Years ago we had the choice of Aperture or Lightroom - we have been happy with that decision so far and this just confirms it. But lightroom still leaves a lot to be desired from a photo management perspective - and I wish there were more alternatives. I'm afraid that the one main competitor going away will cause improvements to languish in lightroom. Even though we didn't use Aperture, I will be sorry to see it go.
Apple to Cease Development of Aperture and Transition Users to Photos for OS X
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#12I don't use Aperture, but I think it's really unfortunate that the standard practice for companies like Apple is to simply drop a product entirely rather than open-sourcing it.
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#13I don't use Aperture, but I think it's really unfortunate that the standard practice for companies like Apple is to simply drop a product entirely rather than open-sourcing it.
It probably uses a lot of proprietary Apple libraries anyway, so even if you had the code for this app you probably couldn't build it.
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#14I used Aperture for a long time, and last year moved to Lightroom. Aperture has been effectively dead for awhile and this news is just confirmation.
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#15It's clear they are putting everything into Photos and so this makes sense. Big question is what they do with all the edits/metadata/etc that people have invested in Aperture.
That’s not clear. They obviously won’t do that. It will be much, much simpler. I mean, Apple is working on a transition tool to Lightroom together with Adobe. That should tell you everything you need to know. Apple no longer wants to compete in that space.
I think photos will be even simpler than iPhoto. Or maybe simpler in many ways, more features in others. Hopefully it will be nice and lightweight. OS X needs that. Both iPhoto and Aperture were sluggish and their whole interface was just so heavy handed and complex.
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#16I wonder how I would have felt had I bought Aperture a couple of weeks ago. Sure, 69€ isn't much, but knowing that those were basically thrown away would have been bad nonetheless.
Thankfully, I resisted the urge.
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#17I have to imagine they'll do three things: - Feature/Adjustments parity with Aperture - Migration of 100% edits/metadata from Aperture/iPhoto - Photos Extensions on Mac The third will be really exciting. It's already going to be awesome to have VSCOcam connected to the Photos library without having to create duplicate images; this on Mac will be terrific as well. I am looking forward to moving off Lightroom! Seems ve…
just like Final Cut Pro X, right?
(can't tell if you're sarcastic, thought maybe not)
Re: Apple to Cease Development of Aperture and Transition Users to Photos for OS X
#18I have to imagine they'll do three things: - Feature/Adjustments parity with Aperture - Migration of 100% edits/metadata from Aperture/iPhoto - Photos Extensions on Mac The third will be really exciting. It's already going to be awesome to have VSCOcam connected to the Photos library without having to create duplicate images; this on Mac will be terrific as well. I am looking forward to moving off Lightroom! Seems ve…
When you use apeture, you realize it's a branch of iPhoto anyway. They use similar library formats / directory structure and probably shared a lot of code. Many people have DSLRs now a days, so raw management should be a given.
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#19Man, this just sucks. iPhoto (okay, they're killing that too, but "Photos" will be similar if not more limited) is weak, and Lightroom feels like a bad Java app. Aperture was fantastic, a true Mac app.
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#20I have to imagine they'll do three things: - Feature/Adjustments parity with Aperture - Migration of 100% edits/metadata from Aperture/iPhoto - Photos Extensions on Mac The third will be really exciting. It's already going to be awesome to have VSCOcam connected to the Photos library without having to create duplicate images; this on Mac will be terrific as well. I am looking forward to moving off Lightroom! Seems ve…
just like Final Cut Pro X, right? (can't tell if you're sarcastic, thought maybe not)
I wasn't being sarcastic, but with FCP's history I can see the skepticism.
I do think/hope it will be different. I feel like there are more signs pointing to "Photos" app as being superior to Aperture/iPhoto (which, yes, are totally the same thing really now) and Lightroom.