In the second part of my analysis of Capture One Pro as compared to Aperture, I emphasize several reasons why you may hesitate in making the switch.

The Adjustment Brush in Lightroom is quite powerful and in my opinion much more versatile then the brushes in Aperture. By turning on Auto Mask the brush can detect edges and apply a variety of effects with great precision. This has allowed me to avoid round tripping many of my images into Photoshop saving me time. This has quickly become my favorite feature I’ve gained since moving to Lightroom.

If you try to open a Capture One catalog and get a message stating the catalog is open by another user when you know it is not, then this is how you restore access.

In part one of analysis, I compare many aspects of Aperture to Capture One, and highlight my reasons for moving to Capture One Pro v8.

Capture One Pro 8 allows you to import and Aperture library — adjustments and all. This article gives you a brief overview of what you can and cannot expect Capture One to do with your Aperture images once they are imported.

Like others, I am evaluating which direction to migrate my Aperture libraries. I have been testing PhaseOne Capture One Pro and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Both applications offer migration paths for ingesting Aperture libraries, but neither application does the job perfectly. It is important to me that all of the IPTC metadata and keywords are transferred. In this article I demonstrate four different methods that I tested with Lightroom for transferring this information and provide the results of each test.

Many users are jumping ship from Aperture, and that’s understandable. But one of the options is the wait-and-see approach, which is exactly what I’m doing. Read on to understand my thought process, my frustrations, and my tolerance!

This post picks up where part one left off. We all know that Aperture is going away, and we’re all eventually going to have to switch to something else. Last week, I looked at the interface and workflow features in Lightroom and Capture One. In today’s segment, I’ll dive into specific image editing comparisons and capabilities between all three apps.

Aperture is going away, and we’re all eventually going to have to switch to something else. After years of working with Aperture, and months of exploring both Lightroom and Capture One, I’d like to share a collection of comparisons between the three apps. In today’s section, I’ll look at the interface and workflow features. In the next segment, I’ll dive into specific image editing comparisons and capabilities.

Capture One Pro 8 wants to entice Aperture users over with a simple yet comprehensive Library import option, which works remarkably well.

Could Capture One Pro be the ideal replacement for Aperture users? It certainly seems to be a viable contender.

Many Aperture users are moving to Lightroom. I’m one of them. I use several custom Metadata Views in Aperture’s inspector pane. But custom views are missing from Lightroom… or are they?