How to Move From Aperture to Lightroom
Although they offer similar digital photo development and organizational tools, Apple Aperture and Adobe Lightroom use different cataloging systems. Lightroom defaults to organizing your photos by the date they were edited, while Aperture lets you specify the folder name for each catalog. Moving the photos won't take too long, but renaming your folders in Lightroom might be time consuming. Simply saving your Aperture photo files on an external hard drive and opening them in Lightroom won't preserve your keywords or your edits, but changing an import setting will help.
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Instructions
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Open your Mac's Finder. Click on your user, or home, file.
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Click on "Pictures," then open the Aperture Library.
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Right-click on "Aperture Library." Choose "Show Package Contents" from the menu that appears. Click on the "Masters" file.
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Maximize Lightroom and drag the Masters file over to the Lightroom screen. Drop the file anywhere on the window.
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Select "Copy as DNG" from the drop-down box at the top center of the Lightroom window. A DNG file is a digital negative file. It retains your edits, such as white balance and special toning, along with keywords attached to the photo in Aperture.
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Rename your Lightroom files. If you don't like to search by your photos based on dates, you must manually rename each folder by its subject matter. Moving files from Aperture to Lightroom won't preserve folder names, although it preserves individual photo names.
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Tips & Warnings
Always back up your photos to an external hard drive on a regular basis.
