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My plan is to release 3.0 for both iOS and Mac toward the end of the year, after Apple releases the new versions of macOS and iOS.
Brushing is planned for 3.0. I have been posting progress on Twitter recently. Here are links to those tweets:
https://twitter.com/gentcoders/status/1103405842437554176
https://twitter.com/gentcoders/status/1103407220811751424
https://twitter.com/gentcoders/status/1105204760930443272
If you use twitter, you may want to follow @gentcoders as I plan to post other progress as well.
Lens Correction comes from Apple’s RAW engine and it only supports a subset of the cameras. Apple’s code relies on information stored in the metadata of the RAW file, which isn’t always present (and there are probably some other limitations of their code as well).
Generally, DSLRs aren’t supported by Apple’s lens correction, while fixed lens cameras (e.g., Sony RX 100) and many Micro 4/3rds are.
I hope to add a more general lens correction feature to the app, but I don’t have a time table for that at this point.
Hi,
Thanks for buying the apps; I’m surprised that the sync is working for some devices but not others. The apps themselves don’t do any of the synching – they just store data in the photo library and Apple takes care of synching it through iCloud Photo Library (in other words, the apps mostly don’t know that iCloud Photo Library even exists [except for knowing that images have to be downloaded]).
Do edits you make on the iPhone get sent to the other devices?
Also, I wonder if there is something “stuck” that is causing the iPhone to not get the right data. I suggest the following:
1) On a device other than the iPhone, use the built-in Photos app (not RAW Power) and pick one of the photos that’s not working.
2) Edit > Revert to Original
3) Then, make an edit with that same Photos app (like a filter, or a crop).
4) If you go to the iPhone, does the edit appear?
5) If you go into Edit on the iPhone, can you adjust the crop or change the filter?
Assuming that all works you can repeat steps 1-5, but instead of using Photos, use RAW Power. That may “unstick it”.If those first steps don’t work with Photos, then perhaps there is something messed up in iCloud.
Yes, being able to keep the RAW Power adjustments up inside Photos would be great. However, this is a limitation of Photos. It only allows extensions to work on a single image, and when the extension has completed its work, Photos switches control back to its interface.
Brushes are a high priority for the app. In fact, I’m working on brushing right now! I am hopeful that this feature will be in the 3.0 release, but software is inherently difficult to predict. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
RAW Power does not ship with preset looks for specific cameras. On the Mac version, you can create a “camera preset” which is your custom look for a specific camera model. When you do that, RAW Power will automatically apply those adjustments to any image shot with that camera.
Hi,
As far as #1, my guess is that the GPU is unable to display the image at full size. If you try a JPEG, does it work any better?
For #2, the Preview Size option controls the size that previews are made after you edit an image. If the image is not edited, then the app will use either the embedded JPEG or the RAW, depending. The app will sometimes zoom to 50% rather than 100% when you are not in Edit, but once you are in Edit, it should always go to 100%.
Hi Erik,
Thanks for the suggestion. I agree – maintaining a clean, easy to use interface is essential (and hard to do as the features start to pile up).
–Nik
It may also depend on where you touch the control. For example, if the control is at the far right edge, it’s easy to place your finger on the right edge of the device (but not actually over the control). If that happens, then the drag won’t be detected.
Hi,
Sorry that you are getting low resolution emails. That should not be happening. I ran a series of tests but was not able to reproduce the problem. Are you emailing an edited photo, or an unadjusted one? Probably the best way to troubleshoot this is over email. Please contact support@gentlemencoders.com and we can figure out what’s wrong. When we have resolved it, I can post on this thread.
Just following up — Version 2.0.1 is now available on the App Store. It contains a fix for this problem. Basically, when you click on a folder, it will use the last-selected sort by default. That way, if you want to view by date-newest, just pick that for the first folder, and as you tunnel down, the other folders will also sort that way.
Hi,
Thank you for your suggestions. I have a question about your first suggestion — how do you arrange the pieces of the workspace when you browse vs. when you edit? A Save Workspace command is a good idea, but I’d like to understand how you use the app as well.
Having a border around the image is also possible, and not difficult to implement. I will add it to the list for a future release.
—Nik
Hi regixkn,
Thanks for the feedback and your thoughts on future improvements to the app.
Some of these things are definitely possible (on both Mac and iOS). Some are already on iOS.
The biggest issue right now is that the Mac and iOS versions use different sources of information and those sources have different capabilities.
iOS has full library access, but it is also limited by what Apple provides to developers. For example, keywords, captions, and descriptions are not provided.
The standalone Mac version does not have library access. It can read keywords, etc., but lacks a database to store that information.iOS shows videos, Mac doesn’t. That was a deliberate decision based on the two data sources, but videos will probably get added to Mac.
Drag and Drop would be a useful feature. It didn’t make this version due to time constraints.
Can RAW Power get along without a real database? Sure. However, some features are difficult to implement or impractical without one.
I have written a blog post on the blog asking people who use / used Aperture what features they feel are most needed in RAW Power. Please vote!
Hi Charlie,
I’m sorry you are having a problem with the date on your files. By “the Get Info button,” are you referring to the “i” button in the RAW Power standalone editing interface? If you are using 2.0 standalone app, there are two places where the date appears. One is in Info and one is the “i” button when you click Edit. There is no Info for the Photos extension, as it uses the one in Photos itself (Cmd-I).
Do you see the wrong date in both Info and in the “i” button? The dates look right in the tests I have run — perhaps there is something special about your files. Would you mind emailing a RAW with the problem (support@gentlemencoders.com)?
Thanks.
–Nik
