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    Apple Aperture 2 question

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Bwen, Feb 16, 2009.

  1. Bwen

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    I have used Aperture for quite sometime now and have quite a few thousand photos in the Aperture library from my DSLR, I just installed Lightroom as a trial to give it a whirl and see how it compares to Aperture. My question is, how do I import all the photos that are in my Aperture library to Lightroom? I haven't seem to found a way and links from a google search suggest that the photos that are imported through Aperture are stuck in the Aperture format, so I can only view them through the program itself not as an individual file in Finder, is this true?
     
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    Good question. I have never used LR except on PC. Can LR import from iPhoto Library? If yes, then one workaround would be to import your Aperture Library into iPhoto and then from there to LR. Importing from Aperture into iPhoto is very easy.
     
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    If you go to your pictures folder, right click on aperture library ->show package contents, and then the same for the .approject file where your pictures are kept, you can then access all of your pictures. Although each picture is in an individual folder, so thats kind hard to do if you have alot of pictures.
     
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    That's the thing I'm not sure I haven't really used LR enough to find out, I don't think you're able to import from another library though.

    Yeah, I have well over 8000 images stored in my Aperture library so doing one by one would be a big pain.

    Is this a flaw from Aperture? Using the program to backup/store my images and now I don't even have full access to them? Only through the actual program itself.
     
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    Cant you export all your images? and then import them into lightroom? File>Export>Master ? select all of your images from a project and do that?

    I wouldnt say its a flaw with aperture. Both programs are competitors, so I wouldnt expect them to work well together. Though Adobe could have incorporated a import from aperture option, sure it wouldnt have been that hard.
     
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    That's what I'm doing now, but you can only do by projects so I have a couple hundred project folders which might take a while but I guess there's nothing else I can do. I'm probably jumping in the deep end and buying Lightroom now, $609 AUD :eek: I hope it's worth it
     
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