I've been a little lax on upgrading my programs on my computer and meanwhile, my photo library has gotten really big. I have currently 20,000 photos which comprises 92GB. My iPhoto is starting to run a little slowly and I'm running out of HD space. I am hearing that Apeture is a good way to go because it will let me put my photos on an external HD (which I would back up) and I can break up the photos into seperate libraries. On the Apple website it says "Aperture and iPhoto Unified Library
Share one photo library across both applications
No need to import, export, or reprocess photos from one app to the other"
The "both applications" confuses me. If I get Apeture, do I import my new photos into iPhoto or Apeture? Will Apeture open up and import my pictures the way iPhoto does? Do I even need to use iPhoto anymore? I wonder if I get Apeture if I need to upgrade to the newest version of iPhoto or just stick with iPhoto '09. Could someone explain this? Thanks
Share one photo library across both applications
No need to import, export, or reprocess photos from one app to the other"
The "both applications" confuses me. If I get Apeture, do I import my new photos into iPhoto or Apeture? Will Apeture open up and import my pictures the way iPhoto does? Do I even need to use iPhoto anymore? I wonder if I get Apeture if I need to upgrade to the newest version of iPhoto or just stick with iPhoto '09. Could someone explain this? Thanks