App: Apple Aperture

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.

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.

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

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?