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It’s definitely possible to access the images in the Photos library in that manner. For example it’s possible to open the photo library package in the Finder and drag the “originals” directory to RAW Power, which would just show you the originals instead of all the thumbnails and whatnot. However, that’s not the intent of the “Photo Library” feature. The Photo Library feature gives you access to synchronized ratings, non-destructive edits that sync over iCloud, integration with the RAW Power Photos extension, and the ability to manipulate the photos library as well.
I should be clear that working with the Photo library manner by accessing internal directories is an unsupported configuration, because Apple does not support people messing around inside the Photo library. You have to be extremely careful if you choose to use the app in this manner. Definitely do not delete any originals, for example (or use Move to Trash). I do not know what else might not work.
Hi,
Photo Library access is only supported with Catalina (macOS 10.15) or later. That’s because Catalina is the first OS that allows 3rd party apps to read/write the Photo library.
I’m puzzled that you got as far as you did with the Photo library. There should be blocks in the app for Photo Library on Mojave (I just checked my Mojave install and the New Photo Library window is disabled). So, there must be a bug in the app that is letting that through – so, sorry for that.
The Photo extension, however, works fine on Mojave because that was added in a much earlier release of MacOS (Sierra or maybe El Capitan – I don’t recall).
Right now there isn’t a way to do that. The Photo Library treats R+J as a single “image” and the RAW Power grid tries to match the look of Photos. It’s technically possible for the app to show both of them separately, but there are some complications that would need to be worked out first.
Hi, I got the PNGs you sent me. There appears to be a lot more detail in the Affinity decode (or more aggressive noise reduction in Apple’s). I don’t know what would be causing that with Apple’s decode, but I’m glad that converting to DNG helps. If you want to send the original over email, I can see if there is a way to get a better result.
Are you asking if there is a way to make spacebar also hide the filmstrip? Right now, there isn’t a way to do that – you have to hide the filmstrip yourself using Cmd-Shift-V or the various buttons.
No, there isn’t. It’s a missing feature and is on the list for a future release. I’m hoping it’s easy to do (off the top of my head, I don’t remember why I didn’t put it in the first place, so there may be some edge case or something like that).
Yes, RAW Power has been optimized for the M1. In my experience, 16 GB is the way to go, especially because you cannot add memory later. I have not played with other apps on the M1, but since I have one of Apple’s developer prototype kits “DTK” rather than a production unit, my experiments would not be applicable anyway.
Please email the original to support@gentlemencoders.com. We can continue the discussion that way.
There are no special considerations. Answers to your specific questions:
1) Will Raw Power be able to view all the photos, even if some of them are optimized versions instead of original?
Yes
2) Will Raw Power request that Photos download the original version from iCloud, or does this need to be done manually in Photos before editing in Raw Power?
RAW Power will use the Photo library to download the images on demand. You do not need to use Photos. In addition, there is a “batch download” feature in the app, so you can download the images you are interested in ahead of working. You do not need to use that though.
3) What about if I’m just culling / rating photos using Raw Power? Safe to assume this can be done with the optimized image (assuming answer to #1 above is “yes”)
Yes, the optimized image is generally fine. However, that image is often an embedded JPEG, so it may either be a) small or b) different-looking from the RAW (as embeddeds can be)
JPEGs built by the camera (including the embedded JPEGs) will have a lot of in-camera processing applied, including color, sharpness, noise reduction, and more. The RAW does not have any of that applied. When you are viewing the image before going into edit you are usually looking at the JPEG. Then, when the RAW loads, you are viewing the RAW. Each decoder applies some amount of improvement to the RAW, but it’s going to less (and different) from the camera. That is the cause of the shift.
Affinity Photo uses a different RAW converter – if they are actually allowing you to edit the RAW, then their rendition should have similar effects. It’s a different converter, so how they choose to render the RAW will be different (for example, they may apply more processing than Apple does).
–Nik
Here are the rules.
iCloud will only sync a library if it’s the System Photo Library.
The System Photo Library does not need to be connected to iCloud.
RAW Power can only read the System Photo Library.A VM will probably not work super well for editing images, because GPU acceleration generally does not work in VMs and RAW Power is very reliant on a fast GPU.
If you create a separate user, with the same iCloud account, then yes, they will be merged. However, my idea was for people who have both an iCloud library and a non-iCloud library and they want to be able to work with them independently. Switching between those with Photos is a pain and it’s error-prone, compared with just switching users.
