Aperture Bites the Dust

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Aperture Screenshot

Apple recently stopped development of Aperture, the company’s professional image-editing application. They announced that the forthcoming Photos app will replace Aperture, as well as the company’s consumer-level iPhoto. Apple has demoed the new Photos software, but is keeping tight-lipped on how professional a tool this app will be. The company has said that pro features—such as search, plug-in capability, and advance editing—will remain. One of the biggest concerns is that the new Photos app stores everything in iCloud—a prospect not every photo pro is happy with. Of course, it’s quite possible users will be able to continue using their current version of Aperture software, avoiding migration to the Photos app for some time. As with everything Apple, users are usually kept in the dark until a product is officially launched. It’s quite possible that both pros and consumers will find a place for this new photo editing offering.

Are you an Aperture user? Have you used it as well as Adobe’s Lightroom? Let us know what Apple’s discontinuation of yet one more pro application means to you in the comments.

Erica Gamet has been involved in the graphics industry for over 35 years. She is a speaker, writer, trainer, and content creator focusing on Adobe InDesign, Apple Keynote, and varied production topics. She is a regular presenter at CreativePro Week, regular contributor to CreativePro Magazine, and has spoken at Canada’s ebookcraft, Adobe MAX, and Making Design in Oslo, Norway. Find Erica online at the CreativePro YouTube channel, CreativeLive.com and through her own YouTube channel. When she isn’t at her computer she’s probably daydreaming about travel or living in a Nordic noir landscape.

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  • Paul George says:

    I have used Aperture since version 1. When Adobe introduced Lightroom I checked it out. I am a member of Adobe CC so cost wasn’t going to be an issue, but I concluded, and maintain, that Aperture is a better product. Apple are making it harder and harder to be a creative professional using their products. What’s next Apple? Final Cut? Logic Pro?

  • mauijade says:

     I thought that I could use Aperture and Light Room

    Aperture kept crashing after I installed Light room. I had Aperture from the inception because I did not like I Photo. Another waste of money.

    Love the new PHSPCC and LIght Room. Good By Apple programs!

  • Andre V says:

    I have both and I keep going back to just using Camera Raw cause it has that stuff I need.

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