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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).
Hi Andy,
I’m glad the re-index helped you. I have not heard about multiple revert boxes appearing – that’s a first…
Yes, I think running smaller batches will probably help, especially on iOS.
–Nik
Hi,
Thanks for your suggestions and observations.
1. Changing Enter to keep the data entry field selected – I will look into it
2. Double-clicking the caption – I’ll look into that too
3. Arrows next to the sliders – my initial impression is that the UI would look very noisy and complicated, so I’m not inclined to make that change.I do not know for sure, but I would expect new camera support would come out around the time of the fall OS releases. They may add the support to the shipping OS and the new one, or just the new one.
Erik – thank you for jumping in. I was going to suggest the same thing.
David – Though the names are the same, the underlying RAW Power H&S algorithm is different than the one in Aperture’s H&S. Most of the filters in Aperture are private to that application, so there are not available for me to use.
Deepen and Lighten are different from either. One of the key differences between those and either of the H&S filters is that Deepen and Lighten maintain contrast (among other benefits) which keeps images from becoming washed out.
–Nik
Hi,
I’m sorry the app is crashing on you so much. iOS is a challenging platform to write for – if an app uses the tiniest amount more memory than the system can support, the app is instantly terminated by the OS. I have made significant improvements to Auto Enhance for the next release (3.1). It uses much less memory and is much faster as well. That should help a lot with the first crash.
As far as the other one, it’s hard to tell right now. If you are interested in beta testing the 3.1 release, please email support@gentlemencoders.com and I can put you on the list. Maybe we can figure out the second one too.
RAW Power will be native on the ARM Macs. I have one of Apple’s DTK units, so I have been able to build and test RAW Power on an ARM-based Mac (it required no changes).
