Aperture & Adobe Lightroom

Hi,
I'm considering moving from Aperture to Adobe Lightroom - do you think it's worth it? I hear the Raw Conversion is better with Lightroom?
Secondly, is it easy to move my library from one system to another? I have no idea where/how Aperture stores it's "edited" version. If it's quite complicated I might just stick with Aperture.
Thanks!
Adam

I would be the last person to tell you what to do but I will try and share my experience with you. I have been a Lightroom user since it's inception. I've also had Aperture since it's inception. Over the years I tended to shy away from Aperture because of what seemed to me to be quirk after quirk. Over the years I became quite comfortable with Lightroom's more pedantic, rather rigid (my opinion) approach to image workflow. When Aperture 3 came out I was really gung-ho to give it a try again, only to be disappointed once again with speed issues, brush issues and various other (once again) quirks. I went back to uing Lightroom exclusively.
Well, that was then and Aperture 3.4.1 (vs. Lightrrom 4.2) is NOW. In my estimation APERTURE has finally arrived!!! Now I find the new Lightroom 4.2 to be slow and pedantic. I also find it to be far less robust relative to adjustments. Aperture for me now is the better image editor. I find that I can now get mages fairly close and in some cases better than those adjusted in Capture One. I absolutely love the suttleness of adjustments and brush-on capability that you have in Aperture. I also find it to be significantly faster than Lightroom now. When I finish editing images in Aperture now they seem to be just a touch better than anything I can accomplish in Lightroom. Aperture now has the ability to really make images POP!!
I also find it interesting that I have not changed one thing relative to my hardware over the last 4 years and all of a sudden things that didn't work well a year ago e.g. Aperture has significantly improved and Lightroom has now gone the other way (in my opinion). There are still some things I would like to see in Aperture like better noise reduction and lens correction. But, since I also have PS CS6 I can work around that. But in the end I can do almost 90% of my work in Aperture (using PS CS6 for specialty work e.g. composites and other layer-based adjustments).
While I haven't yet decided to move whole image libraries to Aperture, I am at least moving all new projects into it. I've waited a long time to be able to write something like this about Aperture because over the years I guess I so wanted Aperture to succeed (I am a total Apple hardware user) but was so dissappointed. Let me be clear, I know there are many, many Lightroom lovers out there but for me (at this time) APERTURE is the DAM/Up-Front Editor of choice.
Just one person's perspective about your decision to leave Aperture. Good luck in what-ever decision you make.

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