i miss Aperture

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2021-09-07 22:02:22

Finally had to buy a new MacBook Pro. I love it accept my previous Apple laptop was equipped with Aperture. I miss the simplicity of organixing large archives of photos. I miss all of the metadata controls and being able to add or remove information from each image.
Is Pixelmator intended to replace Aperture?
or is it a Photoshop replacement?
Are there any means of organizing many many projects into categories and folders?
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2021-09-08 02:33:22

Unfortunately, Pixelmator Pro is intended to replace Photoshop, not Aperture. And it has no library/organisation features whatsoever! Another option (which you've probably already heard of) is iPhoto, which has some pretty cool management features such as Smart Albums, where you can select photos based on Metadata. Other options I can think of at the top of my head are Luminar AI, Polar Pro and Adobe Lightroom, all of which are subscription based, possibly a downside.