BAD APPLE - THIS STINKS - APERTURE NO MORE!

I also feel my summer just got ruined. My whole full time professional working photography life is based around aperture..

Not sure where to start.. I love aperture.

ITs core to my business as a photographer.

I have tried all other software.. i just can not use it..

I would happily pay 500 a year for aperture to going and procressing.

I have years and years of achieve back up in two countries..

so you can image what this means for me.. months of work to re back up again..

i am worried that in 4-5 years i will not be able to access my old aperture files.

At the end, its the fastest and best soft wear i have ever used..

Please don't discontinue it.

not sure what help i can do..

Wil be it sold on to 3rd party developer..

or will it just be killed?

regards paul barbera

Paul,

I couldn't say it better myself.

Your images can be exported to other software packages, and you can retain some metadata. Other metadata, such as location, faces, colors, stacks, and adjustments are LOST. Stacks, albums, and other organization you may have applied will be LOST.

Integration with the Apple ecosystem, such as iPads, is gone as well.

Of course, the application's unique features and intuitive interface will no longer be available.

This is a very disappointing development.

Sorry, Lightroom, like Photoshop, is just not fun to use. But it looks like now it has become a necessity.

I don't understand this decision either. It's not like Apple hasn't had the funds to be able to support Aperture, but even if Aperture were not as profitable as they liked, they could have rolled almost all the features that Aperture currently possesses into the new Photos application (in effect subsuming iPhoto). For the price of the Aperture application, they could have included it with the installation of every new Mac and increased their photographer user base instead of neutering it.

Dumping people on the side of the street isn't a good way of supporting professionals.

What bothers me about the migration to an app that is shared with consumers is the "dumbing down" of many functions. I don't care about "moments" or "memories" when I'm trying to organize a project. I want clean, simple, pro-level terminology. It looks like we'll be losing that in Photos.

worst case ever for a pro photographer, who has terabytes of files. terrible!!!

This is such a shame. Luckily I kind of saw this coming a long time ago (no crystal ball, just bad ongoing vibes). I switched over to a combination of Lightroom, Photoshop and various plug-ins over a year ago. As an all Apple hardware user it makes you kind of think about how long Apple will even be in the computer business. It would seem that it has caught a commercial product fever and can't see the forest for the trees any longer. It eventually will become a consumer technology toy company at this rate (albeit a very rich one). It makes you wonder where the industry as a whole is heading. Are we destined to have great camera equipment and mediocre software? I guess we will just have to see who steps into the breech. We do need legitimate competitors to Adobe.

Somehow though I think, in time, there will be light at the end of this tunnel. For all of Apple's successes they are not the only "smart" people in this industry. I see the entrepreneurial light going on all over the place. Let the games begin!

I'm old enough and have been using Macs long enough to remember when it was Apple Computers. I have been lamenting the iEverything for a long time now and this is just sticking the knife in and twisting it.

I've been using Media Pro 1 as my primary DAM (digital asset management) application and iPhoto for special projects, i.e. books, calendars, etc.

FWIW if anyone decides to migrate to another DAM application and is interested in migrating to MP1 I've created a tutorial on how to do just that. It involves writing the metadata to the original/master files in the iPhoto/Aperture library with MP1 prior to migrating the Event folders out to another location for use with MP1: iP03 - Converting an iPhoto Library to a Media Pro Catalog System

There's a forum, The DAM Forum - Index - The DAM Book, that has sub forums for the various DAM apps including Media Pro. You can find out more about the various top DAM apps there.

Thanks for your continued help, OT.

Hopefully, Aperture users will take your cue, OT, and start seeking alternatives. Assess the alternatives and move on folks....Apple has made its decision, make yours, folks.

I'm willing to bet that there will be an option to store the photos locally to accommodate those users with no or antiquated internet connections, DSL, dial-up, etc.