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[DaveF]

I ended up with Aperture because I desperately needed to merge three different iPhoto libraries. I don't have much of a problem with its feature set, and PhotoStream integration is huge, but I haven't tried Lightroom so I don't know what I am missing. I do have do a HUGE complaint: performance (on my 2009 MacPro with 8GB memory), working in JPEG, is just awful. Beachball city. I do have a very large library, but still. Also, no easy (or indeed one which I have gotten to work) way to watermark photos. If a hugely improved Aperture X doesn't appear by the end of the year, I am jumping to Lightroom. In the meantime I am going to stick a fast SSD in the MacPro figuring it the single most effective way to up performance.

how big is your library?Did the preview generation setting help?

 

[Ted Todorov]

Ted, in Aperture's preferences, ask it to generate previews when quitting. It'll take longer to quit but should gain you a lot of performance while editing.

This is the correct one, right?

 

[Ted Todorov]

how big is your library?Did the preview generation setting help?

36,525 photos, no RAW, all JPEG.

WIll report on the setting change.

I ordered a SSD from OWC to use as a boot/Aperture drive, and intend to do a clean Mountain Lion Install on it, and load apps one by one, as needed -- trying to clean out 4.5 years worth of cruft (more, really since the Mac was originally setup via Firewire from an older Mac.)

 

[Aaron Reynolds]

That's the preference! Let me know how it goes.

 

[Ted Todorov]

So after installing the PCIe SSD, and moving the photo library on it, Aperture might as well be a completely different program. It flies, as does everything else. Can't tell if the preference change made a difference as it and the new drive happened at the same time.

If you have a Mac running slow, stick a good SSD in it, it's like having a new machine. No wonder the new Mac Pro will be SSD only.

 

[DaveF]

Well that's just cheating The SSD for us has to wait for the next Mac upgrade (from current iMac).

 

[Sam Posten]

Apple killed Aperture.http://www.wired.com/2014/06/apple-kills-aperture/

 

[DaveF]

I was wondering where this thread had gone off to Not long ago, I was wondering if I should buy aperture or Lightroom. Glad I procrastinated on buying aperture. Still haven't gotten Lightroom yet, though. I'm impatient to get the new version app, Photos.

 

[KeithAP]

At least they promised to make it Yosemite compatible. I am not into photography like I use to be so hopefully the Photos app will be adequate. For those hoping for an Aperture update, that has to smart a bit.

-Keith

 

[Ted Todorov]

I'm definitely not happy. I guess I'll have to start moving towards Lightroom (which I have, as part of the Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom rental package) and I haven't invested the Tim in seriously learning to use it. With Aperture a I hit the ground running, for whatever reason I didn't find Lightroom anywhere near as intuitive

 

[Sam Posten]

Free resources for those moving from Aperture to Lr.http://kelbyone.com/aperture-to-lightroom/