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Will Aperture still run on High Sierra, or is Photos already a viable replacement?

Photos will never be a viable replacement for the full Aperture professional use cases -- they have different goals.

Aperture might or might not run on HS (not sure), but holding to it until Photos catches up is not very good strategy, at some point it will just stop working (and it's not getting any new fixes, updates, etc).

Better move to Lightroom or something similar.

> Better move to Lightroom or something similar.

I don't want to rent software, and I don't want to install the dreaded Adobe installer. What other good alternatives are there? Darktable doesn't pass the test.

Capture One is an alternative, common with those using Sony Alpha

I was an big Aperture user too, and put off the move a long time. I installed and edited the same photos in everything.

You either take the feature-set hit and switch to Apple Photos ( which does a great job with basic tweaks ), or you switch to Lightroom. Everything else is way below par. Your photos just won't anywhere near as good.

Which presents an opportunity for someone like Pixelmator or Affinity to make a photo management app + their photo editing tools.

Personally, I don't want a "photo management" app, I want an app that is very good at batch processing, works over NFS drives, and doesn't use "projects" and "libraries".

Basically I want a GUI version of ImageMagick.

Usually after one uses non-destructive editing (a la Aperture and Lightroom) everything else is like medieval times.

Not me.

Plus non-destructive editing does not preclude a non-IDE, non-library based workflow.

Sadly, I don't think the market is that big. I think Lightroom is going to monopolize it unless they get really lazy.

Capture One Pro, and various subpar packages like ACDSee (I think they're still on Mac with a port).

So, basically Lightroom.

I'll try it again, last time I liked it even less than Lightroom.

Do think Darktable is the best bet unfortunately - donate/contribute/cross-fingers-hope-for-the-best!?

Using Affinity Photo after using Lightroom after using Aperture. It's pretty good, actually, and enough for what I do.

I’m sure it still will run. I ran iMovie 2009 with no problems.

I found that Capture One is a decent replacement.

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