I think that giving up on Aperture and accepting its demise is not our only option, Aperture is by far the best digital photo application that Apple (or indeed any other software developer) have created and as such, must not be allowed to disappear.
If we all create a groundswell of opinion we can persuade them to reinstate this Rolls Royce of an application. Lets unite, and rise up to remind Apple that Adobe cannot be the provsole digital photo platform on the planet.
Unfortunately you will have to change at some point. Some folks say that they won't update the OS and just keep using Aperture, but one day your Mac will break and you'll need to replace it. At that point you will have to use a new OS, and if Aperture won't run on that, then you will have a crisis on you hands.
Now is the time to evaluate alternatives and select one, so that you can do the transition is an orderly and managed fashion. If you think that might be too stressful, then imagine the stress when you're learning a new OS on a new computer and a new app all at the same time, and you can't even access the Aperture Library.
Adobe are not the only people with apps in this space, tho probably LR is the nearest to Aperture, and has a migration tool. But there are others: Capture One, Corel AfterShot, ON1 PhotoRaw, Luminar promises a new DAM app in 2018 and so on.
Frankly, I don't see that you have a choice. Do it now when it can be managed, or later when it's a crisis. That's your choice.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
I hope you win your wager!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😟
Terence Devlin wrote:
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.
I very strongly disagree!
While the words 'dumbing down' might not exactly fit this situation to a tee, they certainly describe the over all attitude of Apple toward Aperture.
Aperture (like Bento) was deliberately and unceremonoiously relegated to the trash bin of time when Apple announced it would no longer be supported in future OS versions. This was done, no doubt, in order to placate the users of Apple's teeny computers so they could pass their heavily filtered selfies around to each other and to sell iPads and iPhones.
Look at the last 'BIG' apple announcement. First up on the stage was Apple's new collection of super duper watch bands. How far it has fallen.
Aperture, in my opinion, was far and above the best organizing and searching software ever. Neither Photos or Lightroom even come close!
.
Don't give up on Aperture
