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These are interesting ideas. However, I’m not convinced they are less work, and wikis can devolve into debates instead of information.
The other problem is that these will not help non-English speakers. The app will be localized in 6 languages (plus English). Videos get close captioning automatically which is helpful in those cases (if not perfect).
I’ll keep it in mind. Thanks for the suggestion.
If you have copied the metadata.db, try the Restore Edits feature (which is available in the menu in the upper left corner).
I was looking at the Software metadata field from a RAW image shot by Halide and the value is “17.4.1” so I can add the field, but it won’t tell you what app created it.
The “Smart Album” in Nitro is just an empty container with a query attached to it. That’s why it’s empty in Photos – it only gets “filled” when you view it in Nitro, but the images there are transient – they are not added officially to the album. I suppose it could be made more permanent, but that’s not the intent of the feature (since it’s inherently dynamic).
It is akin to a Smart Folder in the Finder – smart folders are not really folders. They looks like folders in the Finder, but if you cannot use it outside of the Finder (like in an Open Dialog).
I do not plan to write a Nitro manual – manuals are very time-consuming especially when they have to be localized (with localized screenshots). This summer I plan to make a series of videos instead.
I don’t understand what you are saying. The entire edit interface is for adjusting the whole image. Only the Brush tool is for selective masking. If you have a suggestion, please provide it.
Smart Albums in Photos can be limited to specific albums. Since Ratings and Flags are represented as Albums in Photos, you can use the Rating / Flag Album in the query though it’s not as good as what you can do in Nitro.
You can edit the whole image by leaving the brushing tool and going back any of the other three (the one with the magic wand, presets, or the sliders).
Recover Highlights is only available for RAWs. If it’s available, it appears in the first edit section along with Auto Enhance and Clone.
It is also not available for ProRAW files, as they are not actually RAW files (despite the name, they do not contain RAW data).
If it’s a JPEG, then you can use Split Toning. If it’s a ProRAW, you might try Tone Map first to see if that helps or not with getting detail in the sky.
There are a few ways to recover a blown out sky. One is to use the Recover Highlights function in the app (in the area with Auto Enhance).
That can be a good first start. Then you can tint the highlights using the Split Toning adjustment if you like. You can also consider HSL.
The channel mixer is a simple and yet hard to understand tool – it’s not for this purpose.
Any mask can be limited by luminance or color. If you want a basic luminance mask, do this:
1. Make a new brush mask
2. Click Fill
3. Go to the options area (looks like overlapping squares).
4. Move the luminance sliders.There is a bug right now where the mask does not live update as you move the sliders. That will be fixed in the next release.
At some point, I may just add a mask that does that in one step, but that’s how you do it now.
