Nik Bhatt


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  • in reply to: Keywords in new Release #139130
    Nik Bhatt
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    The app does not have synonyms or a way to note them. I can put it on the list for consideration but I can’t promise anything.

    in reply to: Keywords in new Release #139128
    Nik Bhatt
    Keymaster

    The app does not have a synonym feature like that.

    in reply to: Brush Behaviour #139121
    Nik Bhatt
    Keymaster

    Hi. Sorry to hear about this issue. Can you send a screen recording of this happening to support@gentlemencoders.com? That will be much easier to troubleshoot. Also, if you can turn on “Show Touches” in the app’s settings, it will be easier for me to follow what you are doing.

    in reply to: Keywords in new Release #139055
    Nik Bhatt
    Keymaster

    OK thanks – I put your request on my list for a (hopefully near-term) release.

    in reply to: Keywords in new Release #139052
    Nik Bhatt
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    I will have to look into it. If you pick a child keyword, and it adds the parents, then I presume you want the parent keywords to appear before the child keyword in the XMP file?

    in reply to: Keeping an eye on Nitro Photo #139045
    Nik Bhatt
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    Thanks for the compliments! Unsure what you mean about the local adjustments being weak – almost all of the global adjustments are available as local ones. Nitro does have edge aware brushes. It does not have control points etc. which are protected by patents (I don’t know when those expire).

    in reply to: Photomechanic and Nitro #138967
    Nik Bhatt
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    Editing of single files was added to Nitro several releases ago (on the Mac). You can use Open… or drag a file to Nitro’s icon, etc.

    in reply to: Working on more than one Mac – and an iPad #138963
    Nik Bhatt
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    I have received some reports about NAS issues with iOS / iPadOS, but the same NAS works fine with the Nitro on the Mac. Personally, I have found that a Mac mini acting as a server works fine with Nitro on iPads, so that could be option 4 – use the Mac mini as a file server / turn on file sharing.

    Otherwise, of your above options, I would agree that #3 is your best bet given that your LAN is fast, but your WAN is slow (and iCloud is squirrely).

    The external disk could be okay too – it could be backed up regularly by setting up a backup script / service on your mini and periodically taking the drive back to the Mini, where the backup system would then run.

    in reply to: Managing Location/GPS Metadata #138893
    Nik Bhatt
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    GPS is supported in proprietary RAW files and DNGs, so it’s fine to use a tool like ExifTool or maybe HuodahGeo to insert the data.

    It’s best to add the GPS data BEFORE you import it into an app / view it / otherwise manage it, because adding GPS can change the capture date / time which can confuse apps that are not expecting that to change.

    in reply to: Would appreciate some help aboutTone Control #138883
    Nik Bhatt
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    I don’t know what Brilliance does – Apple does not describe their algorithms.

    in reply to: Would appreciate some help aboutTone Control #138875
    Nik Bhatt
    Keymaster

    Tone Control? Are you referring to the Tone Map that is present for ProRAW files?
    If so I made a video a while ago about Tone Mapping that you can view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LguSpnDoShM

    in reply to: EXIF data analysis #138812
    Nik Bhatt
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    The app maintains a small database with some of that information, which is what I would use for the stats. You are correct that metadata is in general a complete mess with camera files – the camera companies cannot even consistently write the same model name into the files for a given camera – I have seen files from the Canon R6 Mark II that have a camera model of EOS R6m2 and other have EOS R6 Mark II.

    in reply to: Time/date change on export to Photos app #138809
    Nik Bhatt
    Keymaster

    Please email me at support@gentlemencoders.com so we can work through this.

    in reply to: Search option #138805
    Nik Bhatt
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    Walking the tree is the time necessary to go through all of the files and folders that you want to search against. For an SSD, it’s pretty fast; for a network drive it’s pretty slow. Getting file names etc isn’t slow, but reading the metadata is. The app would need a spinner or something because the preparation time is not predictable or consistent.

    in reply to: Search option #138799
    Nik Bhatt
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    It’s an interesting idea. Filtering and searching are similar concepts but with a key difference. Filtering: taking a large set and producing a subset. Searching: starting from nothing and producing a set of matches.

    Both take a query and produce a result set, but filtering is starting with the images already visible, while search is starting from nothing visible. The app filters rather than searches because then it’s just hiding images from view and everything else works the same way as if there was no filter.

    Nitro stores metadata for files it has seen in a database. However, because the file system can change behind its back, it cannot be sure that the files that it was are still there (or if new ones have been added).

    So for a search, it cannot simply consider its database. It would still have to walk the entire tree. It would not need to display all the thumbnails, that’s true.

    Then, when there is a match, it would need to find a different way or UI to show the images, since they can be scattered throughout the tree and that would break the assumptions of where the images are coming from. So, that would require a different type of view (in the way that the Finder has a different view when you search there).

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