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Apple Notifying Aperture Users of Impending Removal From Mac App Store

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Apple has sent an email to Aperture customers this afternoon as a reminder about the impending removal of the professional photo editing software from the Mac App Store. The email confirms that Aperture will be removed from the Mac App Store upon the release of Photos for OS X as we initially reported last month.
"When Photos for OS X launches this spring, Aperture will no longer be available for purchase from the Mac App Store. You can continue to use Aperture on OS X Yosemite, but you will not be able to buy additional copies of the app. 

You can migrate your Aperture library to Photos for OS X, including your photos, adjustments, albums, and keywords. After migrating, your Aperture library remains intact. However, Aperture and Photos do not share a unified library, so any changes made after the migration will not be shared between the apps."
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Aperture users will be able to continue using the software on OS X Yosemite following its discontinuation, although the app will no longer be available for purchase on the Mac App Store and new feature updates are not planned. Aperture users can migrate their photo libraries to Photos for OS X, including photos, adjustments, albums and keywords.

Photos for OS X will be available this spring for OS X Yosemite.

Article Link: Apple Notifying Aperture Users of Impending Removal From Mac App Store
 
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If I purchased it will I still be able to download it on a new (or restored) mac in the future?
 
akm3 said:
If I purchased it will I still be able to download it on a new (or restored) mac in the future?
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I would assume so. I have purchased several now discontinued apps in the past and they all are still available under "Purchased" for me, however no longer developed or updated. I don't see why they would make this one different? Unless maybe official Apple software works differently than discontinued software from other developers.

Edit: Sad to see Aperture go. I really love it. Photos feels promising now that I've been working with it for a while but I am already missing a few things from Aperture. Not enough to pay Adobe, but hoping Photos gets developed further or even some add ons come out eventually that we can buy.
 
Maybe Apple is making a big deal because you're gonna pull a Final Cut Pro X and reveal Aperture X which has been fully rewritten is the best photo management/editing software this side of the galaxy jk I'm crying.
 
Very upset because Photos eliminates crucial Aperture features like "Flagged" which I use constantly. Also upset because last year, once the writing was on the wall, I made a concerted effort to use and learn Lightroom, and I just did not like it for various reasons, and I didn't get to be remotely as fast I was in Aperture.

Screwed.
 
Ted13 said:
Very upset because Photos eliminates crucial Aperture features like "Flagged" which I use constantly. Also upset because last year, once the writing was on the wall, I made a concerted effort to use and learn Lightroom, and I just did not like it for various reasons, and I didn't get to be remotely as fast I was in Aperture.

Screwed.
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I noticed that as well. I've been getting around it with the "heart" thing, but I hope that this is one of the things they release along the way. I really can't stand Lightroom (or Adobe), it pales in comparison to Aperture for how I work and was very worried that Photos wouldn't be enough. So far, it's not enough but I hope it gets there.
 
akm3 said:
If I purchased it will I still be able to download it on a new (or restored) mac in the future?
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Probably won't work in 10.11 which is... argh... just a few months away.
 
apple.com/feedback ...

left feedback at both the Aperture and OS X sections...

We have a better chance of our thoughts being seen there than most anywhere else.



jwd
 
I'm not sad to see it go because it was SO FAR BEHIND what it should have been, I just want to make sure that if my mac burns in a fire or something, I can get a new mac, install aperture, and open old aperture libraries/vaults
 
akm3 said:
I'm not sad to see it go because it was SO FAR BEHIND what it should have been, I just want to make sure that if my mac burns in a fire or something, I can get a new mac, install aperture, and open old aperture libraries/vaults
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I just talked to Apple via chat, because I was curious as well. They confirmed what I said. It will be like any other app. Once discontinued, you can still download it, but cannot buy additional copies. They also said they will keep it functional through Yosemite's life cycle but it won't be updated for future versions of OS X. Still available and may or may not work down the road with whatever follows Yosemite, but it will keep working with Yosemite and you can still download it from the Apple ID you purchased it with prior to it's discontinuation.
 
I'm guessing (and hoping) that Apple add more aperture features in the future, like they did with FCP X. FCP X is now fully featured and better than the competition. Fingers crossed.
 
Ted13 said:
Very upset because Photos eliminates crucial Aperture features like "Flagged" which I use constantly. Also upset because last year, once the writing was on the wall, I made a concerted effort to use and learn Lightroom, and I just did not like it for various reasons, and I didn't get to be remotely as fast I was in Aperture.

Screwed.
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You could use the favorite functionality instead, or assign a specific keyword to the photos you want to flag.
 
The biggest flaw in Photos is that it's all or nothing when it comes to putting your photos on iCloud.

I'd rather have a subset of my photos in iCloud, and keep the rest archived on my computer and not using up iCloud space.

It just shows that Apple seems to be doing this to sell iCloud subscriptions, and not to improve the user experience.
 
"You can migrate your Aperture library to Photos for OS X, including your photos, adjustments, albums, and keywords."

It was my understanding that most adjustments would be lost. Curves for example don't exist in photos, so how could they be retained?
 
zorinlynx said:
The biggest flaw in Photos is that it's all or nothing when it comes to putting your photos on iCloud.

I'd rather have a subset of my photos in iCloud, and keep the rest archived on my computer and not using up iCloud space.

It just shows that Apple seems to be doing this to sell iCloud subscriptions, and not to improve the user experience.
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You can actually keep multiple libraries in OS X Photos! Hold the option key while starting the application, and it will ask you which library to use (or create a new one). Only the 'system' library will be attached to iCloud (if you choose to), and I'm personally keeping my 500GB+ Aperture library as a separate, local Photos library.
 
zorinlynx said:
I'd rather have a subset of my photos in iCloud, and keep the rest archived on my computer and not using up iCloud space.
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Yep, I was hoping I could keep my professional work off the cloud, (multi terabytes, so no real practical way to do it even if I wanted) and my personal/Iphone/iPad stuff synced via the cloud.

I guess i'll have to set up two separate libraries.

As for Aperture, I opted for lightroom when they were both first available, as Aperture offered no (simple) way to rename files, but I enjoyed many of Apertures tools for working on single images.
 
Anyone know how to migrate aperture library after the fact? I chose not to do this and it sync all my iCloud photos from iPhone to my MacBook. . Now I want to put in some projects from aperture to iCloud. How do I do this? Will changing the iCloud library to the aperture one delete all old stuff from cloud or will it pull down everything again to the new one duplicating all my Icloud photos?

Also what happens if I use another computer and sync its aperture of iPhoto library the first time I run photos? Will it sync everything both ways ?
 
Hard to forgive them for this. Musicians and movie makers get awesome apps and we get half-baked experimentation. I get that eventually everything will be in the cloud, and photos was the next thing after they figured out documents. What I don't get is why they kayboshed the whole thing for professionals *before* the cloud options were anywhere near as good as what we already have.
 
zorinlynx said:
The biggest flaw in Photos is that it's all or nothing when it comes to putting your photos on iCloud.

I'd rather have a subset of my photos in iCloud, and keep the rest archived on my computer and not using up iCloud space.

It just shows that Apple seems to be doing this to sell iCloud subscriptions, and not to improve the user experience.
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You can - like with iTunes, you can hold down the option key when you open it and create or open different libraries. Only the "system library" allows you to sync with iCloud, the others don't. Just move photos that you don't want in iCloud to a different library.

Edit: sorry, should've continued reading - other people got there first!
 
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zorinlynx said:
The biggest flaw in Photos is that it's all or nothing when it comes to putting your photos on iCloud.

I'd rather have a subset of my photos in iCloud, and keep the rest archived on my computer and not using up iCloud space.

It just shows that Apple seems to be doing this to sell iCloud subscriptions, and not to improve the user experience.
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So none then?

Wow. That's pretty awful. After a Numbers file in iCloud just randomly went corropt on me, I don't want to use iCloud for primary file storage at-all. It would be best if there was a screen-resolution copy on iCloud but the primary photo library was still local.
 
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