Apple Aperture Users......

As an Aperture user myself, what are most of you using currently?
I do have a Disc Copy of Lightroom 6. The reason I bought it is that I could buy it and not pay "Ransome" from now to eternity. However that may run is course.
There are some nice features but the structure is a bit complicated.
What other options have you tried and what is the smoothest transition?
Thanks.

Nick5 wrote in post #18150888
As an Aperture user myself, what are most of you using currently?
I do have a Disc Copy of Lightroom 6. The reason I bought it is that I could buy it and not pay "Ransome" from now to eternity. However that may run is course.
There are some nice features but the structure is a bit complicated.
What other options have you tried and what is the smoothest transition?
Thanks.

Complicated; LR is the easiest piece of software I've ever used.

Started of with Capture One but switched to LR because of the cataloguing features.
Also tried DxO but preferred LR
Tried Aperture when I got a mac but preferred LR.

I'm using the Adobe CC Subcription and have been very happy with it. I don't see how anyone could say LR is easier to use than Aperture! I loved Aperture, but when I upgraded the OS last year and they cancelled it I switched to Adobe. If you use Miller's Lab they are offering 20% of on the monthly subscription rate, brings it down to $7.99.

Nick5 wrote in post #18150888
The reason I bought it is that I could buy it and not pay "Ransome" from now to eternity. However that may run is course.

The $10/month is for Lightroom and Photoshop. I use Lightroom 99% of the time but there have been the few times I was glad I had Photoshop.
The $10/month is less than 2 cups of coffee from Starbucks.
I think of the cost of the subscription almost like any monthly utility (phone, cable, gas, electric, etc).

I recently switched from Aperture to Lightroom CC. IIt's only a matter of time until Aperture will no longer work with the latest OS so might as well make the switch. Moving over to Lightroom was straight forward, there are a number of good tutuorials on youtube showing how to make the migration relatively painless. Other then loosing all my RAW adjustments (I did move over the high quality jpegs so adjusting old pictures while work is pretty easy) I like the power of Lightroom much more then Aperture.

DGStinner wrote in post #18151093
The $10/month is for Lightroom and Photoshop. I use Lightroom 99% of the time but there have been the few times I was glad I had Photoshop.
The $10/month is less than 2 cups of coffee from Starbucks.
I think of the cost of the subscription almost like any monthly utility (phone, cable, gas, electric, etc).

Yeah, it's easy to cover this by adding a couple dollars to your shoot fees. Plus, if you open an acct with Miller's Lab you can get it for $7.99/mo for a year, even if you don't use Miller's.

Still using Aperture, it does everything I need so why change.

Yes there "may" come a time when a change is forced upon us, but as a Mavericks and Aperture user I'm happy at the moment.

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Nick5 wrote in post #18150888
Apple Aperture Users......what are most of you using currently?

I assume that you are addressing this question to former Aperture users, as Aperture users would still be using Aperture, right?

Anyway, I am a former Aperture user, and I now use Apple's program, "Photos" as my image editing and file management workhorse. I greatly preferred iPhoto's slideshow defaults, but otherwise Photos out-performs iPhoto, and I consider it an upgrade.

I never really could get comfortable with Aperture because when I would click on its icon, it would take, like, 20 or 30 seconds just for the program to open . . . I simply don't have that kind of patience. iPhoto and Photos opens fully in about 2 or 3 seconds - that's more my speed.

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I jumped to Lr from Aperture long before Apple killed it. There were a couple times Aperture completely messed up my entire library of photos. The recovery caused considerable anxiety, though I was able both times to recover using backups (and a bit of Unix magic at the terminal.) Once I went to Lr, I didn't look back, except when they went to CC. I thought about it, and the $10/mo is trivial. I too use Lr almost all of the time, but on those rare occasions when I need Ps, it is great.

I have no regret moving to Lr. I shoot roughly 20K photos/yr. Lr works.

mathogre wrote in post #18151900
I jumped to Lr from Aperture long before Apple killed it. There were a couple times Aperture completely messed up my entire library of photos. The recovery caused considerable anxiety, though I was able both times to recover using backups (and a bit of Unix magic at the terminal.) Once I went to Lr, I didn't look back, except when they went to CC. I thought about it, and the $10/mo is trivial. I too use Lr almost all of the time, but on those rare occasions when I need Ps, it is great.

I have no regret moving to Lr. I shoot roughly 20K photos/yr. Lr works.

Were you by any chance using the catalogue mode where Aperture actually stored all of the image files embedded within the catalogue file? I forget the correct name for it, or were you using a referenced catalogue the same as LR uses? I have noticed that Photos still uses that model by default, and I'm not sure if Photos allows a referenced model. It always struck me as a less than clever way to store the image files. Yes you are still prone to losing data if a disk fails, or even a directory file, but adding another point of failure where corrupting a single file could lose your entire image collection seems like madness.

Alan

BigAl007 wrote in post #18152227
Were you by any chance using the catalogue mode where Aperture actually stored all of the image files embedded within the catalogue file? I forget the correct name for it, or were you using a referenced catalogue the same as LR uses? I have noticed that Photos still uses that model by default, and I'm not sure if Photos allows a referenced model. It always struck me as a less than clever way to store the image files. Yes you are still prone to losing data if a disk fails, or even a directory file, but adding another point of failure where corrupting a single file could lose your entire image collection seems like madness.

Alan

I was using the referenced catalog. When this first happened, I knew I wouldn't lose my original photos, but all of the modifications, all of the touch-ups would be gone.

I'm a longtime Aperture user that has been slowly converting over to Capture One Pro. C1P offers so much more than Aperture did, but I'm still learning.

Cheers,
Bryan

The problem I have with Apple Photos is its metadata/copyright is non-existence. Aperture has a copyright built into it. I asked Apple over a year ago to add the copyright feature into Photos but so far they have not. I'm not a professional photog BUT I had one of my photos taken and used for a pirated album cover and I emailed the person to stop and they did. So, copyright metadata should be important to everyone.