[Digital Asset Management for AP?]

As a Mac user who switched to Aperture after becoming frustrated with the non-intuitive operation of LR, I now use Aperture for my file organization & storage but Affinity Photo for all of my editing.  Aperture also has a feature that allows you to select Affinity Photo as an external editor by going to Preferences & selecting the Export tab; under that you press the Choose button to select the External Photo Editor & pick Affinity Photo.  For the External File Format you can select Tiff (8 or 16 bits as you prefer).

 

Then when you want to edit an image from those stored in Aperture, you right-click on the image & select Edit with Affinity Photo App.  Affinity Photo will start with the image loaded & ready to be edited.  Then to return the edited image to Aperture for storage, select File > Save - a dialog will appear saying the image contains non-pixel elements - Select Save Flattened to flatten the image before sending it to Aperture.  That's it; the edited image will appear in Aperture alongside the original.

 

Hopefully Affinity will soon have its own storage & organization of images so it will no longer be necessary to involve Aperture in this DAM function.  But for now at least, I find this to be a very easy & straightforward way to use Aperture with Photo.

I've been using Aperture for years, but when I upgraded my computer to el Capitan it will no longer work!  I LOVE Aperture! 

Are you using it with el Capitan? If so can you point me in the right direction to figure out how to get it back and functioning?

[What catalogue and workflow system do you use?]

Yes, I would like to know the answer to that as well!  I've read that Bridge will work.  I can't seem to find good info.  I was an Aperture user and when I updated the my iMac, Aperture ceased to work.  Such a great application.  I bought Affinity and I am lost!

[Apple Photos + Affinity]

I'm an Aperture user and since Apple no longer supports Aperture I'm looking at Affinity.  I'd like to know what others who use affinity use for organizing photos.  I have not used Apple Photos, but heard that it can work fine.  I am a professional photographer that specializes in portraiture and am looking at something simple to use.  Photoshop and Lightroom look a bit overwhelming after having used Aperture for the last 5 years..

 

Any suggestions appreciated.  Thank you!