Aperture in macOS High Sierra...

It crashed in the middle of working on a project. I was working on creating a slide show from imported files. It just closed and after a few minutes the memory dump came up on the screen with an option to re-start Aperture. It's possible I just need more memory, but it doesn't seem like it should crash like that. Maybe High Sierra handles some memory functions differently than previous versions of macOS.

Yes, it has the usual controls for highlight and shadows, contrast, white balance, and similar. And the beauty is, you can apply each adjustment or filter in a separate layer and brush the adjustments in locally. And touch the photos up. It is the first editor, that I found, where I can dodge and burn with precise brush strokes. The layers are meant to blend your adjustments, not primarily to add graphics overlays. You only need to use the layers, if you want to be able to revert adjustments individually. You can combine your favorite adjustments and save them as a preset. It is very close to what I could do with the brushed adjustments in Aperture.

Moreover, it doesn't seem to be recognized by Photos as an extension.

I launched Luminar 2018, then first used the command Luminar > Install Plug-ins. Then quit Luminar 2018 and restarted the Mac. After that, the Luminar 2018 Photo Editing extension has been showing in the System Preferences > Extensionsand I could add it.

But I had to run first App Cleaner to remove all traces of the Luminar Pluto Trial, that I have running previously.

Truthfully, I have no idea what happened to the Aperture library. The 1st time I opened it & got only a few projects, I reloaded the library I had backed up on the desk top before switching to Sierra & it was fine. After that something automatically opened Photos & all my projects were in there & then I couldn't get them back into Aperture. Last night I restored the Library from Time Machine & now have all the photos under Library 2, but only a few of the Projects. I'm sure a lot of this is user error, since I don't understand how all this works. So, it's not a problem with Aperture per se & my husband loves it (he's the photographer), but it is a problem with the two programs running under Sierra for low level, non-techies, like me. Never had this problem with Yosemite. Thanks for your help!

It's a real shame that, while High Sierra provides system support for Olympus ORF files from the OMD EM1 mark 2, Aperture cannot access them. Given the system support, one would think that we are just a little bit of Aperture code away from being able to do it so I wonder whether some evil genius could make it work with a patch. As someone else pointed out on this thread, why on earth don't Apple just sell the rights to Aperture to some 3rd party, who could then keep up development? It's clear from comments both here and elsewhere that thousands/millions of photographers want to stay with Aperture and haven't found anything else to rival its all-round abilities, especially in management, so what a pity to let it die! Or, even better, reverse the decision to kill it in favour of the inferior Photos.

Capture One now has a paid upgrade. That makes it more costly, unfortunately. I haven't really seen any big difference betweeen Capture One Pro 10 or 11. And there is no support yet for RAW editing from the Lumix DC-TZ90.

I hadn't realised that. Must be a ruse then, to get people on board.Hat's a shame because all that is missing from Affinity is asset management. It is one of the cheapest options too. Back to the drawing board ...

1. Apple almost never comment on here.

2. Their comment was to cease development and sale of the app almost three years ago. it's dead.

My only concern is what happens if do to future updates of OS at one point in time Aperture will stop working at all.

You've had (at this point) three years notice that this is going to happen. At what point are you going to move another app?

I would be deeply frustrated (to put it mildly) if I then would not be able to migrate the library content to some place else and lose everything, cannot even imagine that

With respect, if at this point you haven't chosen your replacement and migrated to it, your frustration will be only with yourself.

I confirm with you. Photos are only for snapping People. I´m deeply disappointed by that strategy from Apple. I have to spend thousands of hours at my Apple database which contained approximately 100.000 pictures.

Right now I have exported all these pictures to a file-oriented structure. It takes me further 150hours.

So for now, I´m no longer dependent on Marketing strategies by Apple or Adobe. Goodbye huge business groups.

That is certainly true. The point is people are looking for an app that can import and catalogue all their images and at the same time edit them. There are several good editing apps, but without the cataloguing option. Then there are very good cataloguing plus editing apps but with limitations for some RAW formats. It is a pity Apertures was discontinued.

I do not have the time to learn something else. Aperture is so perfect for me. When an OS version comes out that breaks it, I will cease upgrading my Mac.

Culling - a good strategy, particularly if Capture One in my case has limitations around library size (someone suggested 20,000 images) :-(

. I was assured by a rep from Affinity that they intend to develop a DAM in the future

They announced that in 2015 and there's been an awful lot of silence since.

I find Capture One to be way too expensive for my needs. I wish there was a good alternative out there. I have used Affinity Photo which is good but no asset management.

Allan Eckert wrote:

Maybe you should let Apple know about this by posting at Feedback - Aperture - Apple

Do you seriously think Apple hasn't heard an earful about their boneheaded move?