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There should be an ACM award for retro-computing like this. I miss Aperture so much that it's difficult to express. I dislike photo editing deeply, but for som

There should be an ACM award for retro-computing like this. I miss Aperture so much that it's difficult to express. I dislike photo editing deeply, but for some reason, the Aperture design just made sense to me, being a person who could never grok photoshop.

sbuk 3y ago
Have a look at RAW Power from Gentleman Coders. It's the closest thing I've found to Aperture. https://www.gentlemencoders.com https://www.gentlemencoders.com
alsetmusic 3y ago
I’m curious how it performs on modern hardware. When it was new (1.0) it was dog slow on the fastest tower Apple sold. I bet it’s very usable now by comparison.
- snapetom 3y ago
  I used it as long as possible with Retroactive till maybe about a year ago on an iMac with an external SSD drive. I was actively trying to fight the Adobe tax. It was fine for quite a while, but in the end, it just got too buggy. Each macOS release seemed to slow it down more, and very often, thumbnails would not render. It doesn't help that Retroactive itself doesn't seem to be actively maintained.
Xerox9213 3y ago
I’m curious if you tried Lightroom.
- inferiorhuman 3y ago
  The one thing that really put off of Aperture were the destructive edits, so in that regard Lightroom was a much better fit for me. Unfortunately while the app has been 64-bit for a while Adobe never sold a perpetually licensed version with a 64-bit installer, so I've stuck with macos 10.14. I'll be damned if I'm going to rent software from Adobe.
  - jfim 3y ago
    There are alternatives to Lightroom that have perpetual licenses, like DxO Photo Lab and Capture One.
    - Toutouxc 3y ago
      As a hobby APS-C photographer who bought DxO PhotoLab yesterday, I feel obliged to say that unless you actually make money from photography, you WILL shed a tear when paying for either.
      - mikestew 3y ago
        $229?[0] I don’t find that to be excessive. You gotta hit four digit to get my tear ducts to engage. [0] https://shop.dxo.com/en/dxo-photolab7-elite.html https://shop.dxo.com/en/dxo-photolab7-elite.html
        Toutouxc 3y ago
        I’m in a lower cost of living European country, a lot of people use $200 phones here. $230 for “some photo editing software” made even my fiancée raise her eyebrows, and she’s used to seeing me pay a lot for computer stuff.
        inferiorhuman 3y ago
        Yeah $229 is about $229 too much for something that comes bundled with a rootkit (nee Pace Interlok). Lightroom was about $140 ($80 for an upgrade) with no DRM, and pretty slick asset management.
        Toutouxc 3y ago
        Is that still true? I only found some very old forum posts, but nothing about the newer versions.
        inferiorhuman 3y ago
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jdyyc 3y ago
I don't dislike photo editing necessarily but I miss Aperture. I've never been in to photo editing and whatnot but when Aperture came out I decided to spend time learning it, organizing my library, tagging things and figuring all that stuff out. I invested a lot of time and even bought some ebooks and whatnot to learn it better. Then the EOL'd it and I just have never recovered. I have to sit down and spend time learning Lightroom, redoing all my libary and reworking my storage.... and I just have never had the desire to do it. Many of my photos are sitting in an old Aperture library tar'd up on my NAS.

sbuk 3y ago

Have a look at RAW Power from Gentleman Coders. It's the closest thing I've found to Aperture. https://www.gentlemencoders.com https://www.gentlemencoders.com

alsetmusic 3y ago

I’m curious how it performs on modern hardware. When it was new (1.0) it was dog slow on the fastest tower Apple sold. I bet it’s very usable now by comparison.

snapetom 3y ago
I used it as long as possible with Retroactive till maybe about a year ago on an iMac with an external SSD drive. I was actively trying to fight the Adobe tax. It was fine for quite a while, but in the end, it just got too buggy. Each macOS release seemed to slow it down more, and very often, thumbnails would not render. It doesn't help that Retroactive itself doesn't seem to be actively maintained.

Xerox9213 3y ago

I’m curious if you tried Lightroom.

inferiorhuman 3y ago
The one thing that really put off of Aperture were the destructive edits, so in that regard Lightroom was a much better fit for me. Unfortunately while the app has been 64-bit for a while Adobe never sold a perpetually licensed version with a 64-bit installer, so I've stuck with macos 10.14. I'll be damned if I'm going to rent software from Adobe.
- jfim 3y ago
  There are alternatives to Lightroom that have perpetual licenses, like DxO Photo Lab and Capture One.
  - Toutouxc 3y ago
    As a hobby APS-C photographer who bought DxO PhotoLab yesterday, I feel obliged to say that unless you actually make money from photography, you WILL shed a tear when paying for either.
    - mikestew 3y ago
      $229?[0] I don’t find that to be excessive. You gotta hit four digit to get my tear ducts to engage. [0] https://shop.dxo.com/en/dxo-photolab7-elite.html https://shop.dxo.com/en/dxo-photolab7-elite.html
      - Toutouxc 3y ago
        I’m in a lower cost of living European country, a lot of people use $200 phones here. $230 for “some photo editing software” made even my fiancée raise her eyebrows, and she’s used to seeing me pay a lot for computer stuff.
      - inferiorhuman 3y ago
        Yeah $229 is about $229 too much for something that comes bundled with a rootkit (nee Pace Interlok). Lightroom was about $140 ($80 for an upgrade) with no DRM, and pretty slick asset management.
        Toutouxc 3y ago
        Is that still true? I only found some very old forum posts, but nothing about the newer versions.
        inferiorhuman 3y ago

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jdyyc 3y ago

I don't dislike photo editing necessarily but I miss Aperture. I've never been in to photo editing and whatnot but when Aperture came out I decided to spend time learning it, organizing my library, tagging things and figuring all that stuff out. I invested a lot of time and even bought some ebooks and whatnot to learn it better. Then the EOL'd it and I just have never recovered. I have to sit down and spend time learning Lightroom, redoing all my libary and reworking my storage.... and I just have never had the desire to do it. Many of my photos are sitting in an old Aperture library tar'd up on my NAS.