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You are correct camera default presets are not in the iOS app. I’ll make a note to see what would be involved to get them working on iOS.
I can see why it might be fiddly to use the “gear down” mode with a pencil (dragging down and then dragging left and right). But I am unclear about what you mean by fine control vs. a workaround. How (specifically) would you like it to work with a pencil?
In RAW Power for iOS, there is a way to slow down the sliders but not on the Mac (it’s more difficult to do something like this on Mac just because of how sliders are implemented by Apple on the two platforms).
Until I figure a straightforward way to do that, you can use the data entry interface. To do that, double-click on the value (on the right of the slider). You can either enter a value or you can use the up / down arrow keys with various modifiers (shift / option, etc.) to nudge the values. Option-arrow changes the values very slowly.
I would not expect a lag after 20-30 images, but perhaps there is an overuse of memory. I will have to look into it. Please do this:
Open Activity Monitor
Find RAW Power
Click on the Memory tab at the top of the window
What is RAW Power showing for memory use when you are seeing performance issues? Also, how much memory (RAM) do you have?–Nik
There is no direct path on the Mac to export to the Photos library. The need for that on iOS is more critical than on Mac because it’s hard to move files around on iOS. That’s why the feature exists on iOS. Since it’s easy to export to, say, the desktop and then drag directly into a Photos album, I didn’t see an urgent need to add that feature to the Mac. It’s on the list for the future (at some point) though.
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
