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For any of you out there who are like me and move between PC and Mac for your workflow, or those who are considering migrating your workflow completely from the Windows world to the Mac environment, here is a simple step-by-step guide for moving over your most important asset.
Jan 17, 2020 Adobe Lightroom Classic version 5.7 and later includes a built-in tool for migrating Aperture libraries to Lightroom catalogs. If you’ve upgraded to macOS Catalina, learn about compatibility with Lightroom Classic. When an Aperture library is migrated to Lightroom, your library's organization, metadata, and image adjustments are preserved, with some exceptions. May 30, 2019 How to use Automator to export Lightroom photos to Photos for Mac. Click on File in the Automator App menu in the Menu bar. Click on Save in the drop-down menu. You could also hit the Command + S keyboard shortcut to save the rule. Select a folder to. On a PC use CTRL – click, on a Mac use Command – click. Do this anywhere on each photo you want to import. It will highlight the box (thumbnail) of each photo, but it will not put a check in the checkbox. Now that you have all your photos selected, all you need to do is click the little checkbox on one of those selected photos (it doesn’t matter which one) and the checkbox will be checked on all selected photos.
I am a hybrid. Having spent many, many years, including my early photography years fully inside of a Windows environment, using a PC is pretty much second nature to me. That's not to say that Macs are particularly complicated. But working on a Mac for me is a bit like speaking a second language. I can get my point across but it takes a second to do the translation in my head before I can find the correct words.
As my career developed and I moved from shooting for fun to shooting for profit, I also moved away from the small display on the back of my camera to shooting tethered to a laptop at least 99 percent of the time. With Mac being pretty much the standard among my commercial clientele, I invested in a MacBook Pro, loaded it with Capture One, and never looked back. Tethering allowed my work to move forward tenfold. Not only does it allow me to communicate with my clients in real time, it also gives me a better view of what I am actually creating and the gives me the confidence to walk off set knowing for sure that I have the shot.
But, while tethering to my Mac allowed me to move my photography forward leaps and bounds, my understanding of how Macs handle files was somewhat limited. This was especially important when it came to working with one of my most important assets: my Lightroom catalog.
Lightroom is the tool I have used to organize and catalog my images ever since the beginning of my career. It's been with me from the learning phase all the way through the making a living phase. It holds the key to my digital life over the last decade and contains, at the moment, just north of a quarter-million images.
It should be noted here that this ever vital asset has always lived exclusively on my PC desktop. Sure, I had Lightroom installed on my Mac as well, but I never really used it. I was a bit intimidated by the process in truth. I was sure I could figure it out, but, being a scaredy cat, I was also pretty positive that I would screw up my precious catalog in the process.
But as I do more and more jobs on location out of town, and my office PC begins to slow down, I finally decided to try and figure out how to move my catalog from my PC onto my Mac. As it turns out, it's actually not really all that difficult. Here's how to do it.
Step 1: Figure Out Where Your Lightroom Catalog Lives on Your PC
Go to Edit > Catalog Setting.
Step 2: Open the Folder Containing the Catalog
By location, click Show.
Step 3: Copy Both the Catalog File and the Previews
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The file for the catalog itself will end in .lrcat. It is the actual catalog. You don't technically have to copy the preview folder if you don't want to, but doing so will prevent the destination Mac from having to recreate the previews in the future. So, you can save yourself time and headache by copying both.
Copy these to a jump drive, a cloud drive, or whatever other method you desire. Copy these files onto your Mac.
Step 4: Open Lightroom and Open the Catalog
File > Open Catalog
Step 5: Enjoy Lightroom on Your Mac
Yep. It was really that easy. Not sure why it took me so long to do that.
On a side note, if you see a little exclamation mark by the images in your catalog, have no fear. All that means is that you need to reconnect that image in your catalog to its source file. I, for example, tend to keep my originals on external devices as opposed to my internal hard drives. So all you need to do is connect that device to the new Mac, click on the exclamation mark (!), and chose Locate File. Find that file on the external drive, and bingo you are up and running.
Here's how you can quickly migrate your photos from the Photos app or Aperture on macOS to Lightroom Classic.
- Back up your catalog, if you have an existing Lightroom Classic catalog.
- In Lightroom Classic on macOS, choose File > Plug-In Extras.
- Select either Import from Aperture Library or Import from iPhoto Library.Note:If you want to migrate specific photos from your Aperture library to Lightroom Classic, export them to a new Aperture library and then migrate the new library.The book should automatically appear in the list of books on your Kindle.(This is also a great way to add things to your Kindle when the Kindle itself can’t get a data connection. How to delete kindle library files on mac os.
- Your libraries are automatically detected.You have the option to select a different library, if applicable. Your images will be copied to a new location. A default location is listed, however you can also choose a different folder.Click Options to see how Lightroom Classic works with available previews, keywords, color labels, and stacks.
Lightroom Import Mac Photos Library Manager
METADATA
- Flags
- Star Ratings
- Keywords
- GPS Data
- Faces: Face naming tags are mapped to keywords
- Rejects: Files designated as Rejects in Aperture are imported into Collections > From Aperture > Photos Rejected in Aperture
- Info Panel metadata that can be entered in the Info panel (i.e. IPTC)
- Hidden Files: Files designated as Hidden in Photos are imported into Collections > From iPhoto > Photos Hidden in iPhoto
- Aperture Color Labels: Color Labels are mapped to keywords: Red, Orange, and so on, including support for custom label names
ORGANIZATION
- Aperture Stacking: Stacks information is mapped to keywords: Aperture Stack 1, Aperture Stack 2, and so on
- Aperture project/folder/album hierarchies are mapped as closely as possible into Lightroom Classic collection sets and collections
- Photos events/folders/albums are mapped as closely as possible into Lightroom Classic collection sets and collections
- Aperture Versions translate into Virtual Copies in Lightroom Classic (without adjustments)
Lightroom Import Settings
EDITS
- You can choose to importfull-size JPEG previews of your edited images from Aperture/Photos, if they are up-to-date. This option is off by default. Lightroom Classic can automatically stack the preview with the original photo.
- Full-size JPEG previews generated from files with settings don't include metadata that has been applied to the master (keywords, star ratings, flags, GPS data).
- Full-size JPEG previews are duplicated if imported first by the same Photos library and then later from a library upgraded from Photos to Aperture (due to a difference in filename).
Note:
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The plug-in supports migrating both managed and referenced Aperture and Photos libraries.
- If your files are managed by Aperture (Aperture's default) Lightroom Classic leaves them where they are and duplicates them in your chosen location.
- If your files are referenced by Aperture Lightroom Classic gives you the option of leaving them in their current location, or duplicating them in a new location.
What does not get migrated to Lightroom Classic?
Some Photos/Aperture features are not compatible with Lightroom Classic. This includes:
- Image adjustments: Aperture and Lightroom use different image processing engines, so Lightroom cannot read adjustments made in Aperture. You can do one of the following:
- Re-edit your file using Lightroom Classic.
- Use Aperture to export full resolution edited photos and store them with the originals.
- Smart Albums
- Face Tag Region of Interest: Face naming tags are mapped to keywords
- Color Labels: Optionally as keywords
- Stacks: Optionally as keywords. Aperture shares stacks between albums, Lightroom does not
- Any kind of creation (books, web galleries, and so on) other than the collections that correspond to them
- PSD files can be imported into Lightroom only if they’re saved with ‘maximize compatibility’ enabled.
In June 2014, Apple announced the discontinuation of development of Aperture. Since then, Apple has released five major macOS updates. For technical reasons, Aperture will not run in macOS versions after macOS Mojave. To know more, see this Apple documentation.
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