After checking out both Adobe’s LightRoom and Apple’s Aperture I decided to go for Aperture. They are both very cool programs but Aperture is just that little bit nicer..
That was until I found out about its jpg export bug! When you export jpgs from Aperture with metadata it actually produces corrupt jpg files! This means that I can’t use either exiv2 or ExifTool to geotag my images!!
Instead I had to first export my images without metadata and then export them again without. Then I run a script that copies all the metadata from the corrupt jpgs and applies them to the metadata-less ones. And THEN I can run my gps scripts! This is pure pain!
Apparently this bug is not just an Aperture one but a general OSX one – the Preview application also corrupts images if you add keywords to an image! Strangely enough the jpegs are fine if they have for example a GPS Exif tag already before you import it into Aperture or add keywords in Preview.
Apple needs to fix this.. now!
