[Nik Bhatt]

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.

[Nik Bhatt]

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.

[Nik Bhatt]

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).

[Nik Bhatt]

This was fixed in one of the 3.0.x dot releases. Sorry about the bug – we should have caught it.

[Nik Bhatt]

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.

[Nik Bhatt]

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.

[Nik Bhatt]

Hi,

I’m sorry you are encountering issues copying and pasting adjustments. I tried the steps that you listed, but I cannot seem to reproduce the problem. Here is a link to a video that I made: https://www.dropbox.com/t/0YGKECOICyEBwF6M

If you don’t mind, please check that out (and maybe do the same steps to see if that works). If you can also make a video for me, I can try those steps as well. You can post a link here, or email support@gentlemencoders.com.

Thanks.

–Nik

[Nik Bhatt]

It’s not simple for the app to determine which presets are currently applied. Not impossible, but not simple – it would have to look at each preset and then look at the current state of the adjustments to see what was still valid (for example, if you apply the Red Filter Black and White Preset, but then change the amount of red, the preset is not still applied – I guess (?)). This is how Auto Enhance works – it compares the current adjustment slider positions to the ones set by Auto Enhance. If they are the same, then the auto enhance button lights up.

[Nik Bhatt]

Unfortunately, there isn’t a way to avoid that dialog.

[Nik Bhatt]

Hi Imme,

The edits are not preserved because of the way that the images are being imported. Apple Photos does not read in RAW Power adjustments.

There are other ways to do this that will preserve your edits.

If you are using macOS Catalina, you can edit images in the Photos library using the RAW Power app (instead of the extension).
To do that:
1) Import your images from the SD card straight into Photos
2) Using the RAW Power app, pick Files > New Photo Library Window
3) Edit the images – the changes will be saved into the photo library and sync over iCloud.

If you are using Mojave, then you have to use the RAW Power Photos extension. In that case, I would do this:
1) Import from SD Card to your local disk (no need to use iCloud here)
2) Select images with RAW Power using ratings or flags, or whatever
3) Import the selected images into Photos
4) Edit with RAW Power Photos extension.

Does that help?

–Nik

[Nik Bhatt]

RAW Processing should always appear on any RAW image. If it doesn’t, then it’s a bug. Can you email me at support@gentlemencoders.com so we can work through this problem?

[Nik Bhatt]

Not yet – I plan to add the ability to import and export between the file browser and Photo library with all adjustments etc. Definitely on the list.

[Nik Bhatt]

Hi Erik,

iPhone RAWs are inherently noisier than iPhone JPEGs. That’s because they don’t benefit from multiple image fusion and the various computational photography algorithms that Apple can apply when making a JPEG.

As far as removing the setting, it’s possible, but that would leave a hole in the interface. There isn’t a second camera app that RAW Power integrates with.

[Nik Bhatt]

Right now, the answer is “no” (well, the answer is “yes, but not easily”). However, I have two features I’d like to add. One is iCloud Drive functionality for the file browser & Files app.. The other is some kind of export / import of adjustments and rating data. Both would serve that purpose.

[Nik Bhatt]

Hi Tim,

I can see that the way presets work may be confusing, especially if they work differently in each app. This is how they work in RAW Power:
1) the order doesn’t matter
2) it doesn’t matter if you apply them multiple times.

That’s because presets are not much more than an automated way of setting up adjustments. The order that adjustments are applied is fixed (unlike Photoshop with its layers), so whether you apply A+B or B+A, you get the same result (there are some edge cases around automatic adjustments, but in general the order you apply presets is irrelevant).

All that really matters is the Add vs. Replace. Add will combine the preset with the existing adjustments, while Replace removes the existing adjustments in favor of the preset.

A history would provide insight into what operations were performed, that’s true. It’s something I have considered. History usually ends up containing an overwhelming amount of data, so it’s never been something I have found very useful in general (though it is useful on occasion).

However, history would not eliminate add vs. replace because those are different ways of applying presets.

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