Leonie said her Aperture adjustments were not migrating to Photos. Is this still true?

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Leonie said her Aperture adjustments were not migrating to Photos. Is this still true?

I have about 20,000 photos in Aperture on my iMac running Mojave. I have had difficulty deciding whether to migrate them to Lightroom or Photos. On Photos I use extensions such as Luminar 4 and Pixelmator to edit. I have spent countless hours editing these Aperture photos. A top priority is to transfer them to an app which preserves these edits as much as possible. It therefore shook me up a bit when Leonie posted last year that her Aperture adjustments were mostly not migrating to Photos. It would be very helpful to hear: 1. If this still holds true? 2. If only some adjustments don't make it (ie brushed, etc) 3. Is there a workaround which helps to transfer the edits? 4. Other comments.

I understand that Aperture adjustments do not transfer to Lightroom Classic but there is some kind of workaround involving transfering previews or another strategy. How practical is this for thousands of photos?

Would greatly appreciate any feedback by Leonie or others on these questions.

Richard

iMac 27", macOS 10.12

Posted on Mar 23, 2020 6:42 PM

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Answer 1

léonie

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Mar 28, 2020 5:31 PM in response to rgm3

Richard, the Aperture edits will be migrated to Photos, but not as adjustments that can be individually reverted. Photos is not powerful enough to recreate the Aperture adjustments. What will happen is, that all Aperture edits will be migrated as previews of the edit versions. You have to ensure, that you let Aperture create high resolution previews of your edited versions, before you migrate the library.

I migrated my Aperture Libraries to Photos, when Photos first came out. At that time many of the photos I had edited in Aperture would be looking horrible in Photos. They had many block blocks overlayed, like a salt-and-pepper noise. I had to revert these photos to the original version.

You still cannot edit photos in Photos further, that have been edited in Aperture. You have to revert the photo to the original, before Photos can add further adjustments.

Why not make a test and see for yourself? Create a small test library in Aperture and open it with Photos and check what you will get.

How to prepare the Photo Libraries before upgrading to Catalina - Apple Community

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rgm3 Author

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Mar 29, 2020 11:01 AM in response to léonie

Thank you for your excellent reply Leonie. Just what I was looking for. I created a new library in Aperture for some test pictures. Could you give me some tips on how to open this library in Photos?

Richard

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Yer_Man

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Mar 30, 2020 12:20 AM in response to rgm3

Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch Photos. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and point at this Aperture Library. It will do the rest.

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léonie

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Mar 30, 2020 4:35 AM in response to rgm3

You may want to look ist this help page on how to switch between libraries in Photos:

Create additional photo libraries in Photos on Mac - Apple Support

System Photo Library overview

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Leonie said her Aperture adjustments were not migrating to Photos. Is this still true?

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