TonyK
macrumors 65816
if iPhoto is doing what you want then use it. There is no need to change your methods or workflow just to match someone else's ideas.
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Aperture vs. Lightroom
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No. For me Aperture is a better balance. I used iPhoto for years but I needed more control over my images. I didn't want to go back to Photoshop so Aperture fits somewhere in the middle. (and the price doesn't hurt!)
I would pay a great deal of money to the developer who wrote an app to convert Aperture Libraries to Lightroom... Bringing all of my adjustments with it 😀
Ps. I do use reference image files
Ps. I do use reference image files
Well over 10,000 photos to migrate 🙁 I would pay a nice 1922 No D Lincoln cent for that software. Luckily meta data transfers readily and a large portion of my 10,000+ pictures are scanned slides tiff I never edited. Been over 4 years since I purchased Aperture 3.0 with all its ugly bugs. Should of gone with Lightroom. The bugs were a premonition of Aperture's future.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Didn't they just release LR5, like 6 months ago?
I've long given up seeing a major version of Aperture but yet it still fits my needs better then LR.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Gotcha, thanks. If LR had an option for a library instead of image references, I'd jump ship. I like LR, but the way I organize my images and work. Aperture is a better fit. I easily create new libraries each year and move the older ones to my DAS and NAS. Moving them as a monothic file, makes life a lot easier
Never, not until we hear from Apple on whether its abandonware, i.e., like iWeb or they'll be working on a new version
neversink
macrumors regular
I used to think like you. I abandoned Aperture and love LR5. Is it perfect, No!! But it is a lot better than Aperture. Moving files around in LR5 is easy and you can keep all your files on external drives but still edit them without those drives turned on if you create smart previews. File structure is simple in LR5 and like libraries, you can create as many Catalogs as you like. Good luck.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
I've used LR, quite extensively, and I created catalogs. Its not the same thing, I always ran into issues when moving last years photos from my laptop to a my NAS (or DAS) and then tried re-opening them afterwards. Its a royal pain.
Where as Aperture, I move the library, and everything works, no fuss no muss.
Given the limited size of my laptop's storage, I create yearly libraries and move the older ones off to my DAS and/or NAS LR has issues with this concept.
Where as Aperture, I move the library, and everything works, no fuss no muss.
Given the limited size of my laptop's storage, I create yearly libraries and move the older ones off to my DAS and/or NAS LR has issues with this concept.
MCAsan
macrumors 601
Every time I shoot I import the files as DNG in to my rMBP's SSD Pictures folder in a subfolder for the year...ie 2014. I then cull and edit them. Then I use LR to drag and drop them to my LaCie 2Big RAID set into the year subfolder of the Pictures folder. I have over 40,000 photos there and never had a problem moving files from the SSD to the the external LaCie RAID set.
The SSD does not have room for long term storage, I don't need to carry around thousands of photos, and I need SSD space for capturing the photos on trips that will last at least 2 weeks. Never had a problem with the LR catalog or libraries. All files are backed up via Time Machine onto a 3TB Time Capsule.
The SSD does not have room for long term storage, I don't need to carry around thousands of photos, and I need SSD space for capturing the photos on trips that will last at least 2 weeks. Never had a problem with the LR catalog or libraries. All files are backed up via Time Machine onto a 3TB Time Capsule.
I always used reference images in aperture and of course do the same thing in LR5. That way I just reference the existing images in LR5 and use the same files in both apps...
If I had the option of transferring my aperture files to LR I would do the transfer and delete Aperture...
CHNO-Chris
macrumors newbie
What makes you think you can't?
Export all your images with metadata and sidecar files (depending on file types) from Aperture and import to LR. I did it and it worked fine. You can put the original Aperture library onto an external drive and open it in iPhoto if you ever need to get back to it for any reason......
Exactly, the files with metadata transfer fine, the edits wont xfer 🙁
I would pay inordinate amounts of money for that capability 🙂
CHNO-Chris
macrumors newbie
I'm pretty certain the edits do come across based on what I am seeing.....quite happy to mail the process I use to you for testing.
The edits are saved in the library not in the raw files. Metadata can be saved to the raw files but that is it.
The adjustments in Aperture and LR are not the same algorithmically and someone with an intimate knowledge of both libraries and how the adjustments work on both systems would have to map those adjustments done in Aperture to LR, then it would only be an approximation.
All of my old libraries are in both systems (slowly readjusting the most important images). My new libraries are in LR only.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Agreed, the only way to convert is to start using LR for all new work and keep Aperture for your legacy stuff. I did this in reverse, LR to Aperture.
garyd
macrumors newbie
You could contact the project managers for Adobe & Apple and ask them to go out for coffee to discuss the possibility of their working together for the greater good of their respective user bases so that it would be possible for us to seamlessly jump back & forth between each application. Be sure to provide detailed ROI predictions, personal bribes, and a check for one hojillion dollars made out to me. 😉
John.B
macrumors 601
Adobe is too busy screwing their existing Lr5 customer base to do anything as helpful as work with the competition for the "good of their user base".
Apple, for their part, has all but raised the white flag when it comes to Aperture...
Kebabselector
macrumors 68030
How is releasing a product for the iPad screwing their user base? - you don't have to use it, nor do you have to subscribe to CC to use LR5.