New app that claims it will migrate from Aperture to Lightroom

[Hal P Anderson]

Lightroom Version Number

LR Classic 9.2

Operating System

1. Windows 10

https://cyme.io/avalanche-photo-conversion/
It evidently uses AI to try to match LR sliders to edits made in Aperture. It also moves the easy stuff across. It isn't what I'd call cheap. 59 Euros. I have no Mac, and haven't tried it, but there's a trial version that will transfer 100 images.

 

[Califdan]

I have never used a Mac so don't have first hand knowledge of the inner workings of Apterture, but I'm curious as to how the AI engine in this tool knows what you did to the image in Aperture. Two possibilities come to mind. First, if Aperture stores a copy of the edited version (even a preview of it) the AI engine could deduce what LR changes would get the same result starting from the same original (unedited) file. But, without a sample image representing the target look, the only other thing it could do was, perhaps look at the Aperture equivalent of the history file and map Aperture slider movements to equivalent LR movements. Does anyone know which method this tool uses and if it's any good? I'd love to be able to suggest it to my Aperture clients but first want to understand what it's doing and if folks who have used it are generally happy with the results.

 

[Johan Elzenga]

I have never used a Mac so don't have first hand knowledge of the inner workings of Apterture, but I'm curious as to how the AI engine in this tool knows what you did to the image in Aperture. Two possibilities come to mind. First, if Aperture stores a copy of the edited version (even a preview of it) the AI engine could deduce what LR changes would get the same result starting from the same original (unedited) file. But, without a sample image representing the target look, the only other thing it could do was, perhaps look at the Aperture equivalent of the history file and map Aperture slider movements to equivalent LR movements. Does anyone know which method this tool uses and if it's any good? I'd love to be able to suggest it to my Aperture clients but first want to understand what it's doing and if folks who have used it are generally happy with the results.

Aperture works very much like Lightroom. It stores the edits in its library, just like Lightroom stores them in its catalog.

 

[Bernard]

https://cyme.io/avalanche-photo-conversion/
It evidently uses AI to try to match LR sliders to edits made in Aperture. It also moves the easy stuff across. It isn't what I'd call cheap. 59 Euros. I have no Mac, and haven't tried it, but there's a trial version that will transfer 100 images.

I have never used a Mac so don't have first hand knowledge of the inner workings of Apterture, but I'm curious as to how the AI engine in this tool knows what you did to the image in Aperture. Two possibilities come to mind. First, if Aperture stores a copy of the edited version (even a preview of it) the AI engine could deduce what LR changes would get the same result starting from the same original (unedited) file. But, without a sample image representing the target look, the only other thing it could do was, perhaps look at the Aperture equivalent of the history file and map Aperture slider movements to equivalent LR movements. Does anyone know which method this tool uses and if it's any good? I'd love to be able to suggest it to my Aperture clients but first want to understand what it's doing and if folks who have used it are generally happy with the results.

Some answers :
https://cyme.io/how-avalanche-uses-machine-learning-to-make-photo-apps-speak-the-same-language/Bernard