Morgan Britt

Q: How do you export an Aperture library to Lightroom?

I have Lightroom v. 5.x and I want to export my Aperture libraries into Aperture ant not lose my edits or metadata.  That is, I don't want to import all the raw files into Lightroom and have to edit them again.  I was thinking that I could export all the projects as JPGs and then import them but I would rather have the RAW files and the ability to edit again without losing any quality.  Any suggestions?

iMac, Other OS, Aperture 3.5, Adobe CS 4

Posted on Jul 25, 2016 10:28 PM

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  • by LarryHN,Helpful

    LarryHN LarryHN Jul 25, 2016 11:03 PM in response to Morgan Britt
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    Jul 25, 2016 11:03 PM in response to Morgan Britt

    Sorry but that is not an option - LR can not use the Aperture library - you have to export your photos (either the originals or the current version) and import to LR

     

    Exporting as high quality JPEGs gives you minimum data loss with somewhat reasonable file sizes - it you truly want no data loss then export as TIFFs which require a great deal of disk

     

    LN

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 26, 2016 12:31 AM in response to Morgan Britt
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    Jul 26, 2016 12:31 AM in response to Morgan Britt

    The  "Exporter for Aperture" from the App Store can make the migration easier. It will preserve the project structure, the meta data and  edited versions and the originals with sidecar files of the metadata.

    Screen Shot 2016-07-26 at 09.20.39GMT.png

    The alternative is Adobes importer plug-in :

    https://apertureexporter.com/content/aperture-exporter-vs-adobes-importer-plugin

     

    There is no third party application, that can import an Aperture library completely lossless. Only Photos for Mac can do that