I read Somewhere that Aperture is Limited in Sierra?

[jadot]

In one of the broken/working apps wiki I read that Aperture is restricted (or something like) in Sierra.

I haven't used Aperture for some time, but I still have libraries (3 or 4 libraries around 1TB each!) full of RAW files and so on...

Anyone had any experience with Sierra and Aperture? Am I going to have to re-archive my archive?

Thanks, J•

 

[Weaselboy]

There is a post here from a forum member saying it is working okay for them.

 

[Crazy Badger]

Restricted in what way? I've been using macOS since DP1 and haven't had any problems using Aperture.

 

[fenderbass146]

Just went to Europe and my wife used Aperture to edit all of our pictures on Sierra...also by the way...Whats the best option to replace Aperture. I have been telling her we are going to have to eventually. I know Lightroom is probably the best option but will require a lot of learning to get good at using it.

 

[comptr]

Just went to Europe and my wife used Aperture to edit all of our pictures on Sierra...also by the way...Whats the best option to replace Aperture. I have been telling her we are going to have to eventually. I know Lightroom is probably the best option but will require a lot of learning to get good at using it.

Its Lightroom. I used to use aperture and when apple announced that they are discontinuing aperture, I made the switch to Lightroom and its better. You can also still find Lightroom in boxed copies so that you don't have to subscribe to adobes CC.

 

[Crazy Badger]

Yes, I think the sensible answer is Lightroom, although I'm in the same position in that I'm hanging onto Aperture for as long as I can

Capture One is another option, and having played with it a little seems a little more Aperture-like on the surface. That said, I think Lightroom is the more sensible way to go, and it's what I'll be doing when Aperture doesn't work anymore

 

[fenderbass146]

Its Lightroom. I used to use aperture and when apple announced that they are discontinuing aperture, I made the switch to Lightroom and its better. You can also still find Lightroom in boxed copies so that you don't have to subscribe to adobes CC.

Yea, that's a must. I hate this subscription crap.

 

[chrfr]

Yea, that's a must. I hate this subscription crap.

The trouble with buying Lightroom outright is that you miss out on features added to the CC version. At $120 a year to get access to Photoshop and Lightroom, buying standalone isn't really a very good deal.

 

[fenderbass146]

The trouble with buying Lightroom outright is that you miss out on features added to the CC version. At $120 a year to get access to Photoshop and Lightroom, buying standalone isn't really a very good deal.

$120 a year over 5 years is $600 that I will never get back. The subscription model is great for companys but shafts the customers in the long run. I refuse to do it as long as I can. I already feel shafted by Apple music and other subscription services like it. If you want to keep your music collection your forced to pay for it the rest of your life.

 

[mixel]

I know a lot of people will laugh at this but Photos with its current extension support really isn't that bad. Particularly if you support projects like Affinity and Pixelmator. Having things like liquify tools and lense correction inside Photos without having to leave to do it is finally showing *why* Apple went down what seemed like a crazy path. I've been using Lightroom for years since apple dropped Aperture.. But now I just use LR for individual shoots where i know I'm going to be doing a lot of photo manipulation and keep my main family library in icloud photo library. (I export projects from LR back into Photos when needed.) Lightroom's photo syncing is all a bit "one main machine focused" and fiddly if you use a lot of different cameras and idevices. (you can set a folder to autosync to the Adobe CC but its slow and .. not ideal.. Never mind the fact that Adobe CC doesn't have any sort of decent or 2 factor security, so storing all your photos there seems a bit.. weird. Adobe don't want you do sync your entire library.. But I dont want to be doing wired photo syncs in this day and age outside of offloading from my SLR) Apples workflow between iPad+Photos, if you have a good suite of extensions in both.. IMO.. Is actually more pleasant than the equivalent with LR.

I do really like LR though, its just overkill much of the time.

 

[fenderbass146]

I know a lot of people will laugh at this but Photos with its current extension support really isn't that bad. Particularly if you support projects like Affinity and Pixelmator. Having things like liquify tools and lense correction inside Photos without having to leave to do it is finally showing *why* Apple went down what seemed like a crazy path. I've been using Lightroom for years since apple dropped Aperture.. But now I just use LR for individual shoots where i know I'm going to be doing a lot of photo manipulation and keep my main family library in icloud photo library. (I export projects from LR back into Photos when needed.) Lightroom's photo syncing is all a bit "one main machine focused" and fiddly if you use a lot of different cameras and idevices. (you can set a folder to autosync to the Adobe CC but its slow and .. not ideal.. Never mind the fact that Adobe CC doesn't have any sort of decent or 2 factor security, so storing all your photos there seems a bit.. weird. Adobe don't want you do sync your entire library.. But I dont want to be doing wired photo syncs in this day and age outside of offloading from my SLR) Apples workflow between iPad+Photos, if you have a good suite of extensions in both.. IMO.. Is actually more pleasant than the equivalent with LR.

I do really like LR though, its just overkill much of the time.

I agree, for me I am happy with Apple Photos especially since I have 4 Apple devices. I have almost gotten to a point where all of my media/data is on all my platforms automatically...really the only thing that hasn't gotten there yet is video media. (It's great, when I get a new iPhone, iPad, or even Mac I don't really have to even worry about transferring data, music with iTunes Match shows up, photos in cloud, they finally added iBooks to the cloud, documents are also in the cloud. Really the only stuff I have to worry about is my really big pc repair tools and images along with my movies. The future is here. (Obviously Applications but that a different story, depending on the app they may be in the App Store)

Back to photos, my wife the one hanging on to aperture and I've been telling her she's going to have to make a change soon lol.