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Yes, it not only supports them, but it has a special slider just for those files. I made a video that discusses ProRAW and how to use RAW Power with it. You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LguSpnDoShM
All adjustments have text fields next to them which are editable, so you can type -.5 if you like. You can also use the arrow keys (and various modifiers) to jump the values up and down. To type in a text field, double click it.
The app is not designed to work exactly the same as Aperture. Edit mode is modal as it is in Photos. This is partly because of the PhotoKit dialog that requires approval after editing and also to simplify (and gate) things like downloading originals – these are not issues that Aperture had to face.
I don’t know of any such issue. Copy Adjustments comes up immediately for me all the time. Copy Adjustments is only valid if you right click or select an image with adjustments. I’m not sure what could be happening on your machine. Perhaps other things are slow as well?
Copy Adjustments in Photos does not work with the Extension – that is a Photos-only feature. However, RAW Power automatically saves the last set of adjustments you used on an image as a synthesized “preset”. You can go to the next image you want to edit and use the preset menu to apply those those settings. So, in that way you can get the effect of Copy / Paste.
Since Halide uses the photo library, if you use iCloud Photos, then the images will get synced to your Mac and you can use RAW Power there (or Photos). iCloud will send the original RAW.
If you aren’t using iCloud Photos, then you can import them from your phone to the Mac. Photos will import the RAW as well. There will not be any conversion to JPEG as long as you use Photos to import the images (vs. using share or some other means).
If you start in RAW Power for iOS and then save as non-destructive, you can continue editing on the Mac with RAW Power. That will work when using iCloud, which will sync both the editing data and original image. If you don’t use iCloud, then it’s “possible” to import the editing data from iOS, but Photos is very unreliable in this regard (I have no idea if it even works with the latest OS – it’s that sketchy).
Hmm. You have found a bug in the trial mode. I didn’t see it in my testing – sorry about that. It works fine once the app is purchased. I’ll put in a fix for the trial case in the next release.
Yes, I agree that a gradient tool would be very useful. Thanks for your feedback and specific use case.
I put your suggestion on the Customer Requested Feature. I review that list before each new version to see what can be added.
When you use extensions, they save JPEGs into the photo library. When you ask Photos to export, it will just use that JPEG. It does not go back to the original + invoke the extension.
When you are using RAW Power as a standalone app, it is still writing a JPEG into the photo library. However, if you use RAW Power to export, it will generate new images from the original RAW. So, you get full fidelity. That, of course, is only true for images edited in RAW Power. If you edit an image in Photos (or any other editor that uses the photo library) and then export that image in RAW Power, it will use the JPEG because it has no way to invoke Photos to render the image from the original.
If you plan to use multiple editors through the Photo library, then you are inevitably going to be stuck with a JPEG at some point. If you want the highest quality then use RAW Power to edit the image (standalone), export a TIFF and then edit that in the other app. I suppose you could import the TIFF into Photos and then use a separate extension to edit (but again, you have a JPEG at the end).
Yes, it’s doable and some apps work that way. The problem is that the controls then cover the image (which can make it hard to make a precision adjustment) and usually the controls are hard to see because of the overlay.
It’s odd that the app would slow down – the way iOS works, there is no swap file that would lead to slowness the way one might see on the Mac. Perhaps the GPU is slowly getting overwhelmed.
