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Hi and welcome!
If you are asking why the RAW Processing adjustment is not affected by Auto Enhance, that is normal behavior. Auto Enhance examines the image for many characteristics, one of which is over exposure. When it detects that the image is overexposed (has many pixels that are greater than 1.0), then it uses features of the RAW Processing adjustment to correct the overexposure. However, for well exposed (or underexposed) images, it tends not to do anything with the RAW Processing adjustment. That said, it could be smarter about underexposure, and could move the black point slider – I’ll make a note of that.
–Nik
For performance reasons, the app uses file creation date, rather than EXIF date for sorting. Usually those are the same, but the creation date sometimes gets reset. If that happened during the copy, then that would explain things. I’ll make a note to add alphabetical sorting to an upcoming release which will help in these cases.
RAW Power does not have a DNG export feature. It is on the list for a future release.
Thanks for letting me know how you would like to use the app through iCloud (but not with iCloud Photos).
That’s interesting – I have not tried that before; I’ll have to keep that one in my pocket for another day. I hope it continues to help.
Hi,
I am planning to add the ability to export adjustments information from the various apps so that you can sync changes as you suggested. It’s a bunch of work, so it won’t be happening very soon, but it’s a priority.
Please note that RAW Power can work with the Photos library directly (on Catalina), so you don’t need to use the Extension and the limitations that Apple puts on them.
It’s possible to store the adjustment information into DNG and read it back into RAW Power. However, other apps would not be able read or understand the data because the adjustments themselves are RAW Power-only (I can store data that they could read, but they would interpret it incorrectly). I’ll make a note to add that to the feature list.
I’m sorry that you are encountering issues with the current version on your iMac. RAW Power 3 does push the machine more than 2.0 did, especially the GPU. The amount of RAM and hard disk space should not be a factor.
Which GPU do you have? I may be able to suggest some ways to configure the app to reduce the load on the computer.
Yes, you can click on the double-headed arrow between the two Custom text fields. That switches the direction of the crop for built-in crops and custom ones.
Yes, you can click on the double-headed arrow between the two Custom text fields. That switches the direction of the crop for built-in crops and custom ones.
Thanks for sending me the video – the problem appears to be specific to RAW+JPEG pairs, which your video pointed out to me.
This is what I have determined. The following does not work:
Edit an R+J image
Copy Adjustments
Paste onto another R+J image (by right-clicking on it)This works for me:
Edit an R+J Image
Copy Adjustments
Click on another R+J image so you enter Edit
Paste adjustments.Here is a link to a video showing the two approaches: https://www.dropbox.com/t/deoT6dOoIuEebJsE
I’ll work on a fix for the next release. Sorry about the bug.
Hi Bob – sorry I didn’t see this message until just now.
JPEGs are shown in the thumbnail strip for performance reasons. Photos will edit the JPEG, while RAW Power will edit the RAW. The next version of RAW Power will have the ability to choose between the RAW or the JPEG.
When you edit the RAW in RAW Power, the original is “locked” into place as the RAW. You are looking at the results of the edit you did in RAW Power. Switching is disabled by Photos because that would change in the starting point of the adjustment data. In addition, if it let you switch to the JPEG, then what would happen to the RAW Power adjustments? Photos has no way to apply the RAW Power adjustments, so it would have to delete them. Any time you are looking at an image in Photos that was edited by RAW Power, you are looking at a JPEG created by RAW Power.
Yes, I agree 😉 The app has many valuable features for JPEG shooters.
Right now there is no way to avoid the Allow RAW Power dialog – it’s displayed by the system), but I’m looking into a way to delay that so that all edits can be written to the library at once (e.g., when the app quits).
iPhone RAW images still have advantages over JPEGs, even if they are noisier than Apple’s sophisticated ones.
1) they have >8 bits of color depth
2) they are not lossy compressed
3) they can be white balanced much better
4) they will continue to improve in quality as RAW decoding algorithms improve
5) you have control over the decode and can adjust the tone curve and other aspects of the development, like with any RAW.Yes, you are correct. This is a macOS Photos thing that I cannot suppress. The app displays a single save dialog when you use batch processing but not during normal editing. A few customers have also expressed a desire for a way to save the edits without getting the dialog. There is a fair amount of work to do this properly – by adding a commit menu item + alert on exit + alert on launch if the app crashed. I’m concerned that a significant number of customers will not understand this flow and think the app is broken (since edits will not commit to the Photo library and nothing will upload to iCloud until the commit operation occurs). It’s an even bigger problem on iOS because apps don’t quit on iOS – they just get terminated by the OS, so there isn’t a good place to alert or encourage people to commit the edits.
