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Adobe Lightroom Icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

Since I purchased my first Apple device, a MacBook<\/a> Pro, over six years ago, I have used iPhoto<\/a> and latterly Aperture<\/a> to manage and edit my extensive photo collection. Having over 32,000 photos, I relied heavily on Aperture to sort and search my collection. Imagine my shock when I heard that support for Aperture was being discontinued and iPhoto was being replaced by a new application, Photos.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, I was upset to hear that an application that I use almost daily was being fazed out, although Aperture will continue to work after the release of Photos.<\/p>\n

I received the following email from Apple …<\/p>\n

Dear\u00a0Aperture customer,<\/em><\/p>\n

Last June,\u00a0we introduced the new Photos apps for\u00a0iOS<\/a> 8\u00a0and\u00a0OS X<\/a> Yosemite, along with\u00a0iCloud<\/a> Photo Library,\u00a0which lets you safely store all your photos in iCloud and access them from anywhere.<\/em><\/p>\n

When Photos for\u00a0OS X\u00a0launches this spring, Aperture will no longer be available for purchase from the\u00a0Mac App Store<\/a>.\u00a0You can continue to use Aperture on\u00a0OS X Yosemite, but you will not be able to buy additional copies of the app.<\/em><\/p>\n

You can migrate your Aperture library to Photos for\u00a0OS X,\u00a0including your photos, adjustments, albums and keywords. After migrating, your Aperture library remains intact.\u00a0However, Aperture and Photos do not share a unified library, so any changes made after the migration will not be shared between the apps.<\/em><\/p>\n

We thank you for using Aperture\u00a0and hope you will enjoy the new Photos for\u00a0OS X\u00a0app.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/em><\/p>\n

Apple<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Apple Aperture (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

I decided that the time had come to take another look at Adobe’s<\/a> Lightroom<\/a>. I had looked at this software when I brought my first Mac, but I decided against purchasing it, despite already owning a copy of Adobe’s Master Collection CS4, which included Photoshop and Dreamweaver, which I use regularly.<\/p>\n

After reading many forums and reviews, I realised that professional photographers had anticipated what was happening with Aperture, and how Apple were ‘dumbing down’ their\u00a0top-line applications. Many had given\u00a0up on Apple and swapped\u00a0over to Adobe.<\/p>\n

I grasped the nettle and purchased Lightroom earlier this year and decided that I wouldn’t use the built-in importer to get my photos from Aperture to Lightroom, mainly because some of the features I used would not transfer over to Lightroom.<\/p>\n

I purchased the excellent Adobe Lightroom 5 Classroom In A Book<\/a> and worked my way through the exercises. After completing the book, I realised that I ought to have moved over earlier and that Lightroom had nearly all the features of Aperture, and many more. The absent features, I soon found a way to achieve a similar result in Lightroom.<\/p>\n

Over the last few weeks, I have started working my way back through my photo collection and importing them all into Lightroom. I am cataloging them using keywords and location and I am building up an extensive portfolio of photos. This is not a five-minute job and will take many months to complete, but I am enjoying the challenge.<\/p>\n

The results of my efforts can be seen in my Flickr gallery under the ‘Pages’ tab in the right hand sidebar.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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