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\"aperture\"At the annual WWDC earlier this month<\/a>, Apple showed off its new Photos app for Mac OS X Yosemite, which will sync all your pictures across all your devices. The Photos app will mirror the iOS offering.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the other shoe dropped with Apple announcing that it will no longer be developing its professional-grade photo editing app Aperture or consumer-grade app iPhoto, and it will instead replace them with Photos.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how many of Aperture\u2019s features Photos will include, but users will likely need to search elsewhere for professional-grade solutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, enabling you to safely store all of your photos in iCloud and access them from anywhere, there will be no new development of Aperture,\u201d said Apple in a statement provided to The Loop<\/a>. \u201cWhen Photos for OS X ships next year, users will be able to migrate their existing Aperture libraries to Photos for OS.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s likely that with the current competition, such as Adobe\u2019s Lightroom, Apple no longer sees a reason to compete with more robust pro apps. Apple is also apparently planning to help users transition to Lightroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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