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Sep 16, 2015 12:56 PM in response to rodphotoby Brian O'Reilly,Rodphoto
I applaud your wishes - but I wouldn't hold out too much hope on this front
Apple does tend to look forward and seldom looks in the rear view mirror
Brian
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Sep 17, 2015 3:31 AM in response to rodphotoby RobbieMeister,To my mind I only give up on it if I stop using it. It's working fine at the moment so, as long as it does, I'll keep using it. I may have to stay with Yosemite but with hindsight I wish I had stayed with the last one.
And if Apple continue to add features I don't want and cant remove I'll probably go back to PC's and Sony for phones.
R
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Sep 17, 2015 2:33 PM in response to rodphotoby Badunit,It is the best, even in its death throes. I do not understand why Apple dropped it in favor of their worse-than-iPhoto, consumer-based Photos app. I can only hope that some reasonable features will be added to the Photos app to make it at least usable but I doubt it will ever surpass iPhoto in adjustments.
The problem with continuing to use a sunsetted app is that at some point in the future it will cease to work unless you keep the rest of your computer in the past as well. No OS upgrades for sure. Even a periodic update (printer drivers, security update, who knows) might be enough to kill it. And then you are stuck.
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Sep 18, 2015 5:24 PM in response to rodphotoby atomicelroy,Unfortunately Apple is making more household apps then professional ones. Aperture is/was a great program and I too will use it as long as it lasts.
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Sep 18, 2015 6:16 PM in response to rodphotoby Gerald Gifford,I'm lamenting the loss of Aperture too.
After some research I have decided to move to Lightroom for image editing. Lightroom has some very powerful (in my estimation) editing tools, but its organizational qualities really suck compared to Aperture. Though editing is not nearly as easy, intuitive, and straight forward as Aperture (again my opinion).
I keep hoping some enterprising individual(s) will acquire the rights to Aperture and continue to develop the best organizational software ever! Dare I dream?
Oh, well!
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Sep 19, 2015 9:08 AM in response to atomicelroyby Ziatron,Unfortunately Apple is making more household apps then professional ones. Aperture is/was a great program and I too will use it as long as it lasts.
Agree completely. I would be happy to switch to something different if there was something better. There is not.
My work requires that keywords be below the thumbnails. The only two programs that do this are Aperture and Lyn.
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Sep 20, 2015 3:27 PM in response to Ziatronby Acetone.,The end of apeture means the the end of Apple for me personally, as I suspect that I will not now be buying a new mac computer in the furture, if a new OS will not run apeture and I can't install mavericks then i see no point in buying a mac, and wiil go back to a windows based machine.
A case of Apple cutting thier nose off to spite thier face, but when your selling millions of phones who gaves a **** about desktop computing.
I will have a small wager that Apeture 4 is released as an iPad Pro app at some point.
As for now it's Apeture and Mavericks on a 2009 iMac
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Sep 22, 2015 10:56 AM in response to rodphotoby John basso 2,Hello There .
Apple's decision to no longer support Aperture has caused a lot of headaches and additional cost to the users of this really good software.I have Light Room 6, which I purchased as an alone standing version.It's OK ,but lacks the simplicity of Aperture.Also LR6 ,won't give you the updates like the new haze filter for free .You only can get this via their subscription program. Apples new PHOTO app is perhaps still in its infancy,it might improve ,we will have to wait and see.However ,in the App store you can purchase the new App called; AFFINITY PHOTO. I bought it at their introduction price.It works like Photo Shop.,Layers , etc.
It has perspective control and many more amazing features.It's DAM is not up to standard as yet,but I am sure this will come in due time.
The price is ± $50.00 US.The video tutorials are excellent and the presenter speaks in a beautiful British language which even Buckingham Palace might approve upon When using Affinity I import my pictures via my desktop.It works pretty good for now. I am very happy with the results .It is an excellent App at an affordable price.Check it out . You won't regret it. Greetings: John Basso.
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Sep 23, 2015 4:20 AM in response to John basso 2by RobbieMeister,Thanks for that information on Affinity Phot, it is very useful.
It's worth noting there is a free trial. Serif have been in this market for a long time so they should know what they are doing.
However from what I see I just can't understand why Apple are dumping their traditional customer base and an application that they have invested so much time and money into.
Having invested heavily (money AND time) in Macs and iPhones for the last few years I am seeing a change in this company since the passing of SJ. It's a change, or at least a perceived change, I don't like.
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Sep 23, 2015 6:17 AM in response to RobbieMeisterby Terence Devlin,just can't understand why Apple are dumping their traditional customer base and an application that they have invested so much time and money into
There current customer base are overwhelmingly mobile users. They're using iPhones and iPads and folks like us a now a quite small niche market. Apple are in the business of selling hardware and they reckon they sell a lot more of that with a system of integrated products that work across the ecosystem OSX and iOS seamlessly.
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Sep 23, 2015 8:06 AM in response to Terence Devlinby Badunit,That is true. In the past it used to be good marketing to showcase the power of Apple's computers and software. Things like Final Cut being used by major motion picture studios, Aperture being used by top photographers, Mac Pro's being used by top research teams to develop cures for cancer, that kind of stuff (all of which I made up, some of which may be true). Even if you were just a consumer-level user, these were bragging rights that made you feel sure you were on the right team. Now it seems like the "bragging rights" are that my friends and I can more easily share photos with each other and, as you said, all my devices work seamlessly together (even if that means the most capable devices and software had to be dumbed down to make it so). It is a move away from capability and work and toward sharing and play. It is shallow.
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Sep 23, 2015 8:15 AM in response to Badunitby Terence Devlin,One (very) common misapprehension:
even if that means the most capable devices and software had to be dumbed down to make it so
The Mac versions of all these apps - Photos, Pages, Keynote, Numbers - are more capable than their iOS versions. They do not have the same feature set just the same data formats. So you can apply Styles with Pages for iOS but can't create them, which you can do with Pages for Mac. Faces on Photos is another example... No AppleScripting on the iOS apps, but available on the Mac ones and so on. When the apps were re-booted to share the data formats some features were lost, sure, but they are being added back as the apps are developed.
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Sep 23, 2015 9:48 AM in response to Badunitby Gerald Gifford,Badunit wrote:
That is true. In the past it used to be good marketing to showcase the power of Apple's computers and software. Things like Final Cut being used by major motion picture studios, Aperture being used by top photographers, Mac Pro's being used by top research teams to develop cures for cancer, that kind of stuff (all of which I made up, some of which may be true). Even if you were just a consumer-level user, these were bragging rights that made you feel sure you were on the right team. Now it seems like the "bragging rights" are that my friends and I can more easily share photos with each other and, as you said, all my devices work seamlessly together (even if that means the most capable devices and software had to be dumbed down to make it so). It is a move away from capability and work and toward sharing and play. It is shallow.
Agree and