Good info Apple Aperture is being discontinued. Adobe is working on a conversion program for Lightroom. http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/08/04/adobe-publishes-how-to-guide-for-migrating-from-apples-aperture-to-lightroom 🚶 > On Aug 5, 2014, at 9:04 PM, Gerhard Kuhn <gerhardk@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > The only thing that is Lightroom specific is the catalogue it creates, this > consists of thumbnails, the keywords, and since you can store photos on > multiple hard drives it remembers which hard drive the photo associated with > a thumbnail is stored. I have use Lightroom since it was a beta program and > felt it made my photography filing much easier. I still use iPhoto for > accessing my photo stream but thats about it. I think Apple’s Aperture > program is capable of many of the same features except it stores the photos > much like iPhoto which is why I chose the Adobe product. > > Gerhard > gerhardk@xxxxxxx > > <bug.gif> > >> On Aug 5, 2014, at 8:52 PM, Frank <fbirch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Sounds great Of course you must purchase Lightroom ( from Adobe if >> probably will become a rental like Photoshop) >> If the photos do not reside within the Lightroom environment then you be ok >> for backups with time machine plus another.. >> >> The key is to be organized and consistent in your application. >> >> Cheers f >