I've been using iPhoto for about 6 years and although I really like the organizational features like events and albums, I am fed up with how slow it is. I've been looking around at alternatives and I think I've narrowed it down to Aperture and Lightroom.
I'm not a professional photographer but have recently bought a DSLR and am learning to use it. I take a lot of pictures and my current iPhoto library is about 175 GB. I'm looking for something that will allow me to organize photos in folders/events and albums/collections, rate and tag photos for easy sorting/filtering, and make edits to RAW and JPEG images. I think both will do that. Synching with photo stream would be a big plus. I would like to move away from the giant database - something about having the individual files accessible seems safer to me (I know Aperture uses the large database, but am still considering it since it has a nice interface and would be an easy transition).
I have a couple of questions for folks who have used these programs:
1) Is Aperture as slow as iPhoto? If so, that's a deal breaker for me.
2) How tough is it to transition from iPhoto to Lightroom? I would hate to have to re-organize years worth of pictures.
I'd appreciate any other input on one of these programs vs. the other.
Thanks!
I'm not a professional photographer but have recently bought a DSLR and am learning to use it. I take a lot of pictures and my current iPhoto library is about 175 GB. I'm looking for something that will allow me to organize photos in folders/events and albums/collections, rate and tag photos for easy sorting/filtering, and make edits to RAW and JPEG images. I think both will do that. Synching with photo stream would be a big plus. I would like to move away from the giant database - something about having the individual files accessible seems safer to me (I know Aperture uses the large database, but am still considering it since it has a nice interface and would be an easy transition).
I have a couple of questions for folks who have used these programs:
1) Is Aperture as slow as iPhoto? If so, that's a deal breaker for me.
2) How tough is it to transition from iPhoto to Lightroom? I would hate to have to re-organize years worth of pictures.
I'd appreciate any other input on one of these programs vs. the other.
Thanks!