Storage etc..Iphoto or Aperture 2.0

I have recently switched from a p/c to a mac and purchased Aperture 2.0. I am in a bit of a quandary. I like a lot of the features of Iphoto but am thinking that it is a waste of space to use both as storage sites. In general is there a preferred program for storage and working on your photos?

Either would do but Aperture is more capable overall - a pro app vs the consumer iPhoto). Since you bought Aperture it would seem sensible to use that. No advantage I can think of to using both which I think is a recipe for confusion.

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I have on my MacBook both iPhoto and Aperture and want to purchase iPhoto for iPad. If I do so, will I be able to see all my MacBook iPhoto progress (places, faces, events, etc) on the iPad app ? Via icloud or some other feature tht work like PhotoStream?

I have on my MacBook both iPhoto and Aperture and want to purchase iPhoto for iPad. If I do so, will I be able to see all my MacBook iPhoto progress (places, faces, events, etc) on the iPad app ? Via icloud or some other feature tht work like PhotoStream?

If I do so, will I be able to see all my MacBook iPhoto progress (places, faces, events, etc) on the iPad app ?
just some notes in addition to Ralphs answer: Your iPad is very useful to browse and show off your photos, i.e. the Retina iPad. You can sync to the iPad via iTunes or using the Photo Stream or a shared Photo Stream. But if you can browse and store all your photos on the iPad, will depend on the available storage on your iPad. Using iTunes you can sync events, albums, faces stacks, places stacks to your iPad. Not many metadata tags will transfer however.
See the iPhoto help on what iPhoto can actually do:
iPhoto Help: What is iPhoto? http://help.apple.com/iphoto/ipad/1.1/#blnkd2e20226
Regards
Léonie

Difference between iPhoto and Aperture and photo storage

I'm thinking about upgrading from iPhoto to Aperture but I'm a little confused about the differences in the way photo edits are handled. The iPhoto to Aperture page says that Aperture stores photo changes in one photo rather than duplicating them, therefore taking up less space. BUT they also use a unified shared library. So how is it possible for Aperture to handle edits differently if the library is now shared between the two applications?

Aperture may save you some space if you choose not to generate previews, but then you won't be able to integrate with other apps.
As Terence Devlin says. But being able to manage the Previews is quite a space saver. In Aperture you can selectively generate previews only for the photos that you want to share with other applications, and you can specify the size and quality of the previews you want. iPhoto on the other hand will always create previews for all photos, and all in very high quality. In Aperture I delete previews for redundant photos and keep the previews only for my highest ratest photos that I am likely to share with other applications and want to use as a screensaver or slideshow.
If you share your photo library between Aperture and iPhoto and edit a photo in iPhoto, then iPhoto will add a preview for this photo, even if you disabled previews in Aperture.

IPhoto vs Aperture--deleting iPhoto library

I just installed Aperture 3 and in doing so, i chose the option of copying my iPhoto library into Aperture. The instructions from Apple--available here: http://www.apple.com/aperture/iphoto-to-aperture/how.html -- say that if I then select the option to "Consolidate Masters to Library" I can safely delete my iPhoto library. But when I chose that option, I got a message that 'there are no referenced photographs." Can this be? My iPhoto Library is 124 GB; the new Aperture library is only 82 GB. Can I now safely delete the iPhoto library and have all my pictures in Aperture or is there something else I need to do. (To be safe, I have already backed up my entire iPhoto library on an external drive.
Thanks,
Rick Derevan

2. There is a subfolder in the Aperture folder called "Masters" with a whole bunch of folders in it and pictures are in the ones i opened, But I don't know if these are "masters" or "versions"--but I assume they are masters.
Aperture does not store the versions in the library as actual images - Aperture only stores instructions on how to render the version from the master. This saves disk space - you can create many versions from the same master without additional storage necessary, and this makes the lossles workflow possible. You always can undo your adjustments step by step, The version image will be created when you export the image. So if you see an image file in the library it is the master image file, if it is in the "Masters" folder.
So I think I am good to go, but all of my (former) iPhoto events show in the inspector column. And when I open a project in Aperture, and click on a photo, the event in iPhoto where the photo was originally found is highlighted in the inspector bar. So, why is the iPhoto event being highlighted if the photos are now in an Aperture library? Is that cause for worry?
Aperture recreated the iPhoto library structure in the Aperture Library as far as possible.
For each iPhoto event you now will find an Aperture project. These projects are the containers of your images. Each image has a project where it is stored. Also you should see your iPhoto albums, books, and Slideshows. and the images should be tagged with captions and keywords.
There is no cause to worry - all iPhoto images are now in Aperture; and Aperture mirrors your old library structure; this is supposed to be helpful, not to confuse you
The inspector panel in Aperure is very different from the iPhoto Inspector. Everything seems to be there twice, but these are just different views of the same items in the database.
The upper part lets you view the Library by projects, places, faces, etc., an the lower part shows the storage structure - how the library is organized by folders and projects; and if you select an image in the upper part - in projects view or Photos view, then Aperture will highlight the project where the image is contained.
I think you will find Kirby Krieger's introduction helpful to get you started:
Kirby Krieger: Re: Organizing in Aperture, concise long version:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12616449#12616449
And also the very good online manual, if you have not found it already:
Aperture 3 User Manual: http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/
Regards
Léonie

HT204655 How to have a unified Photos Library after migrated from iPhoto and Aperture?

The "HT204655: Get started with Photos for OS X" do not help. If you have previously used iPhoto and Aperture, when you "migrate" the iPhoto, then follow the steps to "migrate" the Aperture library, you end up with 5 files in your Pictures folder: Photos Library (from iPhoto), Photos Library 2(from Aperture), iPhoto Library (Not sure if can be deleted or not - of course no), Aperture Library (for some reason blank), Aperture Library 2 (Created by Photos?).
So, looks like a mess and no easy way to make a clean migration.
I've a hope that exists a solution to have a single Photos Library with the merged iPhoto and Aperture contents, like a real migration.
If I export everything (From iPhoto and Aperture) then import in the Photos in a single Library should work, but will lose all the organization, faces, etc...

You could merge libraries with iPhoto Library Manager, but I never tried this for merging Aperture 3 libraries with iPhoto 8.
Are you planning to keep all your photos in iCloud? Then consider to merge them in iCloud, but it will take a long time.
Are you using iCloud Photo Library (Beta) and have enough iCloud storage for the merged library?
Wait, till your current Photos Library has been completely uploaded to iCloud.
Then quit Photos, and launch it again, while holding down the alt/options key. Select the old iPhoto lIbrary.
When the upgrade of the old library has been finished, make this library the System Photos library (in the Photos Preferences > General).
Enable again iCloud Photo Library (Beta) in the Photos > iCloud preferences.
Now Photos will upload the new library to iCloud as well and create a merged library in iCloud. After this merged library synced with your Mac, you will have a merged Photos library.

Print quality difference between iphoto and aperture...?

when ordering books, is there a print quality difference between using iPhoto and Aperture? or are they sent to the same lab?
it's possible i may have some setting wrong, but when i order a book using iphoto, i never really feel the quality is that great. it's good, i just feel it could be a lot better. the print quality sort of reminds me of newsprint, albeit high quality newsprint. similar sized prints made at home on my basic 3-in-1 printer look better.
thanks...

Previews are what you view on your display. When you import a photo into Aperture (and I'm pretty sure iPhoto as well), your computer automatically generates a preview for quick viewing. The original images are stored in your library, but it is the preview that you see.
In Aperture, you are able to set the size and quality of these previews. When sharing photos between Aperture and iPhoto, the process is as follows:
Let's say that your images are stored in Aperture, but you also want to be able to view them in iPhoto without taking up too much room on your hard drive. Essentially, if you were to import the originals into iPhoto as well, you would be storing two exact, yet separate copies of the same image on your hard drive. As you are aware, with large images (whether JPEG's, and especially RAW) this would put quite a tax on your storage capacity after not too long.
So, you have your images in one or the other (in this case Aperture), but you want to play around with them in iPhoto. What you can do, is open iPhoto, go to the File menu and then select, Show Aperture Library. This will open a window with all of the contents of your Aperture Library. You can then drag any images you want into iPhoto . The only thing is, you are not dragging the original JPEG's, but rather, the previews of those images. If you have those previews set to a lower quality (again for capacity concerns), you will only have lower quality and lower detailed images in iPhoto. These images might not be ideal, or even suitable for printing high quality prints. The previews that you generate in Aperture though can be adjusted to be extremely high quality with no size limits.
My thinking was that since you mentioned Aperture, it sounded like you had experience with working with it and with ordering a photo book through Aperture. I guess you were saying that you ordered via iPhoto, weren't happy with the quality and were wondering if Aperture created books were better.
Anyway, if this is the case, I cannot answer that for you. I have never ordered a book through Aperture. If the quality of your images is good, you should be able to get a decent product no matter where you order it from. There is not doubt that the materials used and the print shop that does the work makes a difference, but if your images are good, you should still get a decent product through iPhoto. Perhaps iPhoto isn't the way to go though if you have had poor experiences with them.
If you haven't used Aperture yet, I would highly recommend it though aside from the photo book aspect of this thread. It is a stellar product.
I hope this helps.
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What is the best way to organize photos? iPhoto or Aperture?

I am a mom taking tons of photos of my young children. On my old PC I used to organize everything within "My Pictures" by Month & Year (May 2008). I am a very organized, linear person and don't like to change the way I do things midstream so I am having a hard time figuring out how to organize our family photos now that I have switched to a Mac with iPhoto and Aperture. In the future I hope to learn about Aperture's professional tools (which as a mom & not a professional photographer I currently do not use). I would love to take photography classes at a local community college someday...
My questions are as follows:
1) What is the better way for ME to store our photos? Should I be uploading to iPhoto or Aperture? I basically want all of my "master photo images" in the same location in an organized fashion. I am hoping to do this without clogging up my computer. At this point I am thinking at the end of each year I will burn the year's photos to a disk for save keeping. But until then...
2) Is the "library" the over-arching place where all photos are stored? In general, I am having a hard time following the hierarchy of where my photos are being stored, how to organize them and how to completely delete bad photos.
3) Can I do everything I can do in iPhoto in Aperture? Obviously I know I can do more but is it as easy to edit/fix up photos?
I have listened to/watched several tutorials on both programs and have read through many other folks' questions/answers but I am still not sure of what to do.
I really appreciate any help/advice anyone is willing to give!
Thanks!

I'm not a professional either, just a grandma with a love of digital photography who takes lots of photos. We used to live in a motorhome full time, so we had lots of opportunities to take many photos.
I personally like Aperture better than iPhoto because I like to use some of the NIK software/plugins where I can do the adjusting right in Aperture and don't always have to send the photos to PhotoShop. Also you have a bit more flexibility as to file set ups with Aperture. In iPhoto you don't have as many nesting capabilities. iPhoto is great, but pretty basic.
I had my photos set up as files on the PC, long before I got my first Mac. So I set them up the same way. I'll try to explain
In Finder:
Pictures (in side bar on left in Finder)
Folder - My Photos
2nd Folder - by year
In the year folder I have a folder by date ie: 20000722 (year,month,date) and the photos from that date in there.
Once I got to using Aperture, I have my years set up as "projects" and the dates set up as "Albums". When importing the whole set of photos into Aperture, it was easy. I highlighted the "library", then did a right mouse click and selected "import folders as projects". That imported the photos into Aperture the same way I have them in finder.
Once everything is in Aperture, and you have new photos to add, I make an album under the corresponding year and import.
I do all my photos as referenced and don't duplicate them again, as I have them backed up in a couple of other places.
IMHO you can't back up enough! Don't wait and do it only once a year! Hard drives have a way of crashing and you'll loose all your photos. Use DVD's, thumb drives, ext. hard drives or what ever works for you. But always back up.
When I take my photos off of the memory card, I immediately send a copy to the back up external HD. Once the photos are adjusted etc. I make sure I have a copy elsewhere too. Only then do I erase them off of the memory card. Might be a bit redundant, but I'm not about to loose any of my photos. When we lived in the motorhome we were always aware of the possibility of theft or fire. So I got in the habit of taking some time to reduce the size of the photos and keep them on a thumb drive that I kept out of the RV. If anyone broke in or we had a fire, I'd still have the photos. Maybe not the originals or the bigger size, but we wouldn't loose them either.
If you want more info on non professional filing, send me a PM and I can send you a photo of my file hierarchy . (suemach (at) mac (dot) com)
Allie

IPhoto 09/Aperture 2 versus iPhoto 09/Adobe Lightroom 2

Does any one have any recommendations on which combination works best?

Lightroom has no awareness of the existence of iPhoto. There is no way that it can recognise the iPhoto Library or any of the work you have done in it - albums, keywords etc. To move files or photos between the two you will need to export from one and import to the other.
Aperture recognises the iPhoto Library and there is a command there to facilitate migration from iPhoto to Aperture. This process captures your Events, Albums, keywords and so forth.
Also, with the Aperture -> Show iPhoto Library command you can import individual photos over to Aperture.
From iPhoto the Show Aperture Library command means you can access the Previews in your Aperture Library.
At heart, these three applications do the same job. Aperture and Lightroom are firmly focussed on the Pro user shooting high volumes of RAW. They both offer distinct advantages over iPhoto in processing RAW, no matter what the volume.
What iPhoto can offer both of these are - very simple books, calendars and so on and much better slideshows options.
Regards
TD

From iPhoto to Aperture

Hi there,
Aperture pre-purchase concerns and Q's
According to <http://www.apple.com/aperture/specs/> it's 15- or 17-inch PowerBook G4 with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor , and thus, my PB 17, 1.67, with 2GB of RAM is OK to run Aperture under OS 10.4.11...
My
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700:
Chipset Model: ATY,RV360M11
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
VRAM (Total): 128 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x4e50
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-xxxxx-145
Displays:
Color LCD:
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 1440 x 900
Depth: 32-bit Color
Built-In: Yes
Core Image: Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Display:
Status: No display connected
Seems to meet the Tech Specs too....
My Internal 100GB HD is almost full, and I need 5GB of disk space for application, sample projects, and tutorial... So I gotta take a lot of photos etc off my Internal and move them to External FWHD's. But that is gonna take me time..
So here are a few Q's that Apple Care couldn't answer today, but at least they steered me here!
I am using iPhoto 6.0.6 and iLife 07... Can I move my iPhoto Library to External HD, Delete it from Internal to create space for Aperture Install, and then Import that iPhoto Library into Aperture? Will the Keywords, Comments etc = Metadata survive that Import?
Here is my Ultimate Goal: Asset Management!!!! = One Maser Library, Limitless Growth or trackable photos
Just like Aperture promo says -- I want a Bird's Eye View of all my photos via Aperture, and on Internal HD keep my Select one's only, and move photos back and forth between Internal and External without losing Keywords and other Metadata?!
Is my PB17 strong enough to run such set up?
Also, if I decide to Upgrade this PB17 to Leopard, I'd need even more space for Archive and Install method of Installation... Will Aperture "survive" that transition?
When I buy MacBook Pro, how do I get my Aperture "universe" transferred from my PB17?
Would I have to buy another Aperture, or can I use it on both laptops, or move it to MacBook Pro?
I am not a pro photographer, by I do tons of point and shoot with my S500 Canon digital camera...
I want to carry around on my laptop my favorites, Select photos, and when I am back home, and plug all my external FWHD's into my PB, I want to have access to ALL my photos!
Of course, non destructive editing sounds like a dream too with the respect to disk space!
Another concern is -- how long has Aperture 1.5 been out? I'd be ticked off if I bought it now, and in less than a month, Steve Jobs announced Aperture 2.0, and I had to pay for another upgrade!
Will Aperture 1.5 play nice with iPhoto 6.0.6 and iLife 07? I'd prefer not to buy iLife 08, since I'd be getting that with MacBook Pro, but not till after Macworld 2007!
This promo video
<http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/aperture15iphoto/apple/index1.html> makes it all look really easy, and it might but...
I hope this Forum helps me make this transition. Please include any and all URL links... I am pretty eager to start with Aperture, rather than lose my Keywords and Comments in iPhoto, after I move photos in bunches off my Internal...
Is there a way to configure my profile in this Forum, so that I'd be notified whenever there is a response posted to this post! Hope yes!
Thanks in advance to all for any help!

Scott,
Thanks a lot for your reply...
Let me put this back into my present context...
I am down to 2.8 of free space on my 100GB Internal HD on PB G4, 1.67, 2GB RAM...
Can I move my iPhoto library to External, make sure it works there, then Delete it on Internal, thus freeing up space to install Aperture, then Import my Select Shots into Aperture on Internal?!
Hey.
One quick thing: the export and then import will keep your keywords, ratings,
so on and so forth. Bone up on the Aperture method of a managed library versus
a referenced import.
That will save you lots of time and frustration. I
personally do a managed library, but my organizational skills are pretty good.
I don't want stuff all over the place when I have to get to it.
Is there a PDF Manual or some place where I could read about managed library versus a referenced import.
Also, I do plan on having a Dedicated FWHD for all my photos. The idea being to have a Folder that I could back up, with ALL photos in it - Internal Selects and External
Also, bone up
on the issue of Aperture generating Previews. Trust me. If you do you'll get a
good sleep at night.
Is there a PDF Manual or some place where I could read about Aperture generating Previews.
If you do some heavy P&S shooting you're gonna grow your library quick. In
iPhoto I started splitting libraries at the 10,000 image mark. Now, a few
years after, I realize that a lot of that was unnecessary, and I'm purging the
libraries. Too much junk in there!
So, I guess that doesn't apply to me?
If you have so many of your own shots you can probably do without installing
the sample projects. Just a thought...
Are sample projects part of Aperture Tutorials?
How many systems do you have, or are going to have, to run Aperture on? PB17,
then upgrade to Leopard, then a MBP? Perhaps you could minimize the hops and
go from your PB to a kitted out MBP. That would save you a lot of
administrative hoopla and allow you time to USE Aperture, and not keep
configuring it...
I only have PB17, and I need Aperture mostly for Freeing up Space on Internal, and Organizing my Photos. Then I got to finish a bunch of other PRIORITY project. Getting MacBook Pro would be a Premature Detour. When the other projects are done, I'll get a bigger bang for my Hardware $$
Aperture 2.0! Oh, aren't we all dreaming of it. It's technology for you. Wait
for the new version (and use no version now) or use a version now and get the
new one later. I just picked up Aperture 1.5.6 after waiting from the rumor
period years ago. It's worth it, for me, because I'm using it NOW. Now m ore
abstract thought about it. When 2.0 comes out I'm waiting for Leopard
compatibility and bug fixes before jumping in.
What's not clear is how long this Aperture been out? But even though, I am thinking of waiting till after Macworld as far as Aperture and all things Mac.
Wanna configure your profile? Log in. Click on the My Settings link on the
right. Scroll down a little in the Subscription Preferences piece and click
Yes, Yes, and Immediately for the choices.
I figured it out right after posting:) Thanks. That's how your post came to me via email -- great!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!
My suggestion: get Aperture now. Learn it and use it now. Get your MBP with
iLife 08 pre-installed when you can. Rock on.
That's probably what I'll do, most likely AFTER Macworld. Till then, I could use PhotoPresenter http://www.arizona-software.ch/ which basically does what I would like to do with Aperture as far as keeping track of the Photos but FAR less deeply as far as Keywords:), never mind Non Destructive Editing, Versioning etc.
Can Aperture work with iPhoto 6.0.6. Ilife 07?
BTW, this > symbol thing works great!!! I pasted your text as a Quote in my Entourage, Office 2004, Email. Inserted my Comments, and pasted it back into my Post here!!! Looks great!!! Who knew:)?!?!
BTW, " Bone up" -- that's some funny English:)! But, let's be adult here, or I'll forget why I even posted here:):):!!!! Again THANKS for you Reply... I just want some to address my Original Post point by point, cause, as we all know, the devil is in the details..:)!
And, if they use that Quoting Scheme, as I described 2 paragraphs above, it will even more clear as far as putting it all in a context -- ala dialog...
Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Moving from DPP/iPhoto to Aperture

With the price cut I succumbed and bought Aperture and am pretty pleased with it. I love the workflow - miles better than before. Now though I have to decide how I am going to deal with all my old images. I've had my Canon 350D for about a year now and have taken 2500 images, all of which I have stored in RAW format in date named folders as imported by the Canon software. I then used Canon DPP to modify the images as necessary, generate JPEGs and then put the JPEGs into iPhoto for cataloguing, making into books etc etc. Also in the iPhoto library I have lots of pictures from my own and my friends compact cameras, totalling 4280 images.
So my question is how to use iPhoto and Aperture going forward, and what to do with my old EOS350D files. Is there any way I can somehow import these JPEGs with their organisational structure into Aperture but also associate the RAW files with it? Or should I maybe just take my best images, put them into Aperture as RAWs and ignore the others? Or take the RAWs and reorganise them? Or should I just take the whole iPhoto Library and use Aperture for RAWs, JPEGs, compact digicam pics etc etc.
BEar in mind that the way I tend to work is to just take lots of shots and keep them as a history of stuff I've done or events I've been at. I like to have a collection of shots from, say, a wedding to remind me of it. It doesn't have to be a great photo if it means something to me or people close to me. Occassionally I'll get a goodie that I might do something with and enlarge for showing to a broader audience (more through luck than judgement probably!), but really I tend to use the DSLR the way a lot of people use a compact, but get better pictures.
Any thoughts/suggestions?
Powermac G5 1.6MHz Mac OS X (10.4)

Do you intend to do further work on those old RAW
files?
Of course. At any rate, I want to have them at hand.
If so, you should have no trouble importing
them into Aperture if they were taken by a camera
supported by Aperture. They should be in your
Pictures folder in their original form.
I use my own organizational system that spans (at the moment) 7 300 GB disks. The Picutes folder is too limiting. I don't use iPhoto to import, therefore all of my RAW files exist together in a folder for each project.
If you
worked on them in DPP, then DPP will have an extra
file of instructions on what to do to the RAW in
order to produce the final image. But the RAW files
themselves will be in their original form and
Aperture will import them. ORIGINAL RAW FILES ARE
NEVER MODIFIED! There is no such thing as a "DPP
modified CR2 file".
With all due respect, yes there is such a thing, sort of. DPP will append the recipe data to the end of the RAW file (embedded within the file, but not within the raw data itself). Therefore, you could say that the raw file has been changed, in that it's been added to.
Aperture will not import the DPP
recipe, nor will Aperture import the RAW file as
modified by the DPP recipe.
Do you mean to look as modified by the recipe? That is understood and expected. Fortunately Aperture seems to have a similar look compared to DPP.
My concern however, is whether Aperture will recognize/import CR2 files that have been handled by another raw converter "modified" i.e., had recipe data embedded within them. I'm not concerned that Aperture will not interpret the recipe files and give a similar look (I should have clarified that in the first post).
Maybe I should post this as a new question to avoid hijacking the original questions raised by Phil (but I would be interested in hearing from you Phil - or anyone who uses DPP).
Ron
G5 2.3DP 4GB RAM & iBook G4 12" Mac OS X (10.4.6) Canon EOS-1D II N cameras, DPP & Photo Mechanic 4.4.2

Is it possible to keep both iPhoto and Aperture on the same Mac

I would like to use both IPhoto (for day by day pictures) and Aperture (for pictures made with my SLR in Raw format).
Is anybody able to advice me about this opportunity?

You can keep both Applications (iPhoto and Aperture) on the same computer and separate libraries for iPhoto and Aperture; images from both libraries will/should be available in other Applications from the Media Browser. In the long run, after you get accustomed to working Aperture, you will find it more convenient to migrate all your images to Aperture. Aperture has the more efficient storage strategy, you need less disk space to store multiple versions of the same image in Aperture than in iPhoto, and Aperture is the more versatile tool.
It is easy to migrate iPhoto libraries to Aperture, but that is a one way road, if you want to export back to iPhoto, you can export your images, but not all of your library structure.

Can I use both iPhoto and Aperture on the same library?

I like some of the features of iPhoto (like faces and places) but prefer to work in Aperture for its rich tool content. Is there any way I can use both iPhoto and Aperture on the same library? Or, import images from Aperture into iPhoto?
Thanks much!
John

I think you may have answered a question I have with the above, but to be sure here is what I would like to do. I currently have iPhoto09 with about 50,000 pictures in it, which seems too much for it to manage. I would like to use Aperture, which I understand is better for managing a large number of photos, but still have iPhoto available to make slide shows, etc. for our AppleTV. Would the process you described above work for that?
Thank you

Add both iPhoto and Aperture libraries

Can I upload both my iPhoto and Aperture libraries to Photos (after the initial install). I found out after installation that I could have used the option key to import multiple libraries. But after initial install, I cannot seem to add a library, just individual photos.

Photos cannot merge libraries. It just can switch between libraries, when you hold down the options key while launching Photos.
You could use Aperture to merge your iPhoto Library into the Aperture Library (see Aperture 3.3: How to use Aperture to merge iPhoto libraries).
This would require compatible Aperture and iPhoto versions.
After merging both libraries with Aperture launch Photos with the alt/options key held down and select the merged library. Photos will create an upgraded copy of the library. Now you can delete the previous Photos library and enable the new library as Photos System Library in the Photos Preferences > General.
Are you using iCloud Photo Library with Photos? With enough storage you could try to merge the libraries in iCloud, but uploading from several libraries will not preserve the faces.

Use both iPhoto and Aperture with one library-best practice?

I'd like to use both iPhoto and Aperture, but have both programs use/update just one photo library. I have the latest versions of both programs, but was wondering if the optimum approach would be to:
a)point Aperture to the existing iPhoto library and use that as the library for both programs
or
b)import the entire iPhoto library into a new Aperture library, delete the iPhoto library, and point iPhoto to use the Aperture library.
I should point out that up to now I've been using iPhoto exclusively, and have close to 20K photos in the iPhoto library, tagged with Faces, organized into various albums, etc; if that makes a difference...
Appreciate any advice!
Thanks,
Dave

Thanks Frank! I'll try it that way.
Appreciate the help!

Best way to use BOTH iPhoto and Aperture?

I have been using iPhoto for 2 years and Aperture for one day! I'd like to continue using iPhoto for snapshots (where i can do minimal editing, tagging etc) but use Aperture when I need more robust management (editing hundreds of vacation photos and creating multi media slideshows).
What is the best way to do this?
Do I import everything into iPhoto and then import selected files / folders again into Aperture - which would mean 2 copies on my hard drive of anything I import into Aperture. I rather not use that much hard drive space if there is a better option.
Thanks for any advice.

You might want to take a look at this thread which address many of the same issues you're asking about here. In it I described how I made the switch from iPhoto to Aperture. It may be of some use to you.
Having bought Aperture, does iPhoto still have its uses?
regards

HT204414 How to import both iPhoto and Aperture library to iCloud Photo Library (Photos app)

Hi all,
Based on the article here (Designate a System Photo Library in Photos - Apple Support) has anyone tried to bring both an iPhoto and Aperture library into iCloud Photo Library so that both libraries are available as one in iCloud and form the one Photos app library rather than being seen as separate libraries. I don't want the two separated as I have 200GB's of space in iCloud which is plenty to hold the two's collective space of about 40GB's.
It seems as though the procedure is pretty simple.
First of all set one of your libraries as the System Photo Library, this will happen naturally with setting up Photos app for the first time. I chose iPhoto as the original library.
Let this library upload all it's photo's to iCloud over a few minutes, hours, days etc.
When finished, enter your other library by closing Photos app and reopening while holding down the Option key (usually Alt). In this case I now opened the Aperture library that it had found.
Under Preferences > iCloud set this library as the System Photo Library and in turn it will have the ability to upload to iCloud.
When it's finished I suppose you will have both iPhoto AND Aperture pictures in the one iCloud Photo Library.
At least I hope the above makes sense.
Anybody already tried this with good / bad results, let us know here.

found it here - 'If you designate a new library as the System Photo Library and then turn on iCloud Photo Library, the photos and videos in the new library will merge with those already in your iCloud Photo Library. If you want to keep the contents of your photo libraries separate, don’t turn on iCloud Photo Library for more than one library in Photos.'
That bit seems clear. You can merge photos from different libraries by making them 'designated' first .
BUT this means that Photos app only shows you library A , or library B, depending on which one you have opened , but Icloud library contains photos from Both library A and library B .
is this correct ?
and if so, does it not get a but confusing ?!?

Storage etc..Iphoto or Aperture 2.0

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