What is the difference between Aperture and Adobe Lightroom?
In terms of user experience, handling, expandability (support for third-party plugins such as Photomatix), ability to seamlessly publish to Flickr/Picasa etc?Apple has a temporary action - buy an iMac and get E75 gift at app store. Aperture cost some E65 so I thought to maybe give it a try.Is Aperture worth it?
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Jim N. answered • 03/15/20
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Aperture was discontinued by Apple in 2014, so I wouldn't recommend it, it's incompatible with the current MacOS (only works in Mojave or earlier).
There is a Lightroom Flickr publish program; not sure about Picasa.
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Garrett C.
I’m almost certain that Aperture is no longer supported by Apple so, you would be using old software and I’m pretty sure they don’t sell it anymore. It used to be fairly similar to Lightroom but without the subscription cost of today’s Lightroom. If you want the most current features of a photo editor I would go with Lightroom CC or Lightroom CC classic both are excellent photo mangers/editors and are the current slandered for photo editing and photo database software. For $10 a month you can get both Lightroom and Photoshop and get the new updates for free as long as you’re a Creative Cloud member. Otherwise there’s also On1 software and Luminar 4 which don’t require a subscription and are also great and fairly responsibly priced.02/08/20