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Hi,
I’m glad you like the app. Version 3.0 is underway and will have a ton of new features. As far as working directly with the Photos library, unfortunately, Apple does not currently allow that on Mac. It’s possible they will add it in the future – when they do, I will support it in the standalone version of RAW Power.
Hi Tom,
If you are referring to the RAW Images album, then it can take a little while to finish loading. However, it should not take anywhere like 10 minutes for 30 RAWs. I have received a couple of reports like yours, but we have never seen this issue on our own devices, so I have been unable to fix it.
I would love to get to the bottom of this bug. You can certainly delete and reinstall the app to see if that works. However, if it doesn’t, and you would like to work together on this bug, I can send you some test builds to see why the app is getting stuck. Please email me (I know you have emailed me separately about beta testing) if you’d like to do that.
Thanks and sorry about the bug.
Hi,
The standalone version of RAW Power for Mac does not have any synching functionality at this time. The Mac Photos extension can sync through iCloud, because it is integrated with the Photos library. Unfortunately, Apple does not provide a way (currently) for standalone apps to integrate with the Photos library. Sorry.
RAW Power does not have a generic plugin function. However, it does support Lightroom. You can download the Lightroom plugin by going to the downloads page: https://support.gentlemencoders.com/downloads/
Hi Vlado,
Thanks for the suggestion. On iOS, there is already the ability to reorder adjustments (in the menu in the upper left corner of Edit). You cannot totally hide adjustments, but you can collapse them by tapping on the titles.
Mac doesn’t have the reorder feature, but it’s planned for 3.0. I also hope to add a hide feature as well, but am not sure yet.
By hybrid app, if you mean using Apple’s Marzipan technology, then no. However, RAW Power on iOS and Mac share a lot of code.
That should not be happening, but there could be a bug in the app. If you can please email support@gentlemencoders.com, we can troubleshoot it.
Thanks.
When you view a RAW photo in RAW Power, the initial appearance may not match the final appearance. This is because the initial image is a JPEG generated by the camera. A subsequent image is generated by decoding the RAW. Decoders do not generally attempt to match the camera JPEG in appearance, but instead strive to make the best looking image they can.
You may not see this shift in other apps because most of them use an Import procedure that replaces the camera JPEG with one created by their decoder. This avoids the shift, but takes a lot longer and uses more disk space. For example, Photos and Lightroom both do this, though you can still see the difference if you view the imported image before they have a chance to replace the camera JPEG. RAW Power does not do this, both to make viewing images faster and to decrease the disk space used by the app.
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%.
