Rescue Your Aperture Libraries with Exporter for Aperture

Ever since Apple announced that it was ceasing development of Aperture, photographers have begun plotting the “great escape” (otherwise known as exporting their image libraries from Aperture into new photo organizers, typically Adobe’s Lightroom). A new software application called Exporter for Aperture promises to help.

For $15, Exporter re-generates your Aperture library as a set of folders and sub-folders retaining your project hierarchies. Master images are saved with XMP sidecar files so you can move your data between different organizers while still retaining vital metadata.

Any photos that were edited in Aperture are saved as TIFF or JPEG depending on the image rating and Aperture flags and color labels are converted to keywords for transitioning to Lightroom.

Of course, you can do all this for free (John Beardsworth, for instance, has a nice set of detailed instructions for how to do just that) but this software promises to take a bit of the point-and-click grunt work out of the equation.

If that’s worth $15, head on over to the Mac App store and have a look.