mscott842

I committed long ago to Apple’s Aperture as my photo editor of choice. A couple of years ago Apple stopped supporting it. Has anyone made the transition from Aperture to Lightroom that can comment on the process? Is learning curve on LTR challenging? Can you migrate your library with ease? I like Aperture and still use it but suspect that soon it will stop being compatible with camera software.

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

I have not had to do this but did recall there was a command in LR to do this, but I do not know anything about it other than to show you where it is.

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CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

The picture above from viathelens shows the same process I found discussed on multiple sites:

To migrate from Aperture:

1. In Lightroom, go to File > Plug-in Extras > Import from Aperture Library.
2. Select the location of your Aperture library and choose a new location for your images.
3. Click the Options button if you want to change any settings prior to migration.
4. Click the Import button to start the migration.

For a LR learning curve, your existing experience on post processing will help you quickly understand 'what' LR can do. You'll just have to learn 'how' if the steps are not obvious. Coming from another product to LR a few years ago, watching some getting started videos on utube helped me "see" the software in action and the steps performed.

ColonelButler Loc: Niagara-on-the-Lake ON Canada

I did the migration shortly after Apple stopped supporting Aperture. A few things to keep in mind:
Only your original out of the camera images (in my case RAW) are copied to Lightroom. Your edits are not. Figure out how you are going to deal with this. I kept my legacy Aperture library of images in tact and created a duplicate (unedited) in Lightroom.
Lightroom is a powerful tool for managing your photo library. Do some research and decide how you are going to set up your catalogue before you input. (Personally, I store by Year>Month>Subject of Event or Shoot)
The only thing i really miss from Aperture is the full screen HUD feature.

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

Not sure what the "full screen HUD feature is?" You can see a photo full screen in LR, but not work on it full screen. The "F" key from any module is full screen. And you can blow up a photo to a very large size and then work on only that section in the Develop module.

IDDOC

I too committed to Aperture and have continued to use it. I tried LR, but found it cumbersome compared to Aperture.
I am now committed to Luminar, which I have found to be as easy as Aperture, but much more sophisticated. I am hoping that when Luminar comes out with their DAM I will be able to completely move my Library to Luminar and retire Aperture.

greg14

I did not go the plug in route.
I migrated the images with edits in two formats : Jpeg or PSD, for whatever reason they transferred as the same file size.
Depending on the importance that is which file I used.
I did not want to be bothered readjusting all the images.
It also gave me that ability to put them in separate files in LR
It will take some extra time, as you will most likely do a group at a time, but that to me saves time on the back end.
One of the minor issues I had was the inability to move some of the files in LR, BUT there were 100's of files that I scanned from a Nikon Coolscan years before.
I also transferred all of the images to Photos when that App was created as a backup.
I most likely transferred 2000 images.
Try a few and see how it works for you.
Remember doing it this way does not remove the file form Aperture, the original is still there for as long as Aperture is alive.
I am not sure if going the plug in route transfers the image out of aperture, I would not like that.

ColonelButler Loc: Niagara-on-the-Lake ON Canada

Full screen with HUD was a feature in Aperture. Not available in Lightroom. Hit the H kew while in full screen mode in Aperture.