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Q: Restoring original

I'm thinking of buying Aperture and importing my iPhoto library into it.

Once I've done this, can I restore the photo within Aperture to its original version as it was when it was originally imported into iPhoto?

Thanks

Steve

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Aug 5, 2013 11:41 AM

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  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Aug 5, 2013 11:58 AM in response to stephenfromreading
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    Aug 5, 2013 11:58 AM in response to stephenfromreading

    Steve, that will depend on the version of iPhoto you are currently using.

     

    Is your current MacOS X version "Mac OS X (10.6.7)", as indicated in your profile signature? You will get the smoothest transit from iPhoto to Aperture with at least iPhoto '11 (9.3 or later) and Aperture 3.3 or later. Then Aperture and iPhoto will share a unified libary format and you can simply use your iPhoto library as Aperture library and switch without problems between Aperture and iPhoto back and forth. You can revert any edits done in iPhoto or build on the edited versions.

     

    If you upgrade from an earlier iPhoto version to the current Aperture 3.4.5, you cannot import the iPhoto library directly - you would have to export the original versions and edited versions from iPhoto and import them separately. So waht are your versions, and could you upgrade to iPhoto 9.4 or later?

     

    See: Aperture 3.3: Using a unified photo library with iPhoto and Aperture

     

    Aperture 3.3: How to use Aperture to merge iPhoto libraries

     

    Regards

    Léonie

  • by stephenfromreading,Helpful

    stephenfromreading stephenfromreading Aug 5, 2013 12:08 PM in response to léonie
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    Aug 5, 2013 12:08 PM in response to léonie

    Thanks Leonie,

    iPhoto is 9.4.3, OS X is 10.8.4, Aperture will be the current version.

    I really wanted, if possible, to use the Aperture library and stop using the original iPhoto library altogether.  So yes, I may want to revert the edits done in iPhoto, but within Aperture.  Hope that's clear.

  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Aug 5, 2013 12:23 PM in response to stephenfromreading
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    Aug 5, 2013 12:23 PM in response to stephenfromreading

    iPhoto is 9.4.3, OS X is 10.8.4, Aperture will be the current version.

    That is perfect then.

     

    If you want to start with a new Aperture library and leave the iPhoto libray untouched, you can import your current iPhoto library into Aperture. Aperture will import the photos from iPhoto exacly as they are in iPhoto, with the original file as master image file and the edits stored in the image versions. You will be able to undo these edits in Aperture or to create additional new versions from the original files or the edited versions. Any additional versions will require not much space, since Aperture will only store the sequence of edits, not the rendered image.

  • by stephenfromreading,

    stephenfromreading stephenfromreading Aug 5, 2013 12:26 PM in response to léonie
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    Aug 5, 2013 12:26 PM in response to léonie

    Appreciate your help - thanks so much. Vielen danke!

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Aug 5, 2013 1:41 PM in response to stephenfromreading
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    Aug 5, 2013 1:41 PM in response to stephenfromreading

    Gern geschehen!