Ondrej Holzman What has been clear since June of last year is now confirmed for the second time and definitively. Once Apple releases the final version of its new app in the spring Photos, will stop selling the existing professional photography software Aperture.
The introduction of a new photo management and editing app for Mac was one of the more surprising parts of last year's developer conference, and even more surprising was the announcement that Apple stops developing two existing applications for photo management and editing: Aperture and iPhoto.
Now this fact Apple confirmed even on his website, where on the Aperture page he writes: "Once Photos for OS X is released this spring, Aperture will no longer be available for purchase in the Mac App Store." to buy for 80 euros, but the days of this popular tool are officially numbered.
For iPhoto, which Photos will also replace, Apple has not yet explicitly stated its end, but it is highly likely that this application will also end definitively. Photos are primarily iPhoto's successors, while existing Aperture users may miss some features in the new software based on the iOS and cloud experience.
Many professional photographers may thus resort to solutions from Adobe (Ligthroom) and some are now also betting on the new Photo app from Affinity, which, of course, does not offer a full-fledged replacement, but is focused exclusively on editing and working with photos. More advanced editing options will probably be missing in Photos, at least initially.
Photo by Affinity is completely different from Aperture/Lightroom.
Exactly, but the random generator sometimes writes the article itself ;-).
Ondřej, I recommend first turning on Aperture and then Affinity photo. "It's not a different league, it's a completely different competition"
Yes, I know about it, but here it was thought mainly from the editing side. But just to be sure, I edited it in the text to make it clear right away.
In terms of editing, the two programs are also not in the same league, on the contrary, Photo (but e.g. Photoshop Elements) has a suggestion there.
As far as I know, Photos should replace both iPhoto and Aperture, and that's because it's supposed to be a modular app, so I'll buy modules for the money and I have additional functions from the ground up, which should replace iPhoto comprehensively (although I'm afraid that Apple won't take it a little in its own way and so that we don't have to buy additional modules to the level of the current iPhoto.)
photos is supposed to be better iPhoto, but worse aperture .. so not so much a replacement for the user's aperture but rather a downgrade ..
On the other hand, they are consistent, basically they have already downgraded all their professional applications like this and are successfully aiming to become a company for ordinary consumers and dullards and professionals to get used to or drag on.
This illustrates the fact that although they made a great Macpro, they didn't bother to make a monitor for it...