Do you want Apple to continue developing Aperture?

[LV426]

LR has many more in-depth editing features such as lens correction profiles.

Yosemite will likely be doing this kind of thing out of the box.

Any number of photo apps will be able to take leverage from what the OS provides. As it should be. Camera RAW profiles will continue to be provided at the OS level, where it should be. Not in a 3rd party app.

 

[maflynn]

Camera RAW profiles will continue to be provided at the OS level, where it should be. Not in a 3rd party app.

Unless the third party app does a better job

I've been pleased with OS X raw rendering, and I don't expect the quality to change much but there are better products out there.

 

[LV426]

Unless the third party app does a better job

I've been pleased with OS X raw rendering, and I don't expect the quality to change much but there are better products out there.

If you are able to do so, check out the video Advances in Core Image on this page. You will see that Yosemite does some great new stuff out of the box for processing Raw images. Want that lens correction feature that never made it to Aperture? Already there. Want high performance noise reduction? Already there.

Most of the video is concerned with iOS8 (which incidentally has some new great image processing APIs, and is well worth a look), but there is a section on RAW adjustment in Yosemite about half an hour in. Stunning performance and features. With the capability for plugging your favourite third party filter (not an app, although an app may provide its own filter) in the processing chain.

 

[MCAsan]

Want that lens correction feature that never made it to Aperture? Already there.

Clarification. Aperture already has lens correction in it. The key is that my M43 passes the lens correction data to Aperture and LR in the raw file. So you will not see tables of M43 cameras and lens in Aperture or LR. The problem for the 35mm crowd is that their makers are using proprietary raw formats and are not passing the lens correction data in the raw file. To solve that huge problem caused by the camera companies, Adobe has to build and maintain lens correction tables. Apple never bothered to go to that step in Aperture or iPhoto.

Suggestion: If you are a 35mm user, ask your vendor to step up their game and put lens correction data in their raw files.

 

[notrack]

I buy the workflow and maybe the keywords but editing - that's a stretch. LR has many more in-depth editing features such as lens correction profiles. I have to give the edge to LR on that facet. Don't get me wrong, Aperture was fine for my editing needs once I loaded in some plugins but LR is definitely superior in the editing category. Adobe kept improving and adding features, apple had not.

I tried to emphase that this applies to my personal needs/usecase. I neither use lense correction nor noise reduction where Aperture indeed doesn't shine. No wonky plugin stuff. But I use brushes frequently, for example selective highlight or shadow sharpening in different strengths or midtone contrast/color etc.. Also skin smoothing I find pretty quick and easy. Generally editing feels more fluent in Aperture. You probably use different things which makes LR the better app for you.

No problem letting Aperture go if there is a better alternative. As long there is none, it makes sense to keep things as they are. We will see whether Photos will be a working alternative. There is enough time to thorouhly plan the switch to whatever App.

 

[tgara]

I've always used Aperture, and it will continue to work for me for the foreseeable future. For me, I'm not making any hasty decisions. I want to see exactly what the new Photos app can do before I switch to anything new. I am guardedly encouraged because the latest info on Photos is that it will include pro features and 3rd party plugin capability. We will see.....

 

[Razeus]

I've always used Aperture, and it will continue to work for me for the foreseeable future. For me, I'm not making any hasty decisions. I want to see exactly what the new Photos app can do before I switch to anything new. I am guardedly encouraged because the latest info on Photos is that it will include pro features and 3rd party plugin capability. We will see.....

This. You've got at least one more OS release to figure things out. Hopefully the Photos app will be more mature by OS X 10.11.

 

[flynz4]

I've always used Aperture, and it will continue to work for me for the foreseeable future. For me, I'm not making any hasty decisions. I want to see exactly what the new Photos app can do before I switch to anything new. I am guardedly encouraged because the latest info on Photos is that it will include pro features and 3rd party plugin capability. We will see.....

Likewise here:

I own both Aperture and LR, but I greatly prefer Aperture. I use them in conjunction with CS6 & Nik.

If photos becomes a total bust... then of course I will migrate to LR. I'll lose my non-destructive image edits... but for me, that is a very small loss since most of my selects have been round-tripped to Nik (or CS6), and hence have new masters with all the destructive edits baked in.

I have much more investment (100X) in organization, key wording, etc... and all of that should be transferable to LR or whatever DAM I end up with.

My hope is that Photos becomes a really great program within the timeframe that I need to move from Aperture. That is at least 18 months from now given Apples announcement.

So... bottom line: My ideal situation will be that Photos does everything I need and also does new things that no existing DAM provides. If so, my transition is trivial and I have benefited by this change in Apple's direction. However, if not, then I will switch to LR when necessary... and the transition complexity will be no harder 18 months from now than it is today. So... for now, I just wait and continue to enjoy Aperture.

/Jim

 

[steve.tmq]

If you like the program you have.

If you like the program you have and it works for you and you don't need or want new fetchers. Dose it matter if it's not continually changing? I do all my work on a 2006 macbook pro with Aperture 2. It works well for me and dose what I want it to do. The only resion I will ever need/want to change is if my macbook fails and I have to get a new computer and if that computers is a Apple then I may not be able to downgrade to OS/X 10.6 and Aperture 2 and that will be a problem.

The only other problem that will happen is when Apple stop providing there print products for Aperture. I might have to export my photos on the old machine and import them onto the next machine to get them into a printed book. Apples printed photo books are grate.