Photo oganization help-Aperture--->Lightroom?

So you edited your photos in Aperture and want them in Lightroom now? Bytheway good choice I prefer Lightroom. Best thing you can do right now. Collect all your images into one folder ad label them. The quicker you get organized the less of a headache you’ll have down the road. Label that file Lightroom images. Ideally you should have a place to store these files and a backup. Once you get all the files organized by what they are. Wether you named them by date or name dosent matter. It’s your preference. Then start lightroom and have it import all the files. Pay attention to what it’s asking. Make sure you doulbe import (import and copy them to a duplicate location). And then have lightroom backup the images to your external.

Hope that helps.

well the thing is, 60% of my images are in thier each individual folders from my dreaded Aperture experience. making them impossible to organize. :[

maybe ill just trash them all and start over.

Just put them in new folders then, it will take awhile but it sounds like it is something that needs to be done. Unless you just dont need the photos. I’m a photographer so I have to keep all my images.

Sorry you’ve had a bad Aperture experience. I’ve been using it for a few years, and I love it. I prefer the way Aperture keeps the files organized and makes it easy to backup to a vault.

You should be able to export your masters from within Aperture. Select the images and choose File>Export>Masters. If you want to export the edited versions, choose Export>Versions.

You can also export your metadata from Aperture, but I’m not sure if Lightroom can import that file easily.