Comments on: How-To: Move Photos From Aperture to iPhoto

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By: tim

tim — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:18:09 +0000

@jeremy: did you manage to solve your problem?

i am also interested in moving from aperture to iphoto. simply because while i had thought that i will find the power of aperture worthwhile, i am realizing that if you are not a pro that power can be detrimental in how it keeps you from doing simple modifications and sharing.

what i do want to retain – is the power to move from one platform to another in the future. therefore it is important that i retain hard disk image structure. not sure how i can do that in iphoto.

need to think some more about this aperture to iphoto move.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:36:41 +0000

One more follow up. I’ve tried both methods with no success, I suspect because my Aperture library has almost 10,000 images.

When I export, Aperture crashes usually after several hundred images, at which point I’ve got to find where I left off and continue. A huge pain. And very time consuming.

When I simply drag and drop my Aperture library into iPhoto, iPhoto tried really, really hard. But it inevitably crashes after about 30 mins of working full on. Then I can’t actually restart iPhoto – it hangs, presumably because of its library importing overload.

All of this is on a brand new MBP with top of the line specs, so hardware isn’t the problem.

Suggestions on going forward …

By: jeremy

jeremy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:50:26 +0000

Very helpful post. Timely too. I’ve just bought a new MBP and am using this opportunity to go back to iPhoto after a 2 year romance with Aperture. But I’ve got some questions:

1. What happens if I “pull” the Aperture library into iPhoto using “import to library”? Will the effect be the same as the drag & drop, i.e. a disorganized library? Or will it preserve existing projects, folders, albums, etc..

2. Whichever solution I choose, what will happen to the metadata associated with my images? Will any of this be preserved in iPhoto?

3. Also, if I export versions, then my masters are gone forever (assuming I don’t keep both libraries active), correct? If I export masters, I’ve got to re-do all of my edits, including crops and image adjustments, correct?

Thanks.

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By: Adobees

Adobees — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:50:36 +0000

Aperture is very different in the way that manage your photo library than iPhoto. iPhoto from the other no like because even if you choose “do not copy” the image in the iphoto folder, it will copy them when you edit them or even the auto rotate faction of my digital camera is on.

By: Adobees

Adobees — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:46:48 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial

By: Torbjørn Vik Lunde

Torbjørn Vik Lunde — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:57:23 +0000

Indeed, it’s about time we there was an Aperture update!

By: Tom Reestman

Tom Reestman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:02:00 +0000

MrMojo,

“Aperture also offers easy to create MobileMe galleries that can be synced.”

I had mine there for a while. But I swapped them to iPhoto because it also does Flickr, and because for either function I now launch a lightweight app instead of the “heavier” Aperture.

“Since Aperture images are accessible from iPhoto, why not leave them where they are and simply use iPhoto when you want to use a feature Aperture currently lacks?”

Because the other way around works just as well, and has the advantage of normally working with the faster app. I don’t need Aperture’s “power” that often, so I’d rather use iPhoto as the main app and just pull stuff into Aperture as needed.

By: MrMojo

MrMojo — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:06:00 +0000

I don’t understand why someone would want to move all their images from Aperture to iPhoto… Since Aperture images are accessible from iPhoto, why not leave them where they are and simply use iPhoto when you want to use a feature Aperture currently lacks?

BTW, Aperture also offers easy to create MobileMe galleries that can be synced.

By: Mia Andersen

Mia Andersen — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:39:37 +0000

Well for me it still seems like these apps have two different audiences.
We’re primary using Aperture for location shots and so the face rec. aren’t really a must-have. Also working in a Mac Pro environment under 10.5.7 it feels like Aperture keeps a decent speed, but I agree with you guys that we need a major update soon :)

By: David Appleyard

David Appleyard — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:18:42 +0000

That would certainly be welcome. Although part of me hopes they don’t add the latest iPhoto features just after I’ve swapped everything across…

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:02:53 +0000

Well now that FinalCut and Logic have been given the update love, it would be nice if Aperture were right around the corner.
I attended a Photoshop and Ligthroom usergroup this past week, and was a little green after the Lightroom demo…

By: Tom Reestman

Tom Reestman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:57:57 +0000

I got on board with Aperture when they brought iPhoto-type features, such as the All Projects view, to that app.

Still, I find I need Aperture’s power a lot less, especially since the last iPhoto update added Aperture’s excellent Definition and Vibrancy functionality. I love the drag and drop ease of Flickr and MobileMe galleries in iPhoto — especially how it keeps them in sync.

Add to this that Apple seems to have forgotten about Aperture and, like you, I’m using iPhoto most of the time.

By: randal lyons

randal lyons — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:31:50 +0000

It is time for an Aperture update! I to have found myself using iphoto once again because of the face ident and maps features.