1.5 is a all-in-one post-production software tool for serious photographers who use Mac systems. Aperture – enthusiastically adopted by some of the worlds finest professional photographers – set the standard for professional photo management applications. It is indeed a complete software that is a pleasure working with. More than that, it’s flexibility relies upon the fact that Aperture lets you install and take advantage of third-party extensions for sharing, storing, printing, publishing, and selling your photographs in exciting new ways. Using its comprehensive collection of tools, you can easily import, manage, edit, catalog, organize, adjust, publish, export, and archi’ve your images easily and with quality. Non-destructive adjustment tools let you fine-tune; check and adjust Levels; modify; adjust hue, saturation, and luminance on a color-by-color basis; sharpen edges; modify highlights and shadow values; crop, straighten, reduce noise, correct red-eye, and eliminate dust. When it comes to powering through a large shoot and making critical decisions, no single application offers the collection of compare-and-select tools youll find in Aperture since it lets you work Full Screen or even on multiple screens.

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Not only that you can improve hundreds of thousands of images, but Aperture lets you choose the best way to store them by consolidating into a single library that Aperture manages for you. Aperture also offers simple yet powerful tools for assigning metadata.

In fact, you can begin the process on import, and presets let you fill metadata fields enmasse. The latest version provides RAW support for more than 70 camera models – from Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, and other leading manufacturers. Also, Aperture automatically creates “versions” of your “master” images to preview, crop, color correct, sharpen, and apply other modifications to, such that your RAW originals remain perfectly safe with no change of a single pixel in them.

It’s also noticeable that when you export RAW images, Aperture also exports their associated metadata in XMP sidecar files, making it easy for applications – like Photoshop – to pick up and use that metadata. Further, after processing and organizing images, a full complement of output options, lets you quickly and easily create contact sheets, printed portfolios, books, or customized prints. Print them yourself, or order professional prints and books without leaving Aperture. By taking advantage of a new drag-and-drop JPEG export feature, you can quickly take an image from your Aperture library and incorporate it in an iWeb photo blog, Keynote presentation, Motion animation, iDVD slideshow, or cut away in iMovie HD or Final Cut Pro. Export API feature helps you to connect Aperture with a variety of output, storage, and publishing services via third-party plug-ins, creating custom workflows that use Aperture as your front end. Aperture can also work hand-in-hand with Automator to help you create automated workflows. The latest update (as in October 2007) is Apple Aperture 1.5.6 which addresses issues related to performance, improves overall stability, and supports compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard v10.5.

In detail: – Resolves some minor compatibility issues with iPhoto 7.1, which organizes images by Event rather than Roll. – Addresses issues related to metadata and sort order when sharing previews with iLife Media Browser.

– Improves reliability of queries based on Import Session. – Addresses reliability when recovering an Aperture Library from a Vault.

TThanks for the suggestions. I plan to continue using Aperture since it meets over 90% of my needs, but will investigate some of the other software in case the Aperture replacement doesn't have the same capabilities as Aperture. That's what I am doing.

Aperture is just perfect for the things I need, and I will use it as long as it will stay available. What I am doing right now is ensuring that my my Aperture library is ship-shape and consistent, and I am trying to make sure, that all metadata are written to the originals, just in case I need to migrate the library to another application some day. Then I want the the metadata applied to the the originals. That's very similar to what I have down, and FWIW it made a transition to both LR and Capture One pretty easy. I didn't lose any organizational ability or info in the process; I was able to achieve exactly the same structure in all three.

It sounds like you made minimal use of Aperture, more like a photo editor. With that workflow, and depending on how it handles RAW for you, I'd look hard at Capture One. I didn't like it overall for organizing all my photos, and would prefer either LR or Aperture over it for that purpose alone, but for processing RAW it was better than the others IMHO.

I've sort of moved away from it because of the plugins I now use with LR but I still do some batch RAW conversion in it, for say RAW images where I don't like the jpegs the camera produces. If you really used lots of Aperture's advanced editing features, then you may want to look at moving to Adobe's Lightroom. But I think if you were REALLY clamoring for this, you'd already know and be working in that direction. If you had a more moderate use case, do know that Aperture is being replaced by an application called 'Photos' which Apple said is coming in early 2015.

We don't know the exact feature set that Photos will have yet, and how it will compare to Aperture's. Maybe it will be close, and certainly it will have better photo sharing with iOS.

Given that Aperture is still supported on OS X Yosemite, it may be worth sitting tight and seeing what Photos looks like before making a move. TThanks for the suggestions. I plan to continue using Aperture since it meets over 90% of my needs, but will investigate some of the other software in case the Aperture replacement doesn't have the same capabilities as Aperture. That's what I am doing. Aperture is just perfect for the things I need, and I will use it as long as it will stay available. What I am doing right now is ensuring that my my Aperture library is ship-shape and consistent, and I am trying to make sure, that all metadata are written to the originals, just in case I need to migrate the library to another application some day. Then I want the the metadata applied to the the originals.

Regarding the 'ship shape' comment: you might want to look at some other products just to see how they would handle importing images. There is a lot of chatter on that subject for obvious reasons. What you don't want is all your info being stuck in a format that is difficult to retrieve. First, consider referenced photos instead of the library. The managed library of Aperture/iPhoto is pretty unique to Apple. Sure, things like Lightroom's Aperture importer will copy those photos out for you, but it's a work around.

If you have a photo structure in the Finder, it's always available no matter what you use, DAM or browser or just Spotlight. Second, consider preserving your photo adjustments. Think of them as printed pictures. The adjustments (except really simple stuff like maybe crops, etc) do not carry over to other image managing programs per se; the way to preserve those adjustments is to export the photo as adjusted, say in a TIFF. That's what you may have noticed that plugins like Nik do: they don't pass adjustment INFO to Aperture, they pass an exported photo. Consider a workflow that does the same. Even if the new Apple products or whatever comes next is what you wanna use, it may be useful to have these.

Some of the cool adjustments demo'd in Photos might translate exactly from your Aperture info, but maybe not. You might have to start anew, and having at least an exemplar might be nice. Third, make your photos application independent by writing in metadata.

The cool thing about image files is that even your garage door opener can probably open them. They are really universal.

AND so is the exif/IPTC/XMP metadata within those files or sidecars. So write it in there. You can replicate a whole Project/folder/album or collection set/collection just using heirarchical keywords. And another cool thing is that this info is available in the Finder, in other operating systems, and with searches via Spotlight.

It's tremendously powerful and many Aperture and Lightroom users, who often are solo users, don't make enough use of it. Those who worked with other people/departments etc probably use this more often; Photo Mechanic is the epitome of this. Metadata in photos is far more powerful than even tags in the operating system; it's like a DAM grafted into your files. I have always imported my photos using Image Capture and set my own file structure in Finder.

When traveling, I usually download the photos taken during the day to a new folder on my ancient Macbook Pro and then do a backup using Time Machine. I shoot in RAW and small,fine JPGs. The camera processed JPGs can then be immediately shared with others. After I return home, I transfer all new photo folders to my desktop iMac and then import selected RAW files into Aperture as 'Referenced' files for editing. I'Ve played with Lightroom somewhat, but I prefer Aperture's workflow and organizational tools. Too bad Apple didn't choose to modernize Aperture with some of the image correction features available in Lightroom 5.

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I Want to thank everyone for their helpful comments. This is my first experience with the Apple Support Community. It is a very helpful forum. That's very similar to what I have down, and FWIW it made a transition to both LR and Capture One pretty easy. I didn't lose any organizational ability or info in the process; I was able to achieve exactly the same structure in all three. It sounds like you made minimal use of Aperture, more like a photo editor.

With that workflow, and depending on how it handles RAW for you, I'd look hard at Capture One. I didn't like it overall for organizing all my photos, and would prefer either LR or Aperture over it for that purpose alone, but for processing RAW it was better than the others IMHO. I've sort of moved away from it because of the plugins I now use with LR but I still do some batch RAW conversion in it, for say RAW images where I don't like the jpegs the camera produces. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums. Apple disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site.

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