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Nitro will be able to read and write the ratings in Photos. It will be in the upcoming 2026.08 release. When you open that version of Nitro it will check to see if you have any Apple Photos ratings and walk you through how to synchronize them. If you tell Nitro to keep them in sync, then it will store ratings in the same place that Apple Photos does (and read them from there).
Thanks for sending me the image and XMP. There is a bug with the contrast filter in Nitro. I have made a note to fix it, but I have to do it in a way that doesn’t change the appearance of all images that use contrast. For this use-case, I suggest using an S-curve in Curves, or the mid-point controls in Levels (top and bottom). Sorry for the issue.
The next update to Nitro will have full support for Apple’s 10-year-overdue support for ratings (it was in iPhoto, for Pete’s sake). It’s in beta testing now. It’s quite complicated because Nitro already has ratings, and people may use Photos to set ratings, etc. But beta testers have used it and it seems to work fine.
I have not seen that, no. However, in the dark areas (which are close to zero), you can get some funny values (including negative values), which can behave unexpectedly under certain mathematical operations. If you want to send a RAW + XMP to me, I can try to look into it when I have some time (email the support address and I can give you an upload link)
Nitro doesn’t have much in the way of folder or file management when using a Finder window. So, you cannot currently drag to move files or folders around. It’s on the near term list, but after RAW v9 and other stuff to support the new OS versions.
You can always send feature requests to support@gentlemencoders.com. I get a lot, so I can’t promise anything. If you email, I can send you a link to upload a sample file.
It’s not intentional, but not surprising. When you export RP edits, RAW Power writes out its data in “RP” format, not in Nitro format. Nitro then interprets that when it opens the image for editing. It can tell that the image was edited but until you enter edit, it doesn’t read and process the data. I’ll make a note to try to get the edited flag to work in filtering.
I have never tried something like that – have you been able to accomplish it with other apps, and if so, how? I might be able to suggest something based on that.
Hi Mark,
Can you post this in the Nitro forum? This post is in the RAW Power forum which doesn’t have the feature.
The app currently does retain the filter when changing directories (at least it’s supposed to, and it works when I try it).
This is what I tried:
1. Went to a folder in the file system – filtered by edited (A > B > C)
2. Went to a different folder (A > D > E) – filtered by rating
3. Went back to the first folder – still filtered by edited.
4. Went back to the second folder – still filtered by rating.Do you have any other settings – perhaps viewing combined subfolders or something like that (the “tree” button at the bottom of the window)?
The green button puts you into Full Screen mode. That’s an existing behavior of macOS – they may have changed the look a bit with the menus, but I don’t the functionality has changed.
If you want the zoom the window without going into Full Screen, double-click the title bar.
The location hasn’t changed. You will find them here: ~/Library/Containers/com.gentlemencoders.RAWPower/Data/Documents
Yes, sidecars are stored next to the originals in Nitro and are XMP format, rather than the proprietary format that RAW Power uses.
The app doesn’t have a separate way of backing up sidecars – the expectation is that a normal home folder backup would preserve the files. The number of backups you would make for the sidecars is the same for these as for any document on your disk – meaning, I don’t recommend treating them differently than any other data on your disk.
