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Hi,
The sluggishness of the crop tool is a known issue. I need to work on its responsiveness. Sorry it’s frustrating.
–Nik
Deepen is analogous to Highlights.
Lighten is similar to shadows.
Highlights and Shadows can affect contrast (especially shadows). On the other hand, Deepen and Lighten maintain overall image contrast.I would not say that Deepen negates Shadows, because Shadows works on the left (dark) part of the histogram and Deepen works on the right (light) part of the histogram.
Black Point is not related to either. Black Point is the definition of black (zero). If you raise or lower the black point, it will affect any adjustment that works on the shadows or darker parts of the image.
Hi Erik,
Yes, I just noticed this as well today. If you drag select in the grid, and none of the images has the double-border (the primary selection), then the app gets confused. In the screenshot you sent me, all of the images have the same thin selection border. I will try to fix that in 3.1.
Hi Erik,
Yes, I just noticed this as well today. If you drag select in the grid, and none of the images has the double-border (the primary selection), then the app gets confused. In the screenshot you sent me, all of the images have the same thin selection border. I will try to fix that in 3.1.
Yes, keywords and other things are certainly possible in the File Browser. it’s something I have been thinking about it, but other features have taken precedence.
I tried some exports today and was not able to reproduce the failure that you are encountering. I suspect that you are hitting an error case inside the code and it’s not cleaning up afterward.
Three things:
1) When you do the first export, when it finishes, the task toolbar icon should return to an empty circle (it also shows progress as a pie chart). Does it do that?
2) The second export – do you see a spinner in the task toolbar icon, or a pie chart? A spinner would indicate a stuck export.
3) Have you found any particular combination of images or export options either works 100% or fails 100%?I usually work with lighten and deepen because they do a nice job of bringing richness to the image. Usually vibrancy rather than saturation. Sometimes a light vignette. The brightness slider can provide unexpected improvements because it’s not a conventional brightness algorithm (it’s a gamma function). Usually a little definition or sharpen. I also use the auto enhance a lot.
Hi,
The auto enhance and auto white balance in RAW Power are combinations of two algorithms: one from Apple and one of my own devising. The Apple auto enhance includes the face balance technology. It works well, but has a downside. Apple provides no practical way for me to use it outside of auto enhance. That is why there is no equivalent “face balance” in the White Balance adjustment. So, it’s adjustment that only appears in auto enhance and is only controlled by the “face icon”.
Glad that you like using it for JPEGs too – as you have found, almost everything in the app is applicable to JPEGs as well as RAWs.
–Nik
Hi
I’m sorry you are encountering problems exporting more than once. I’m not aware of this issue, so I will need to investigate it before I can give you any suggestions. Thanks for letting me know.
—Nik
Hi Erik,
Is my understanding and typical observation correct that this sequence of actions will NOT create raw+jpg pairs? This is what I want as I don’t like raw+jpg pairs.
Yes, that is correct.
I recently followed this workflow for images from my Fujifilm X100V. The Apple raw engine doesn’t support the raws from that camera yet, hence I shouldn’t have imported those raws to Photos in the first place. But I apparently did. The interesting bit is that Photos suddenly showed raw+jpg pairs, indicated by the “J“ in the upper right corner. No error message from Photos. Then I wanted to edit a first image in Raw Power, and rightly so Raw Power gave me an error message.
Any idea of how that behaviour can be explained?
Well, if you imported the RAW+JPEG at the same time, then it makes sense because Photos uses the file extensions to decide when to pair things. However, if you imported the JPEG and RAW separately, then I would not expect that to happen. I just tried that myself and got two different items in the photos grid (I dragged a JPEG to the Photos icon and then I dragged the corresponding RAW [for a Fuji X100V]).
Photos will allow you to import unsupported images, and they should become supported automatically (you will want to quit and relaunch photos for that to work, I believe).
Hi,
You are correct. There is no such feature on the Mac, mostly because I felt it was straightforward to import in Photos from the desktop after an export operation. You are right that it would save a few steps if there was direct Photos import with a album chooser, etc. as in the iOS version. It’s on the list for a future release, but it will be after 3.1.
Please note that you can import into an existing album in Photos by dragging images into the Photos window (and into the album you want).
—Nik
Hi Uwe,
It may be related to the size of the embedded JPEG preview in the RAW file. Can you email me a sample file? (support@gentlemencoders.com). Thanks.
I looked into this some more. I modified the code so that the Enter key also selects the text so that you can type over it without having to do anything with your mouse. That will be 3.1.
I should mention that the shipping app has a behavior that is probably useful to you. You can use the up and down arrow keys to manipulate the value. For example, you type 1.0 for exposure and hit Enter. You can then use the up and down arrows to bump the number some (and option-arrow and shift-arrow will manipulate the values by smaller or larger amounts).
Thanks for the suggestion about clicking on the end points to get it to move a fixed distance. I’ll have to think about it (it’s certainly useful, but it violates how sliders are supposed to work).
