Should I consider moving from Apple Photos to something like Exposure? Exposure now supported the Leica Q’s RAW files and would be more cross platform.

  • Investigae Unbound for photo mangement.
    • http://simplicitybliss.com/my-photo-workflow-with-dropbox-hazel-icloud

RAW Photography

Photo Management

TODO: Try Unbound

Try Mosaic see their blog.

In Aperture

Scripts: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/10/photo-management-via-the-finder/ http://tumblr.caseyliss.com/post/63274386763 https://gist.github.com/cliss/6854904

Export to folders via phoshare.

Library Issues / Troubleshooting

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805

Press and hold the Option and Command keys as you start Aperture.

Defer preview generation

If Aperture does not open, it may help to defer creation of previews. Press the Shift key immediately after you start Aperture to prevent preview generation for that session. If a damaged image in your library is preventing normal opening, this may allow you to start Aperture.

  1. try generating all thumbnails, and,
  2. generate previews, holding the option key down whilst in the photos menu.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2447380

Force Aperture to rebuild thumbnails In reply to Clint Thayer, Dec 19, 2005 This seems to work pretty well, if you notice that some of your thumbnails in a projct are incorrect (do not match the picture):

First, close Aperture.

Go into Finder and find your Aperture library (look in Aperture preferences to see where it lives).

Now right-click on that library and select “Show Package Contents”.

This will open up a new finder window, with a file for every project. Go to the project file that you have your wedding photos in, right click and select “Show Package Contents” again.

Now you’ll get yet another finder window - in here you’ll see a directory (where all your pictures in this project live BTW), and a few other files. One of them is named “AP.Thumbnails”.

Take that AP.Thumbnails file, and move it to your desktop. (to keep in case of issues).

Now open up Aperture again (you can leave the Finder windows open). Go into the project with the wedding photos, and select the project management view. At first all of your thumbnails will be blank. But after a little while you’ll notice that it is re-creating all of them (you do not need to visit each one to have this happen). This may take some time… but when done, hopefully they will all be correct and you will see a new AP.Thumbnails file in that same project directory. I would avoid doing anything else in Aperture until the thumbnail rebuild is complete - scroll around the project management view to see progress.

If everything is to your satisfaction, you can just throw away that AP.Thumbnails file on your desktop. If something happens (and I really can’t think of what would go wrong) just close Aperture and move the file back.

Training

Plenty of Apple training videos here.

iPhone > Aperture

TimeMachine disk has 2x copies of iPhone to extract 2012 & work from there.

Resources

Also consider this Open Photo application.

Photos

Currently stored on MBA but … I would like to move from iPhone to Aperture and in parallel move to multiple libraries on a per-year basis. May also have a scratch library for eBay photos, screen saver images etc. A side effect of this will be remove the necessity of maintaining all pictures on the MBA. At this point I will move each years library to a (off site) BluRay backup.

http://www.cultofmac.com/174055/learn-the-best-ways-to-use-iphoto-for-ipad/

Or use DropBox & here.

In Lightroom

Lua

Lightroom uses Lua 5.1 for it’s batch language, time to do some learning…

http://thesweetsetup.com/apps/best-photo-editing-app-mac/

I’m upto here with online learning.

Could this be the future?

http://www.cultofmac.com/223651/how-to-make-lightroom-and-iphoto-libraries-both-exist-together-on-your-ipad-feature/

http://www.cultofmac.com/177314/sync-your-lightroom-collections-with-your-ipad-automatically-how-to-2/

http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/collection-publisher

http://lightroomsolutions.com/articles/migrating-from-aperture-to-lightroom-where-do-i-begin/

http://www.lightroomforums.net/showthread.php?15266-Moving-from-Aperture-3-to-Lightroom-4

http://lightroomsolutions.com/articles/migrating-from-aperture-to-lightroom-where-do-i-begin/

http://photofocus.com/2012/05/29/heres-why-im-seriously-considering-a-permanent-switch-to-adobe-lightroom/


Q: Why am I thinking of this again?
A: Because I have a bad feeling about iCloud & Apple Photos in particular

I’m considering something like this.

1: Photos taken in RAW or HEIC

RAW Photography

In Aperture

Scripts: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/10/photo-management-via-the-finder/ http://tumblr.caseyliss.com/post/63274386763 https://gist.github.com/cliss/6854904

Export to folders via phoshare.

Library Issues / Troubleshooting

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805

Press and hold the Option and Command keys as you start Aperture.

Defer preview generation

If Aperture does not open, it may help to defer creation of previews. Press the Shift key immediately after you start Aperture to prevent preview generation for that session. If a damaged image in your library is preventing normal opening, this may allow you to start Aperture.

  1. try generating all thumbnails, and,
  2. generate previews, holding the option key down whilst in the photos menu.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2447380

Force Aperture to rebuild thumbnails In reply to Clint Thayer, Dec 19, 2005 This seems to work pretty well, if you notice that some of your thumbnails in a projct are incorrect (do not match the picture):

First, close Aperture.

Go into Finder and find your Aperture library (look in Aperture preferences to see where it lives).

Now right-click on that library and select “Show Package Contents”.

This will open up a new finder window, with a file for every project. Go to the project file that you have your wedding photos in, right click and select “Show Package Contents” again.

Now you’ll get yet another finder window - in here you’ll see a directory (where all your pictures in this project live BTW), and a few other files. One of them is named “AP.Thumbnails”.

Take that AP.Thumbnails file, and move it to your desktop. (to keep in case of issues).

Now open up Aperture again (you can leave the Finder windows open). Go into the project with the wedding photos, and select the project management view. At first all of your thumbnails will be blank. But after a little while you’ll notice that it is re-creating all of them (you do not need to visit each one to have this happen). This may take some time… but when done, hopefully they will all be correct and you will see a new AP.Thumbnails file in that same project directory. I would avoid doing anything else in Aperture until the thumbnail rebuild is complete - scroll around the project management view to see progress.

If everything is to your satisfaction, you can just throw away that AP.Thumbnails file on your desktop. If something happens (and I really can’t think of what would go wrong) just close Aperture and move the file back.

Training

Plenty of Apple training videos here.

iPhone > Aperture

TimeMachine disk has 2x copies of iPhone to extract 2012 & work from there.

Resources

Also consider this Open Photo application.

Photos

Currently stored on MBA but … I would like to move from iPhone to Aperture and in parallel move to multiple libraries on a per-year basis. May also have a scratch library for eBay photos, screen saver images etc. A side effect of this will be remove the necessity of maintaining all pictures on the MBA. At this point I will move each years library to a (off site) BluRay backup.

http://www.cultofmac.com/174055/learn-the-best-ways-to-use-iphoto-for-ipad/

Or use DropBox & here.

In Lightroom

Lua

Lightroom uses Lua 5.1 for it’s batch language, time to do some learning…

http://thesweetsetup.com/apps/best-photo-editing-app-mac/

I’m upto here with online learning.

Could this be the future?

  • http://www.cultofmac.com/223651/how-to-make-lightroom-and-iphoto-libraries-both-exist-together-on-your-ipad-feature/
  • http://www.cultofmac.com/177314/sync-your-lightroom-collections-with-your-ipad-automatically-how-to-2/
  • http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/collection-publisher
  • http://lightroomsolutions.com/articles/migrating-from-aperture-to-lightroom-where-do-i-begin/
  • http://www.lightroomforums.net/showthread.php?15266-Moving-from-Aperture-3-to-Lightroom-4
  • http://lightroomsolutions.com/articles/migrating-from-aperture-to-lightroom-where-do-i-begin/
  • http://photofocus.com/2012/05/29/heres-why-im-seriously-considering-a-permanent-switch-to-adobe-lightroom/