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I do plan to add more features to the File Browser such as more flexible storage options and the ability to add more metadata etc.
I do NOT plan to make an entire Aperture-level library in the File Browser mode. Apple has an entire team of people to work on the library for Photos – I’m just one person who has to do the entire app. Making something like Aperture’s DAM is simply more than I can take on.
Keywording in the “File Browser” side of the app is on the list for a future release. However, I’d like to just have a single keyword feature for both Photos and File Browser but of course that depends on Apple.
BTW: While you may only want to use Photos for your iPhone images, you could consider some of Photos’ advantages for your other images, especially paired with RAW Power. The biggest of course is iCloud Photos support. I don’t have immediately plans to create albums and stuff like that on the File Browser side – while those are already provided in the Photo library.
Hi,
I’m glad you are using (and happy with the app). Sorting by size is useful feature, but the problem is that Photos doesn’t provide that information in an efficient way. Basically, I would have to download every original (if it’s in the cloud) and get the size at that point. That’s why a lot of information is only available in Edit mode or after the image has been downloaded – Photos provides only the bare minimum (they don’t even tell me whether the original file is a RAW or not).
Hi Sean,
These are good questions. Apple’s RAW engine is quite limited in its lens correction. Mostly it works for fixed lens cameras (e.g Sony RX 100), micro 4/3rd and newer cameras like the Nikon Z series (I think). They don’t list which ones they support for this.
It’s unlikely that lens correction is being applied for your 50mm 1.8 but it might depend on the camera body. Perhaps there is a crop being applied – I cannot say without looking at the RAW myself.
Yes, RAW Power will detect if lens corrections are being applied. I hope to do more with lens correction in the future, but I do not know for sure what my plans are.
Unfortunately, no. Catalina is the first OS that allows 3rd party apps to read and write the Photo library. This feature was added to iOS a long time ago, but it took until 10.15 for it to make it to the Mac.
Another way to manage multiple libraries (especially when dealing with iCloud) is to create a separate user on your Mac. The iCloud library might be one user and the non-iCloud library might be a different user. You can switch between users faster than you can switch between libraries!
Sorry TN – I didn’t see your response until Erik’s appeared.
While you are right that LR doesn’t copy the files, they maintain a database and only images that are imported are visible. That’s why they have issues when the original images move around.
You have a few choices:
• You could import everything into the Files’ side of your iPad. Since you have a lot of photos, I would not do that since RAW Power doesn’t support hierarchies yet.• You can import into Photos – you then get access to iCloud Photo Library if you want it. But it sounds like you don’t care for storing things in the cloud (it helps when your iPad is running out of space, but Apple provides very limited control over what is on your device and what is in the cloud). Photos also provides some amount of organization, though it doesn’t let you create folders on iOS (it will show them, but you can’t make them on iOS). You didn’t mention if you have a Mac, which would affect the answer somewhat (given the presence of Photos for Mac [and RAW Power for Mac]).
The Files side of RAW Power is immature – I was able to implement the minimum so that people had some options for working with images outside of Photos, but it needs to be bulked up considerably.
I hope to have a way to move images between Files and Photos (carrying editing data) at some point, though I don’t know how well it will handle many thousands of images being moved around [in part because I haven’t started working on that feature].
Hi,
Your dream is reasonable. However, any time you use a “library” or “shoebox” style of app, especially on iOS, it’s going to copy the files into its container. So that’s why Photos does that (as well as Lightroom). It wants to make sure the files are always available and there are other technical reasons why it greatly simplifies the implementation (and therefore the reliability). Managing a single file here or there externally is not a problem – it’s the hierarchies and such that get a little crazy.
RAW Power currently copies the files as well. That is a temporary limitation that I plan to lift in a future release, where files can either be copied (which is essential for SD cards when they aren’t copied ahead of time by the user) and referenced in place (as you would like). I’d also like to support folders and such things, but that also creates a set of headaches that the current implementation side steps. In general, referenced file implementations are notoriously difficult to get right and the feature set that people want makes it a considerable investment in time.
For example, you mentioned wanting to move the files to another drive and have everything be visible. When files move to different drives (and different folder structures), apps then need features to smartly reconnect them. If you ever saw the reconnect interface in Aperture, it is a real bear. Lightroom on the desktop sort of throws up its hands at that case. Reconnecting also requires moving / renaming / synching the sidecar and database files which is hard to get right. None of the features by itself are intractable, it’s the combination that takes time (and the error cases – when moving files around, one has to handle file name collisions which mess up the connection to sidecars etc.)
There certainly may be apps already available that do what you want, though I’m not aware of them. If you want to use RAW Power for this, then I do plan to get there, sooner rather than later.
Not right now, but it’s a very high priority feature for an upcoming release (not the 3.1 release which is about to go into beta but I plan to put it in the one following that).
Yes, I’ve noticed the same thing about the detent. The next version (3.1) has a better approach to managing the detent / haptic for the center point of sliders.
I will take a look to see if it is straightforward to change the additional area’s color. I don’t think there is a better way to crop when you use the scale factor slider other than to just drag to the corners.
You are correct camera default presets are not in the iOS app. I’ll make a note to see what would be involved to get them working on iOS.
I can see why it might be fiddly to use the “gear down” mode with a pencil (dragging down and then dragging left and right). But I am unclear about what you mean by fine control vs. a workaround. How (specifically) would you like it to work with a pencil?
In RAW Power for iOS, there is a way to slow down the sliders but not on the Mac (it’s more difficult to do something like this on Mac just because of how sliders are implemented by Apple on the two platforms).
Until I figure a straightforward way to do that, you can use the data entry interface. To do that, double-click on the value (on the right of the slider). You can either enter a value or you can use the up / down arrow keys with various modifiers (shift / option, etc.) to nudge the values. Option-arrow changes the values very slowly.
I would not expect a lag after 20-30 images, but perhaps there is an overuse of memory. I will have to look into it. Please do this:
Open Activity Monitor
Find RAW Power
Click on the Memory tab at the top of the window
What is RAW Power showing for memory use when you are seeing performance issues? Also, how much memory (RAM) do you have?–Nik
There is no direct path on the Mac to export to the Photos library. The need for that on iOS is more critical than on Mac because it’s hard to move files around on iOS. That’s why the feature exists on iOS. Since it’s easy to export to, say, the desktop and then drag directly into a Photos album, I didn’t see an urgent need to add that feature to the Mac. It’s on the list for the future (at some point) though.
