I wish they’d hurry up, for the love of peter the pumpkin eater. I can’t use Aperture at all. Two reasons, no Nikon d300 RAW format support, and I found a crashing bug. Edit your photos in Adobe Lightroom. Key word them. Import them into Aperture. Aperture crashes. Parsing XML EXIF data. Dammit all to heck. To be clear, key word any photo in Lightroom. Even a five year old jpeg. Aperture crashes on import every single time. I doubt I would have run into this at all if I could have just used Aperture to manage my new d300 photos in the first place.

I’ve spent a lot of time key wording my photos lately. I’ve individually key worded over 9000 pictures over the last weeks (I have about 3000 to go yet). This takes hours and hours and hours and frankly sucks my will to live. Though having them all key worded is so damn cool its worth the time. For example, now I can find all my pictures of Jack in the snow in Portland in 2005. Sweet. Plus I only have to do this once, since I’ve got into the habit of key wording photos when I import them now.

I did this all in Lightroom. Now, Lightroom is a great program. Everything works. The new Nikon RAW formats. Importing. Editing. Printing. Thank the photo gods we have it. It’s worth every penny. Though I have to say some of the UI drives me out of my mind. The fixed panels on the side. Bad. Very bad. I want Aperture back. It’s been months since I’ve been able to use it.

Here’s the 100% factual, no possibility for error, post on a rumor site that I got this info from: Apple hints at forthcoming Aperture update.