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iPhoto replacement - Aperture vs. Lightroom
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<blockquote data-quote="kliles" data-source="post: 1589202" data-attributes="member: 328261"><p>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. </p><p></p><p>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).</p><p></p><p>I have a couple of questions for folks who have used these programs:</p><p>1) Is Aperture as slow as iPhoto? If so, that's a deal breaker for me.</p><p>2) How tough is it to transition from iPhoto to Lightroom? I would hate to have to re-organize years worth of pictures.</p><p></p><p>I'd appreciate any other input on one of these programs vs. the other.</p><p></p><p>Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kliles, post: 1589202, member: 328261"] 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! [/QUOTE]
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