RAW/JPEG workflow best practices


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    David
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    Hi all,

    still clinging to Aperture, I’m curious about your workflow best practices with Raw Power.

    My workflow requirements:
    – Input are RAW/JPEG pairs from the camera, I’m using Aperture’s auto-stack feature to stack the pairs
    – First processing step is selection / star rating, which photos to keep (working on the collapsed stacks)
    – Second step is to edit the RAW or keep the JPEG version in case it’s better than my edited RAW (whichever of the two I choose goes on top of the stack)
    – Finally, the edited images go into my iCloud photo library, the RAW sources files go to my external disk

    Questions:
    – Does Raw Power support RAW+JPEG pairs? How can I switch between RAW/JPEG and selected the preferred version? Is there something similar to Aperture’s stacks?
    I would like to avoid dealing with duplicates during the selection processing, deleting and rating every photo twice (RAW and JPEG)
    – Are you importing your photos to iCloud before processing? I would like to avoid RAWs eating up my iCloud storage. On the other hand, an integrated laptop/iPad workflow seems tempting.

    I’d appreciate any insights or your editing process / best practices even if they do not directly answer my questions.

    Cheers,
    David

    #108439
    Nik Bhatt
    Keymaster

    It depends on whether you are using Photos or not. The app’s features are different because it leverages the Photo library when possible.

    1) R+J is supported as a pair when using the photo library. In the file browser, they are separate images. Photos stacks the images together; there is a menu item to switch (as Aperture had). You can batch switch as well in Photos. That feature is not present in RAW Power because Apple has not provided a way for me to do that.

    2) My library is under 2TB, so everything fits in the cloud.

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