RIP Aperture

[MaxElmar]

Right on cue: http://www.macrumors.com/2015/02/11/apple-aperture-removed-from-app-store/

Remember, the RAW interpretation engine is built into the OS. Aperture will continue to work (even with new cameras) as long as your OS supports it.

But, it's over - or at least "the long sunset" has truly begun.

 

[fdarnell]

Let the offline archiving of the great programs continue - more TB's of drives to buy and old systems to mothball.

Anyone remember Xoas Tool's Paint Alchemy? still nothing like it that I know of. Keep an old G4 to run it every now and then.

 

[paulfish4570]

i am glad i have it on my Mac pro ...

 

[leica M2 fan]

I always intended to get it but never did. I ended up with LR and am pretty happy with it.

 

[dasuess]

I had been holding out for good news about the new Photos app, but gave up and downloaded the LR trial last week. While I have a lot to learn about LR, I like what I see so far. I have been able to pretty much replicate all my personal/custom configuration from Aperture. I imported all my images into LR when I could not get the Aperture Import plug-in to work. No big deal since it would not have brought over all my PP edits anyway, unless I wanted to create TIF files for the PP'd images (which I didn't). I am going to use LR only during the 30 day trial period and then make my decision. Keeping my Aperure setup, but I am pretty sure I will switch to LR.

 

[danielsterno]

As a Aperture user who was not happy to hear no version 4 coming but not surprised being Apple is going away from that market. Waiting to see what Photo is all about before I look at alternatives though i did do a LR trial and could not warm up to the UI. Any one familiar with Capture One? It works with Silver Efex, all other Nik software. While I do minimal PP it seems that the photo library is decent? I did see on their user forum that its slow?? Thanks Daniel

 

[Tinchohs]

As a Aperture user who was not happy to hear no version 4 coming but not surprised being Apple is going away from that market. Waiting to see what Photo is all about before I look at alternatives though i did do a LR trial and could not warm up to the UI. Any one familiar with Capture One? It works with Silver Efex, all other Nik software. While I do minimal PP it seems that the photo library is decent? I did see on their user forum that its slow?? Thanks Daniel

I've been an Aperture user since version 1.0. I actually got certified as a trainer on it. Last year I made the switch to LR. Hated the UI for a while, and with time and the use of a few shortcuts I've come to feel very comfortable on it. I don't miss Aperture at all.

Thought I'd share this words of encouragement. Enjoy the journey. Martin.

 

[dasuess]

I have been following the TheApertureExpert since I first started using Aperture nearly five years ago. While he was initially upbeat after the Photos announcement (he even renamed his site to ThePhotosExpert), it looks like Joseph has now arrived at the same conclusion as I (and others) have.

https://thephotosexpert.com/tips/2015/2/12/photos-what-it-what-it-isnt-what-it-shall-be#.VN0Kz0JsA6Q

 

[f16sunshine]

I've been an Aperture user since version 1.0. I actually got certified as a trainer on it. Last year I made the switch to LR. Hated the UI for a while, and with time and the use of a few shortcuts I've come to feel very comfortable on it. I don't miss Aperture at all.

Thought I'd share this words of encouragement. Enjoy the journey. Martin.

Good to read that Martin.
I also have been with Aperture from v1.
Although I have tried every version of LR along the way as well as CO7, I still prefer the Aperture workflow.
I know all the quick keys and can work with it very quickly with predictable results.
Hoping to adapt to LR over the fall this year. Until then,... I'm staying with Aperture for my work and building my own library of RAW/Tiff scans files to use externally with LR in the future.

 

[dasuess]

I've been an Aperture user since version 1.0. I actually got certified as a trainer on it. Last year I made the switch to LR. Hated the UI for a while, and with time and the use of a few shortcuts I've come to feel very comfortable on it. I don't miss Aperture at all.

Thought I'd share this words of encouragement. Enjoy the journey. Martin.

While I am by no means a LR expert yet, I am feeling comfortable after only a week. Lots of work ahead re-processing images, but as long as I keep my Aperture setup, I can take my time.

 

[Frankd]

. Any one familiar with Capture One? It works with Silver Efex, all other Nik software. While I do minimal PP it seems that the photo library is decent? I did see on their user forum that its slow?? Thanks Daniel

Yes, I am very familiar with Capture One. It works well. There is much control over raw conversion. I also do minimal PP. I find it much faster than Photoshop with more control over your output. However, I also use Media One in conjunction as a "Digital Asset Management" tool. I find that Capture One alone is not sufficient to keep track of projects and jobs. Sorry I can't compare it to Aperture.

 

[Samouraï]

Does anyone use Adobe Bridge to manage and view photos? And Photoshop to edit? Gosh I'll miss Aperture. Just so many fewer reasons to use a Mac every year. First Final Cut Pro, and now Aperture.

 

[Dwig]

Does anyone use Adobe Bridge to manage and view photos? And Photoshop to edit? ...

I find Bridge, in its more recent CS4 and newer versions, very useful. In fact, I had used it rather intensely from CS onward though I now use LR in addition to PS and Bridge. both for my personal work and in my day job.

Bridge is extremely useful at work (I'm the primary graphic tech for an art photographer) as LR can't handle many of our files. Our print files and master files are mostly PSD with a few PSB files. Many are too large, some as larger as 3-4gb, for LR to work with.

LR is used as a Camera RAW replacement for PS, a tool for adjusting and correcting pictures of client's locations to create mockups of placed artwork, and for "publishing" PDF presentations for prospective clients.

Our master files and printing files are not managed by LR, it can't handle the whole collection so it is useless for handling any of it. We use a simple human-readable folder structure which we can browse and search using either Mac OSX Finder or Bridge. Bridge is faster and provides more info on the found images that Finder, particularly since our "downgrade" from 10.6.x to 10.9.x.

I also find Bridge to be a superb tool for managing multi-file batch operations in PS. Using Bridge to select images and having it feed the images to PS is way better than using PS directly. Bridge is also useful for renaming large groups of files. Producing "lightbox" images and associated thumbnails for the galleries on our web site is a quick and easy task using Bridge to feed files to PS for resizing etc and then using Bridge to rename the thumbnails

 

[lonemantis]

I was an Aperture user for about 5 years until I heard that Apple was going to kill it off. At that point I preemptively switched to Capture One Pro 8 when it went on sale. I don't regret the decision at all - the Raw converter is vastly superior - it really breathed some life into my old Raw files.

The interface is also excellent, and far more intuitive for an ex-Aperture user than Lightroom. All the interface elements are pretty much in the same place - think Aperture on steroids. Tethered shooting works great too!

 

[MaxElmar]

In my workplace, I used just Photoshop, then the Bridge>Photoshop workflow exclusively from 2000 to 2012. At home I switched to a Mac environment and started using Aperture in 2009. I liked Aperture a lot (once I figured out how to use referenced files). My workplace has always been Adobe-centric, so (partially due to my good experience with Aperture) I was curious about Lightroom from the beginning, switching in 2012. Still using Bridge for ingest - still using Photoshop for extreme editing - but 85% of the real work is done in Lightroom.

About the time I switched to LR at work, it was becoming obvious that Aperture was falling behind and last year it was obvious to me that it was dead and I bought a copy of LR for home use. Aperture remains a "bridge" to get my favorites onto my IOS devices.

I would happily stay with LR forever except I think Creative Cloud is a rip-off for home use and I'm sure LR is heading that way. Also I've switched to Fuji X from Nikon for my home work (mostly) and the LR RAW conversions for Fuji are sub-optimal... so I'm back to a JPG workflow - which I do not care for.

Capture One is looking good overall. Iridient developer is looking good for the Fuji files. Photo Mechanic is (as always) looking good for ingest/metadata. But what I really want, is one package that combines the best of all three of these. I should probably admit to myself that's probably not happening. But I remain hopeful....

 

[f16sunshine]

CaptureOne 8 is $300 😱

 

[dasuess]

CaptureOne 8 is $300 😱

When I started looking for an Aperture replacement last week, one of the first things I looked at at was Capture One - too expensive.

A perpetual license for Lightroom 5 is only $149.00.

 

[f16sunshine]

When I started looking for an Aperture replacement last week, one of the first things I looked at at was Capture One - too expensive.

A perpetual license for Lightroom 5 is only $149.00.

It might be too expensive. I tried CO7 and really liked it (not enough to move away from aperture at the time).
I'm going to trial CO8. It's getting excellent reviews. The price is a bit shocking though.
Everytime LR has an update I trial it. It's an ecellent tool but I just don't get on with the UI.

 

[GaryLH]

I heard there as also an express version of c1, has anyone ever tried it?

Gary

 

[Rob-F]

I thought I might try accepting the need to switch to Lightroom. Having had no luck, and having lost a few good photos trying to use Lightroom, I bought Scott Kelby's Lightroom 4 (my version) to see if it would go better. I created a dedicated folder in Pictures, like Kelby says to do. Then I shot one RAW file on my X10 for a practice run. I can't make it work. Nothing happens like it should. I'm at the point of rage and tears over what is supposed to be a hobby, to lower my blood pressure.

How can we put some pressure on Apple, to leave Aperture alone? Why is that too much to ask? A petition, maybe?