topic Re: Lightroom CC and New IMac in Camera Software

Lightroom CC and New IMac

Edward1064 — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 17:54:18 GMT

For several years I have been using Apple Aperture on a Macbook Pro for editing photos. I am now plannng to get a new 27-inch iMac and use Lightroom CC for my photo editing. Can anyone offer experience on how well Lightroom runs on these Apple iMac computers?

Many thanks,

Edward1064

Re: Lightroom CC and New IMac

jrhoffman75 — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 21:19:13 GMT

It should work fine. We have a 2012 iMac with Sierra and have no problems. Get 8GB or more memory and SSD.

Re: Lightroom CC and New IMac

Edward1064 — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 02:46:42 GMT

Thanks, John, for your help.

Re: Lightroom CC and New IMac

TCampbell — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 14:46:06 GMT

BTW, Adobe has an Aperture importer that will pull in all your Aperture library images... but what I found is that it's really pulling in the original RAW files but not the adjustments.

I still have Aperture on my Mac (so that I don't have to readjust all those images) and do everything new in Lightroom.

Re: Lightroom CC and New IMac

Edward1064 — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:17:49 GMT

Thank you, Tim, I will do something similar.

Re: Lightroom CC and New IMac

Edward1064 — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 04:46:03 GMT

All,

To add an udate to this thread, I now have a new iMac (27”, 500 GB SSD, slowest processor), and Lightroom CC. It works really well, and seems quite fast. So far I am really liking Lightroom CC. The transition from Aperture hasn’t been difficult. One thing I particularly like in all of the training resources available for LR.