Anyone still using aperture

The good news is that there are literally thousands of videos on YouTube that cover just about every facet of LR, and you can pick stuff up pretty fast from these. The biggest downside (I think) is the modular nature of the interface. You have to switch to the Develop mode to get the tools you recognise from Aperture.

I agree with you100%.

The only reason I just bought a new iMac was, Apertur is still running on High Sierra.

If it had not, I have said goodby to Apple.

Someone in the Mac community told me Photos is a lot better now, almost no difference with Aperture.

You were misinformed 🙂

Yup, I love it for correcting White Balance!

You can install it yourself, just copy it over from the old machine.

I´m switching to On1 Photo RAW 2018 resp. 2019.

It is not bad and going faster during some updates 1 year.

In_between_dreams wrote:

Yep. Still using it.

Although I'm looking to what Luminar provides as their DAM effort. For now it is still providing the goods.

I have looked at Photos. But it still lacks a lot of features to keep me in the Apple realm (eg. brushable adjustments, importing GPS logging data, creating multiple versions, custom keyboard shortcuts and lots more).

The interface is so good. Or suits my workflow.

I have used Aperture professionally and also Capture One in a studio environment. Aperture is still the best.

If Photos were to offer a few more alá Aperture wisdom / Pro features. It may have my attention.

Until then, Aperture, suits my needs.

Ditto, pretty much!

For me it’s not a case of feature parity with aperture as a case of trust. I don’t trust apple anymore regarding photo software. I don’t want to put the effort needed to catalogue and develop my pictures in photos just to find out later that apple has decided to axe the app.

Case in point. I really liked the photobooks you could create with aperture, and thought that maybe the new photos app could be somewhat similar in that aspect. So, almost three years after the introduction of photos for macos, I opened the app and started a new book of photos of my newborn twins.

Fast forward one week, I open the app to continue working on the book and I’m greeted by a message stating that apple will not provide printing services anymore from september 2018.

So I really don’t trust apple anymore. These last years seem like they are trying to figure out what to discontinue next. If it weren’t for fcpx I’d already be in windows land.

TheCuerco wrote:

For me it’s not a case of feature parity with aperture as a case of trust. I don’t trust apple anymore regarding photo software. I don’t want to put the effort needed to catalogue and develop my pictures in photos just to find out later that apple has decided to axe the app.

Case in point. I really liked the photobooks you could create with aperture, and thought that maybe the new photos app could be somewhat similar in that aspect. So, almost three years after the introduction of photos for macos, I opened the app and started a new book of photos of my newborn twins.

Fast forward one week, I open the app to continue working on the book and I’m greeted by a message stating that apple will not provide printing services anymore from september 2018.

So I really don’t trust apple anymore. These last years seem like they are trying to figure out what to discontinue next. If it weren’t for fcpx I’d already be in windows land.

Again, DITTO!

and Amen!

Though Aperture still works in Mojave, though not as well as it did in High Sierra, I finally migrated (extremely begrudgingly) all my libraries to Photos. The iOS/macOC integration and support for Live and Portrait mode tipped the scales. The older I become, the more I'm not willing to invest in third-party software like Capture One, and Lightroom's interface…well…is just too much "in my face" for my tastes, and subscription software isn't for me.

After doing everything possible to create "clean," managed libraries (most of mine were referenced) in Aperture, the migration wasn't too bad, but still experienced numerous issues. Would prefer to maintain referenced libraries, but Photos HATES that workflow. Also discovered many images that were edited using Aperture's healing/clone brushes don't convert well. Forgot I had custom fields in one Aperture Library, so had to start the migration all over again.

I also feel Apple can't be trusted anymore with their software. Throwing dedicated Aperture users under the bus was the straw that broke my back, after being burned by the iWork and iLife suites, which I also embraced whole-heartedly, only to be presented with far inferior "modern" versions. Yet, I'm sticking with Photos since it's on my Mac, and will likely function and may support technologies long after it is discontinued (as has been the case the Aperture…must give Apple credit for that!). With extensions, Photos is workable, although Affinity Photo sadly does not (yet) support the HEIC format.

For those of you who have embraced Photos, I urge you to PLEASE keep filling out those feeback forms with your feature requests! My top 5 are 1) Tabbed panes (ala Aperture's Library, Info and Adjustments panes; and those in Pages, Numbers or Keynote); 2) Dynamic resizing of the description and keyword fields, based on their contents; 3) Adjustment brushes (though Luminar 2018 does a fine job); 4) Side-by-side (2-up) view feature; 5) Batch rename File and Title names.

Wish everyone luck with finding their own solution!