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Yup, and I am still a bit salty Apple discontinued Aperture, which was to iPhoto as Final Cut Pro is to iMovie. I am paying for Lightroom Classic and there are

by Y-bar 5y ago

Yup, and I am still a bit salty Apple discontinued Aperture, which was to iPhoto as Final Cut Pro is to iMovie. I am paying for Lightroom Classic and there are still UI idiosyncrasies that makes no sense to me that just clicked in Aperture (Lightroom CC? Let's not even talk about that version...)

Ancapistani 5y ago
Me too. I'm using Lightroom CC, because I'd migrated away from Lightroom Classic several years before. I can't begin to understand why things like "open selected images as layers in Photoshop" _still_ isn't possible in Lightroom CC. It works really well on my iPad Pro, though, and gives me 90%+ of the features I need for my workflow there. I just wish they provided an accessible scripting environment that I could use to automate things.
- Dracophoenix 5y ago
  What stopped you from sticking with Classic or moving to Davinci Resolve?
  - c0nsumer 5y ago
    Resolve? How is that a replacement for Lightroom Classic? I've been looking at CaptureOne myself as a replacement...
    - modoc 5y ago
      Do it. CaptureOne is the only thing I've found after Aperture that I like. Still miss Aperture, but CaptureOne is great, and they improve it frequently.
      - c0nsumer 5y ago
        I've been dragging my feet because I Keep getting a friends and family discount on Lightroom Classic from an Adobe employee friend. But I really, really should... If I can also move away from Illustrator for map making, I'll be set. (Read: I really need to spend some time with Affinity Designer to be sure it meets my needs, then just cut the Adobe cord.)
    - Dracophoenix 5y ago
      My mistake
  - marcolussetti 5y ago
    I haven't tried in a while, but CaptureOne has very limited lens support compared to Lightroom. I wonder if that's changed.
- webmobdev 5y ago
  DarkTable - https://www.darktable.org/ https://www.darktable.org/ - is a free and opensource alternative to Lightroom but the UI takes some time getting used to.
bayindirh 5y ago
I really miss Aperture. It was a very nice piece of software, however I'm using Darktable in these days, and it's seriously no slouch either.
spacedcowboy 5y ago
As someone who designed the replacement database layer (that literally improved the speed of access by an order of magnitude, after I promised the VP it would do in an off-the-cuff meeting, and my director face-palmed at hearing me say it) and then managed the new graphics engine team, I feel your pain. Aperture was fundamentally too small a market for Apple to justify keeping a 'pro-app' team working on it. The concept was a high-cost semi-pro feature-set, and the market soon decided it cost too much and the price had to fall. Once that ball started rolling, the doom was set. Still, I went on to do more interesting things at Apple - the latest being writing the client<-->server team bridge for 'Hide My Email' to let apps like Safari and Mail integrate into the server-side anonymous-email-mapping-to-a-known-address facility. Lots of cool tech in there, under the skin.
- kranke155 5y ago
  The reason why I love apple is exactly because the tech is there, but “under the skin”. They are probably using ML or AI whatever to get this new Magic Movie thing working. But that’s not their press release, unlike Google which would be parroting this as a major tech thing. Apple goes for the human.

by Y-bar 5y ago

Ancapistani 5y ago

Me too. I'm using Lightroom CC, because I'd migrated away from Lightroom Classic several years before. I can't begin to understand why things like "open selected images as layers in Photoshop" _still_ isn't possible in Lightroom CC. It works really well on my iPad Pro, though, and gives me 90%+ of the features I need for my workflow there. I just wish they provided an accessible scripting environment that I could use to automate things.

Dracophoenix 5y ago
What stopped you from sticking with Classic or moving to Davinci Resolve?
- c0nsumer 5y ago
  Resolve? How is that a replacement for Lightroom Classic? I've been looking at CaptureOne myself as a replacement...
  - modoc 5y ago
    Do it. CaptureOne is the only thing I've found after Aperture that I like. Still miss Aperture, but CaptureOne is great, and they improve it frequently.
    - c0nsumer 5y ago
      I've been dragging my feet because I Keep getting a friends and family discount on Lightroom Classic from an Adobe employee friend. But I really, really should... If I can also move away from Illustrator for map making, I'll be set. (Read: I really need to spend some time with Affinity Designer to be sure it meets my needs, then just cut the Adobe cord.)
  - Dracophoenix 5y ago
    My mistake
- marcolussetti 5y ago
  I haven't tried in a while, but CaptureOne has very limited lens support compared to Lightroom. I wonder if that's changed.
webmobdev 5y ago
DarkTable - https://www.darktable.org/ https://www.darktable.org/ - is a free and opensource alternative to Lightroom but the UI takes some time getting used to.

bayindirh 5y ago

I really miss Aperture. It was a very nice piece of software, however I'm using Darktable in these days, and it's seriously no slouch either.

spacedcowboy 5y ago

As someone who designed the replacement database layer (that literally improved the speed of access by an order of magnitude, after I promised the VP it would do in an off-the-cuff meeting, and my director face-palmed at hearing me say it) and then managed the new graphics engine team, I feel your pain. Aperture was fundamentally too small a market for Apple to justify keeping a 'pro-app' team working on it. The concept was a high-cost semi-pro feature-set, and the market soon decided it cost too much and the price had to fall. Once that ball started rolling, the doom was set. Still, I went on to do more interesting things at Apple - the latest being writing the client<-->server team bridge for 'Hide My Email' to let apps like Safari and Mail integrate into the server-side anonymous-email-mapping-to-a-known-address facility. Lots of cool tech in there, under the skin.

kranke155 5y ago
The reason why I love apple is exactly because the tech is there, but “under the skin”. They are probably using ML or AI whatever to get this new Magic Movie thing working. But that’s not their press release, unlike Google which would be parroting this as a major tech thing. Apple goes for the human.