PSA: Apple Print Products Store Dropping Support for iPhoto and Aperture on March 31

I still love Aperture, and will use it as long as I can. Maybe even if it means being stuck on an outdated version of OS X in the future.
 
I am sure Apple did not print the books themselves. Does anyone know what company they contracted to do it? Perhaps we can export a PDF from Aperture and upload it to whoever that was directly?

I am four books into what would have been a 10 book series. I would much prefer for all of the books to be of the same quality, style, etc.
 
Photos is a great replacement for iPhoto, sure it demands a new paradigm for organising albums, but once you get you head around it, it works.

Photos is not a good replacement for Aperture, it is a real shame that Apple dropped support this App. In the great scheme of things such a small proportion of iPhone/Mac users used Aperture that it was no longer necessary to support further development.

Slowly stripping it of its existing functionality, however, is downright shameful.
 
+1 - Really love Aperture. It's just really nice to work with.
I have tried a couple of alternatives. I have Lightroom through my adobe subscription anyway but I just cannot warm to it.
Aperture always wins, by a mile.
 
ForkHandles said:
Photos is a great replacement for iPhoto, sure it demands a new paradigm for organising albums, but once you get you head around it, it works.
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The problem is, it's in many ways inferior to iPhoto. In my opinion:

Photos:
+Better performance
+Better editing tools
+Extensions (although clumsy)

iPhoto:
+Map view
+Hold shift to see unedited picutre (or was it alt?)
+Gesture to rotate pictures
+More slideshows which are more customizable
+E-mail picture cards
+Stars
+Slightly better batch editing tools

Some of the stuff I mentioned was just gimmick (although fun from time to time). Other stuff was very useful (rotation gesture, shift to view unedited picture). All in all, it wouldn't take much effort to implement all this stuff in Photos. Since Apple didn't bother, I guess they don't care. I believe that new software should be at least on par with the old one. If it's partly better and partly worse, why even switch?

PS.: Just a tip - if you install Affinity, Photos extensions work even after trial period expires.
 
Merode said:
The problem is, it's in many ways inferior to iPhoto. In my opinion:

Photos:
+Better performance
+Better editing tools
+Extensions (although clumsy)

iPhoto:
+Map view
+Hold shift to see unedited picutre (or was it alt?)
+Gesture to rotate pictures
+More slideshows which are more customizable
+E-mail picture cards
+Stars
+Slightly better batch editing tools

Some of the stuff I mentioned was just gimmick (although fun from time to time). Other stuff was very useful (rotation gesture, shift to view unedited picture). All in all, it wouldn't take much effort to implement all this stuff in Photos. Since Apple didn't bother, I guess they don't care. I believe that new software should be at least on par with the old one. If it's partly better and partly worse, why even switch?

PS.: Just a tip - if you install Affinity, Photos extensions work even after trial period expires.
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I am with you on the missing features. There is a map view in Colkections but you must still know the year in which the photo was taken.
The missing gesture to rotate still catches me out.
 
Merode said:
The problem is, it's in many ways inferior to iPhoto. In my opinion:

Photos:
+Better performance
+Better editing tools
+Extensions (although clumsy)

iPhoto:
+Map view
+Hold shift to see unedited picutre (or was it alt?)
+Gesture to rotate pictures
+More slideshows which are more customizable
+E-mail picture cards
+Stars
+Slightly better batch editing tools

Some of the stuff I mentioned was just gimmick (although fun from time to time). Other stuff was very useful (rotation gesture, shift to view unedited picture). All in all, it wouldn't take much effort to implement all this stuff in Photos. Since Apple didn't bother, I guess they don't care. I believe that new software should be at least on par with the old one. If it's partly better and partly worse, why even switch?

PS.: Just a tip - if you install Affinity, Photos extensions work even after trial period expires.
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I think it's the 'M' key now (to view original version).
 
MacDarcy said:
I miss the old iTunes where it would play psychedelic graphics on the screen of your computer that responded to the beats of the song you were playing. That was so cool, and made a nice background as the music played.
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You could try the G-Force plugin by Soundspectrum...
 
My iMac runs iPhoto and will continue to do so until it's no longer possible.

On my MacBook Pro I use the new Photos app. I hate the UI (always have), but it's nice to have all my iPhone and iPad photos sync directly to the laptop.
 
yvr said:
[doublepost=1458191834][/doublepost]Or, you could go to the File menu and select "create calendar," "create card," "create book," "order prints." ;)
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Yeah, like I said, knowing it exists made me search for it harder. I had assumed it had all been removed in the Great Simplifications.
 
Canubis said:
Boy, this seriously sucks! Aperture had one of the best photo book editors. Possible to use templates and at the same time being able to move everything around freely. It could have used an update here and there but it was still better than any other software and a lot less work than completely doing it from scratch in Photoshop or InDesign…
So now I can still use its editor but not buy the book in the end anymore. Is it possible to export the books as PDF and print them somewhere else?

Would it really kill Apple to keep this damn web server script running to receive a PDF and payment data from Aperture?!
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Just "up"grade to Photos man, you don't need all those confusing features found in Aperture!
Trust me, I know what's best for you!

Kind Regards
-Tim
 
Canubis said:
So now I can still use its editor but not buy the book in the end anymore. Is it possible to export the books as PDF and print them somewhere else?

Would it really kill Apple to keep this damn web server script running to receive a PDF and payment data from Aperture?!
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I am not sure about Aperture but in iPhoto exporting to PDF is an option. I do this to get a copy of my photo book on an iPad so I can show it when I do not have the actual book with me.
 
This is what I simply don't get about Apple. Why drop support for things they worked so hard to build. Classic environment, print services, whatever else a dozen other people can think of. Near as I can tell in the effort to streamline they don't even keep one department for forsaken products for them to focus on. Even if it is not a revenue or profit center, it could be a customer service and loyalty center.
 
The end of an era. Sad to see Aperture go but I have since move on to Lightroom. Too bad really, because I liked Aperture but Lightroom has other perks that have offset the learning curve.
 
MacDarcy said:
I miss the old iTunes where it would play psychedelic graphics on the screen of your computer that responded to the beats of the song you were playing. That was so cool, and made a nice background as the music played.
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It still does that! But the options are more limited (of course).
 
mainstreetmark said:
Yeah, like I said, knowing it exists made me search for it harder. I had assumed it had all been removed in the Great Simplifications.
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Don't get how you could miss that. The '+' is universally used to add or create something. Pretty simple to me.
mainstreetmark said:
I was literally not aware this stuff made it into Photos, despite looking. It's in none of the menus. I went to vistaprint last week to get prints made. :(

It turns out, I was supposed to hit the "+" button on photos, which I assumed meant "add to album" or some other dingbat feature. How is "+" meant to convey "Create a Photo Album project". I never would have clicked that had this article not informed me that the feature was, indeed, still in Photos somewhere. I should have spent a few more minutes looking around. I guess I prefer the obviousness of iPhoto.

Discoverability does not mean "keep clicking buttons to see what they do".
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MacRumors said:



iPhoto and Aperture were discontinued in the spring of 2015 when Photos for OS X launched as part of OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, but the software continues to be used by many Mac owners who previously had it installed on their machines.

Though Aperture and iPhoto are not available in the Mac App Store and are no longer being updated, the software has remained functional with OS X Yosemite and OS X El Capitan. As of March 31, however, one feature will be disappearing -- the ability to order photo books, prints, and other content created within the two apps. Starting on that date, the Apple Print Products Store will no longer support Aperture or iPhoto.

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As noted by a MacRumors tipster and the Apple Support forums, iPhoto and Aperture are now notifying customers who order books or prints about the imminent discontinuation of the feature. Apple employees have also been letting customers know that the printing ability will no longer be available, but Apple doesn't appear to have made an official support document announcing the change.

Photo books, cards, calendars, prints, and more can be created using the Photos for OS X app, which replaced both Aperture and iPhoto.

(Thanks, Mark!)

Article Link: PSA: Apple Print Products Store Dropping Support for iPhoto and Aperture on March 31
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The new Photos cannot make a map to show destinations like iPhotos could. This is disgrace.
 
admwright said:
I am not sure about Aperture but in iPhoto exporting to PDF is an option. I do this to get a copy of my photo book on an iPad so I can show it when I do not have the actual book with me.
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Need to check, if that's possible it's 1 step. Then I still need to find a good printing service for books that either directly accepts my PDF from Aperture or find some easy workflow to get it work with other photo book apps. But the ones I know and tried out so far made me want to throw myself out of the window…
 
Photos is a very poor replacement for iPhoto and Aperture. I own both and Photos is like a toy, designed for people who have very few photos and want to share them via social media. Library management, file management and photo management has been sacrificed for a simple interface. You can't rate photos, it stores it all online (with very little ability to manage a complex series of libraries) and efficient, routine work flows for people who take a lot of photos are not possible. Announcing an end to the ability to print projects is another blow. Printing an iPhoto book is actually pretty simple - it simply makes a PDF and ships it off to a printer. Maybe someone else will print these books. I am still holding out hope that the upgrade of Photos that is coming will make the program useful to folks who actually take more photos than a few selfies on their iPhone.
 
Yikes... my wife hates the new Photos app. She found the iPhoto app a little more easy to understand. I think Apple have forgotten their original mantra back in the Jobs era that you should just be able to pick up their product and know how to use it. iTunes and Photos don't give that experience anymore.
 
Never liked iPhoto, and i dint trust it photos disappeared and i now always use my own DAM to organise my photos. Aperture was great but its features started to lag (i know plugins were available) moved to LR which i did not like but with perseverance i have finally got used to it, with the way Apple are behaving I'm glad i did every iteration of Apple software seems to get less and less intuitive and with microscopic icons and type face.
 
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