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Jan 25, 2016 6:09 PM in response to robbinsby Terence Devlin,★HelpfulThere is no way to use the two apps together that makes any sense.
You can migrate an Aperture Library to Photos. Thereafter the two apps have zero awareness of each other. To get another photo from Aperture to Photos you would need to export to from Aperture to the Finder and then import it to Photos, and vice versa.
If you do consider Photos remember it is not a replacement for Aperture by any stretch of the imagination, and much less capable. Coming from iPhoto it does have improvements.
What are you hoping to achieve by using the two together?
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Jan 25, 2016 6:14 PM in response to Terence Devlinby robbins,Terence, thank you for your response. Photos seems to have an easier access for distributing photos. I am very chagrined that Apple is no longer supporting aperture. Are you still using aperture or have you gone to Lightroom as many people have done. Is there a real benefit to going to Lightroom?
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Jan 25, 2016 7:18 PM in response to robbinsby 60wpm,YES! & YES! -- I have kept Aperture & I still use it. -- And it's okay to use both Aperture and Photos. (BUT once to migrate your old Aperture Libraries to Photos, they can't be used in Aperture again, they are transformed into the Photos file format and can't be reconverted back).
ONE REASON is I like and want to continue to use the Light Table.
Other reasons, why throw it away? I have several plug-ins that work in it? Maybe it would be useful for a a specific new library or some other use.
(Note: I had 16 Aperture Libraries for the purpose of keeping Topics separate & for keeping the Size of the library reasonable. I used an app, iPhoto Library Manager, for that and just last week heard that company, fatcatsoftware, came out with a new app to do the same for creating libraries and changing libraries, MERGING libraries, and moving photos from one library to another in Photos -- App is called: PowerPhotos, it cost me $15 to get the upgrade).
You can do all this without such an app but I'm not sure...I found having three photos apps from Apple confusing and wasn't happy about that: iPhotos, now Photos, and Aperture. And it seemed 'complicated' but there is a tool provided by Apple to migrate (but does it make libraries....IDK, I just did it in a way that was easy and relatively inexpensive for me).
APPLE INFO:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204655Aug 7, 2015 - Or you can click Create New to create an all-new, empty library. Photos can use libraries from iPhoto 8.0 or later and any version of Aperture. If you'd like to migrate a library from iPhoto 7 or earlier, use Apple's free iPhoto Library Upgrader tool to prepare your library first.SO --- After some months of hesitation I DID move all these libraries over to Photos using my upgrade to PowerPhotos.
I MIGRATED all my previous Aperture Libraries to Photos. I also migrated all my previous iPhoto libraries to Photos.
Everything came out okay. Photos appears rather limited (can it even create libraries? How organize photos? etc...although I'm still new to it).
But Photos is easy access, since it's the Apple default app for photos and it seems fast.
ALSO, since mentioned by another poster on this thread...I was so frustrated with dealing with three Apple photos apps that I simple made up folders in my Finder for each of my 16 libraries and I would just easily drag and drop and download photos there before deciding which app to put them it -- but what has happened is that I just left them there and using an app like Lightroom, ACDSee, and/or PhotoMechanic -- or the free Adobe Bridge -- I could see what was in these folders, change names, add metadata, etc.
Good luck. Have fun.
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Jan 27, 2016 12:29 PM in response to robbinsby Terence Devlin,★HelpfulI use Lightroom - but a I say, there's no way to use the two apps together.
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Jan 27, 2016 9:35 AM in response to robbinsby citroenDS,this is quite a clear + useful summary from Apple that covers using Aperture, Photos and iPhoto on the same machine > Get started with Photos for OS X - Apple Support
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Jan 27, 2016 9:50 AM in response to robbinsby léonie,I'm using Photos, iPhoto, and Aperture on all my Macs. All three applications can be open at the same time, they do not interfere. You cannot share the photo libraries between Aperture and Photos, however. It is one-way. Photos can open Aperture libraries and iPhoto Libraries, and create migrated copies, but Aperture cannot open the Photos Library. But if you import photos to Photos, you will find a Share menu item "Add to Aperture".
And if you invest into Power Photos, you can easily move photos between all your libraries.
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Jan 27, 2016 10:10 AM in response to robbinsby travellingbirder,Yes I still use Aperture and also iPhotos. The Photos app is a dumbed down disaster designed for people who take selfies on their iPhone. You can't get rid of it but you can keep Aperture & iPhoto - just check the preferences to make sure your camera/SD card reader opens one or other by default. I never open Photos on my MacBook Pro, it is just a bucket of worms. When it automatically installed it converted every edit I have ever made in iPhotos into a 'new' photo with a new date - I got thousands of duplicates! There is also a new app, "Affinity Photo" which is at least as good as Aperture, probably better than Photoshop and works well on latest Mac OIS.
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Jan 27, 2016 10:37 AM in response to travellingbirderby léonie,There is also a new app, "Affinity Photo" which is at least as good as Aperture, probably better than Photoshop and works well on latest Mac OIS.
And Affinity Photo works as photo editing extensions in Photos. You can use many of its features directly from Photos, just like the old Aperture plug-ins.
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Feb 1, 2016 9:56 AM in response to léonieby Artusi,Hello léonie, good to "see" you again. Have you been using Affinity for a while now?...what do you think about it generally? Thank you
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Feb 1, 2016 10:12 AM in response to Artusiby léonie,Affinity is a very good image editor. I find it easier to use and more intuitive than Adobe Photoshop.
But still, for me at least, it is slower and requires more clicking around, than applying the same adjustments than in Aperture.
Because of that, I am using Affinity mostly as a photo editing extension from Photos, at least the tools, that are available as editing extensions.
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Feb 6, 2016 12:47 AM in response to robbinsby travellingbirder,I slated Photos on the forum, I then received a phone call from a very nice Apple guy in Texas (I live in the UK) who eventually took control of my MacBook and allowed me to keep both iPhotos and Aperture and hid the Photos app in a place that I will never open. The default in Photos is to sort by date, what idiot came up with that, imagine going into a library and finding all the books were arranged by publication date rather than by subject or author - where would you start? If you take a trip which includes New Year, Photos will spilt this into two. If you have a large collection of photos how on earth are you going to recall whether you took the pic in 2003 or 2004. You catalogue photos by subject or locality, NEVER by date. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
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Feb 12, 2016 4:32 PM in response to robbinsby 60wpm,I've now changed to now only abandoning Aperture, iPhotos, but also Photos and PowerPhotos...and my experience with Lightroom a disaster (twice). Now all my photos are in folders on the Finder (Path Finder).
I was using free trials of both On1 Photo Browser 10 and ACDSee for Mac 3.7 to BROWSE and organize everything. (I use Photoshop for editing).
This has worked out well. I finally feel I have full control of my photos and can see them the way I want (NOT by dates, and not having the browser, like Lightroom, reorganize everything into Datees...or insist on importing overtime, etc.
With both the free trials I could rate, color label, mark for deletion,add keywords and metadata that Photoshop will recognize (that was important to me). On1 had a better look to it, imo, is a bit faster, - cost $59.00
I was going to go for it but discovered ACDSee is on sale for $29 for four more days; so I went for that. Even if a bit slower and not such a nice 'look' is has revealed itself to have some extra features, like viewing gifs, or converting photo formats, and do some basic editing like cropping and resizing that can be handy without having to go to Photoshop.
Photoshop, which also has great plugin available (Google Nik collection, Topaz filters, Alien Skins, Arkkas, etc.- Some work with Lightroom but not all, yet. But now it seems there's a deal at Adobe to get Lightroom and Photoshop together for $9.99/month as a subscription.
ANYHOW...I'm happy to be free of All libraries, except my own folders. I'll just use Photos to 'ingest' photos, then simply drag and drop them immediately to my photos folders in the Finder. -- And keep Aperture around for it's Fightable.

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Feb 12, 2016 11:32 PM in response to 60wpmby Terence Devlin,I'll just use Photos to 'ingest' photos, then simply drag and drop them immediately to my photos folders in the Finder. -
Image Capture (in the Applications Folder) is the app you're looking for there.
That said, glad you found a system that works for you, but it's not the same as Aperture, iPhoto, Lightroom or the others. It's not a DAM and doesn't have non-destructive processing.



