Before the winter snow, Avalanche 1.0 is out!

We designed Avalanche because we were not satisfied with existing solutions – when they existed – to migrate our many photo catalogs out of Aperture. We realized how being able to switch our preferred cataloging app was important to us as many great photo edition apps exist, and are continuously begging to be. Being able to move all our images with metadata, organizational structure and some edits was opening new perspectives and giving us a much wanted freedom of choice. But Avalanche does not stop here. We wanted to ensure that everything that was present in the source catalog got converted, even if it looked hard or impossible. Therefore Avalanche converts faces and recreates them, not as keywords like other solutions do, but as real face detections in the destination catalog. Avalanche not only does a great job of opening and converting those catalogs, but we added some unique Machine Learning capabilities to transfer a number of adjustments. And when Avalanche estimates that a picture has adjustments that are too complex to migrate, it places the image in a dedicated album for the user to review after conversion. We hope you’ll enjoy using Avalanche for Lightroom.