If you want to start from scratch, click Clear Adjustment or Revert to Original in the Edit pane to start fresh, or choose Image > Revert to Original. Unfortunately, you can’t modify these Aperture adjustments and edits in Photos. If your images in Aperture have been modified via adjustments or brushed-on edits, the edited versions and the originals are imported together into Photos. See the sidebar Hard Facts about Hard Links, in the previous chapter, for the nerdy details. But in fact, importing an Aperture library into Photos uses very little additional disk space. If you have a large library, you’re probably worried that a second version of the same library will take up twice the space. (So a library called 2010 Aperture Library will be imported to a library called 2010 Photos Library.) They’ll even have the same name-unless your library contained the word Aperture, in which case you’ll see it replaced with the word Photos. The net result of the import is that you’ll have two separate libraries on your Mac’s drive: your old Aperture library and a new Photos library. Behind the ScenesĪs with iPhoto, when you import an Aperture library into Photos, your existing library remains intact. But don’t give up hope! Mac OS X Automation has posted several Automator actions for use with Photos, including ones that let you get selected photos and import and export items. Note: Photos has much less scripting and Automator support than Aperture.

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