I got to try out the new Photos for Mac.  I have been a user of Aperture for several years and it fits both my personal and microstock needs.  I very rarely use PS any more.  So I was a happy camper till Apple decided to drop any future development of that software.

I had high hopes for the new Photos for Mac.  But, right now,  it seems much more like iPhotos than Aperture.  Key missing  stuff is no curves adjustment.  Curves adjustment is a large part of my workflow.  They do provide a levels adjustment but its confusing and too course a tool.  There is also no star rating.  They have sharpen but no edge sharpen.   No Burn and dodge.   Very few to no brush options .

So anybody else try it?  What do you think?

Anybody switch to lightroom or another software with success?

I switched to Lightroom in early 2014 and I am very happy with it.

I made the switch in 2011 and never looked back. Love LR.

Lightroom here too, and very happy with it.

Lightroom 6 is announced for the 20th of Mars!

I was looking at OnOne's Perfect Layers as a Lightroom add-on and realized that they market the entire suite ($80 as a standalone app, $130 if you want Lightroom and Photoshop integration) as a complete solution.

I often use Lightroom alone for personal images - everything for stock ends up in Photoshop - and was thinking that having layers and being able to blend multiple layers in Lightroom would be very convenient for non-stock work.

You might give that a look as an Aperture alternative:

http://petapixel.com/2014/09/03/onone-software-announces-redesigned-perfect-photo-suite-9-set-for-october-release/

http://www.on1.com/downloads/?gclid=CjwKEAjwz_-nBRC0zbDb_YOT1TgSJACW2VEC-50ODlrNN-lrH2LdOdAuHxZoftyNRPI_EOuz7SkpnxoCf2nw_wcB

You can look at video tutorials in the Learn section to get an idea of how it works (which will seem pretty familiar if you're used to Photoshop and Lightroom)