With the eventual demise of Aperture, I and some others have mentioned that there really is no need to panic or act quickly. Mainly because we really should take the time to allow the market to adjust … and wait to see what our options actually are without speculation of what may come to pass.
Today, Phase One introduced Capture 1 Pro v8 … with along with many new features … and … an Aperture migration tool …
From Cnet article:
“COLOGNE, Germany – Phase One has released a new version of its Capture One Pro image-editing software, adding a host of features and throwing out a lifeline to users worried about the demise of Apple’s Aperture.
Capture One Pro 8 includes the ability to import photos from Apple’s software, maintaining organization into projects, folders, and albums; crop and rotation settings; metadata including captions, colors, ratings, and keywords; and perhaps most important, editing changes for brightness, highlights, shadows, definition, saturation, and black-and-white conversion.”
I am not endorsing C1 or any other option to Aperture … only pointing out that there is time, there is also interest by other developers to serve Aperture users and that we don’t have to be hasty in making plans for the future. We can take the time to properly evaluate all our options.