Resurrecting a dead thread after a year to tell him he‘s wrong shows a lot of commitment.
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Apple Says Aperture Won't Run in Future macOS Versions After Mojave
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You are right Aperture was a big deal when it was new.
But the bigger problem is that Apple abandoned a professional app. What this says is that Apple can abandon ANY pro app so if you depend on one of then you always need to keep looking for a bail-out plan just in case Apple drops the app you use. Logic and Final Cut X could be dropped tomorrow for all we know.
Maybe Apple abandons the Mac Pro and Final Cut Pro? With the move to ARM it may be that the Mac Pro goes away?
Well, you're talking to users who still wish for Apple to resurrect a certain piece of software that's been dead for six years so…
(I'm one of them!)
I have never used it, I was always an Adobe user, but I know it was what Apple thought was a pro app. 🤷🏻♂️
I remember that both Aperture and Lightroom appeared on the scene around the same time....I did a trial of Lightroom and didn't care much for it, whereas I almost immediately liked Aperture and made the decision to stick with it, which I did for many years. Alas, some good things don't last forever and I reluctantly said goodbye to Aperture after trying various software editing programs and deciding on Luminar 3. Last year, when I made a change in my photo gear, after I had the new camera with its significantly higher resolution and larger image files in hand, I again looked around for a robust, sophisticated all-around editing program and this time found DXO Photolab 3, which I am still using now and very much liking, as it seems intuitive to me and helps me achieve the results I want.
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No it doesn't. I've never understood why it's a problem to comment on an old thread. If it has the info/dialogue that is pertinent to you what's the problem?
So, everybody knows about Retroactive by now, right? (Yes, Aperture runs on 10.15, whether Apple wants it to or not. There's experimental support for it on 11 already too.)
Thanks for the likes for my post on DAM history. Rereading this it occurs to me to share the fate of iView Media Pro. iView Media Pro was truly independent software built in the UK and quite brilliant as a photo rater and photo browser within its limitations (fairly small catalogues, thousands of images, not tens of thousands). Microsoft saw the competition between Apple and Adobe for a DAM and promptly bought out iView Media Pro in June 2006. Microsoft released two very buggy versions (photos would flash and blink when moving between photos, unusable) called Expression Media. In 2010 Microsoft dropped Expression Media from their software suites and sold it off to Phase One. Phase One did release a new version but never really got the magic back which the original had (fast, reliable, intuitive, headache-free) and stopped development in 2016 and sales in 2018.
The way Phase One took people's money for software which they knew was EOL says a lot about that company. Although PhaseOne is a small European medium format camera and software development company (Denmark), the games they play around sales (discontinuing software without recourse, no discounts on upgrades, very steep prices on upgrades, encouraging subscription) are almost as bad as Adobe or Microsoft. I've had a much better experience (in terms of photo development and updates) with DxO Photolab (Elite edition with ViewPoint and FilmPack) than any of the others. Noise reduction is the best of all the RAW developers out there.
Here's a detailed workflow for working with DxO Photolab which might help other former Aperture photographers.
The best cataloguing software outside of Adobe Lightroom is NeoFinder, German developer Norbert M. Doerner's quirky CDfinder all grown up. NeoFinder now includes image thumbnails up to 4096 pixels (512px is a reasonable compromise for size, speed and usability) and is quite fast at cataloguing images. It includes an extremely powerful and fast and very granular search.
It's not quite as intuitive as Lightroom's browse search by metadata but it's a whole lot faster to browse results.
The way Phase One took people's money for software which they knew was EOL says a lot about that company. Although PhaseOne is a small European medium format camera and software development company (Denmark), the games they play around sales (discontinuing software without recourse, no discounts on upgrades, very steep prices on upgrades, encouraging subscription) are almost as bad as Adobe or Microsoft. I've had a much better experience (in terms of photo development and updates) with DxO Photolab (Elite edition with ViewPoint and FilmPack) than any of the others. Noise reduction is the best of all the RAW developers out there.
Here's a detailed workflow for working with DxO Photolab which might help other former Aperture photographers.
The best cataloguing software outside of Adobe Lightroom is NeoFinder, German developer Norbert M. Doerner's quirky CDfinder all grown up. NeoFinder now includes image thumbnails up to 4096 pixels (512px is a reasonable compromise for size, speed and usability) and is quite fast at cataloguing images. It includes an extremely powerful and fast and very granular search.
It's not quite as intuitive as Lightroom's browse search by metadata but it's a whole lot faster to browse results.
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Last year in my search to find something to replace Aperture, after trying several programs and not really liking them, I finally discovered DXO Photolab 3 and am very, very pleased with it.
No I didn't know about Retroactive. Looks like very powerful magic. I've had some issues running FCP7 on anything after Snow Leopard and look forward to trying out Retroactive. In terms of Aperture, Apple left it broken in the final version (v2.x was the most pro version of the Aperture, 3.x was a step backwards and towards iPhoto). The issue is that XMP and IPTC data syncs very badly. After reading through this thread, I thought about using Aperture as a DAM front end for rating, labelling and adding IPTC data. Apple made sure we can't even do that.
Apple's handling of pro apps and machines is so unreliable that at this point I'm looking at third party applications as much as possible. I still have occasional professional use for FCPX and Numbers. But I wouldn't be betting my livelihood on Apple applications again.
