From the course: Using iPhoto and Aperture Together
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Importing into iPhoto libraries with Aperture
From the course: Using iPhoto and Aperture Together
Importing into iPhoto libraries with Aperture
I want to run an idea by you and the idea is, even if you're an iPhoto user, most of the time, considering using Aperture for importing of your photos instead of using iPhoto. Then, of course, you can use iPhoto for everything else you do. Let me show you why I'm thinking along these lines. We did the Aperture Import here and as you can see, we have all that information that I added on Import; the keywords, the copyright notice, my website, all that good stuff and it's been applied to every photo here. Now, since we have the unified library, we can open this library up in iPhoto also. Let me go ahead and quit Aperture right now. Here's that Aperture Library that we're just looking at. Let's open it in iPhoto, so I'm going to Ctrl+click on it. Go to Open with and choose iPhoto. It's a unified library, so there will be no problem with this at all. And here are our images, right here in iPhoto. Because we don't have the same sort of information panel in iPhoto that we have in Aperture…
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