goodbye old friend

The spinning beachball of death means the end has finally come for Aperture.  Apple, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that they will no longer support it.  

I’ve lived with the daily crashes and freezes, the constant need to log off and log on because ….. I like the programme.  My photo editing needs are very simple.  I don’t shoot raw and I don’t mix photos and graphics.  Aperture allows me - when it works - to do everything I need.

It combines a library - with simple names like project and albums - so I can organize my photos, with an editor that allows me to play around and whizz backwards and forwards between Nik (both Color and Silver Efx) and the library with the minimum of effort.  Until recently.  The last crash corrupted the library system and there are now some 14,000 images seemingly scattered at random around my computer.

I’ve been putting off the move to another programme for ages - Anniemay jumped ship a while ago.  She wonders what I am making such a fuss about; “just do it!!” she says.  

I read somewhere that the best photo-editing software is the one you actually like using.  Which is why I’ve resisted change for so long.

I know - I’m a dinosaur.  But I’m not the only one; the internet is awash with people well-versed in the black art of writing computer code, offering to help people like me run Aperture on the latest OS.  Not every Mac user wants to call their photographs ‘memories’.  

My only experience of writing computer code involved punch cards and a three day wait for a printout only to discover a typo, which negated the whole thing.  So that’s a no no.  It’s time to get to grips with the shock of the new.  I may be sometime.

ps:
Dinosaurs, 160M years, Homo Sapiens 2M years.  Dinosaurs didn’t do too badly.