperture and before that Corel, I found it very user friendly and adapted well. But, I need the Organization or Database for photos. And, that will be Lightroom. I will do the rent for $9.99 per month. Actually, I'm excited now that I made my decision.

I do have a couple of questions for those who have done the move please.
1. Should I just press that button that lets Adobe do the move for me? Or should I do it manually?
2. I have read previous blogs and I need a direct answer to these two ... EXIF data and GPS data. I'm assuming my camera data moves easily over but I'm not sure about GPS.
3. If my photos are set up database style in Aperture, will Adobe keep my photos organized the same way in the end with the same labeling?
4. And, finally, NIK Collection & Topaz Labs products, will Adobe recognize that they have already been installed and being used in Elements?

Thank you all so much. Reading the discussions everyday has helped me immensely!