cschonwalder

OK, here goes a big one. I know it is still early, but as one who has 10-30 thousand images in my Aperture library, I want to get expert input on how others in my boat are handling this.

I feel that Apple has bailed out on real photographers and will not wait to see what photo.app has to offer. I'll go with Adobe since they are photographer-centric. Learning LR6 now; but will soon want to move my library to that system. I know many of my adjustments made in Aperture won't carry over in the record for further modification, but this is OK since my final images tend to stay final.

Thoughts, advice etc. from UHHers who are facing the same issue. Thanks!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Searcher will have a good answer.

Gitchigumi Loc: Wake Forest, NC

Here is a link to some good info on the topic: http://lightroomkillertips.com/10-things-aperture-users-need-to-know-about-lightroom/

And, you will be pleasantly surprised at the amount of great, free, info there is available on using Lightroom. It is very powerful... Good luck with your transition to LR!

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

Here we are waiting on Adobe, they are working on a patch which is intended to import from Aperture to LR.

I have no personal experience of Aperture, but from what I have read it works in a very similar way to LR - stores the edits in a database.

The two databases will be different and incompatible with each other - hence the patch requirement.

If you are not concerned with saving edits, (unlikely), you could simply import the images into LR5 (LR6 is not out yet), but these would be the same as straight out of camera, or you could export finished images from Aperture and import those to LR. In both cases your editing strokes would be lost.

I would hold on for Adobe's patch but in the meantime study LR and work out how the collections and keywords operate.

Birdpix wrote some really instructive tutorials for LR4, but they are very applicable to subsequent versions (and probably will still be valid for LR6!)

See below for the links to the tutorials:


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Searcher Loc: Kent, England

That is a great link, I have learned more about Aperture in 2 minutes reading this article than ever before.

brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

Don't be overly surprised if Adobe provides a converter of some sort to move your Aperture catalog into a Lightroom catalog. Please don't misunderstand!! I've not read, nor heard, of this happening. Just saying.

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

See my post above: It was announced a couple of days ago in the Adobe Forums.

Dale40203 Loc: Louisville, KY

There is another list called "Aperture Vs Lightroom" which is winding down (for obvious reasons), but the owner is putting together a transition guide for Aperture users facing the switch to Lightroom.

Try here:
http://aperturevslightroom.com/how-to-migrate-from-aperture-to-lightroom/

bweber Loc: Newton, MA

Apple will continue to support the existing version of Aperture with the new operating system. I like the Aperture works for me with the NIK plugins and some other plugins I use. I do not see any need at this time to learn LT and to pay Adobe a monthly fee to use it.

Things may change when the new MAC oiperating system is introduced in the fall. I am waiting for now.

Dale40203 Loc: Louisville, KY

You don't need to subscribe to a cloud version of Lightroom. You can buy it outright for around $135.

stan0301 Loc: Colorado

Apple used to host websites as well--and swore they always would--which is why I will never ever uses the cloud.
Stan