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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%.
Hi Erik,
Thanks for the suggestion. I agree – maintaining a clean, easy to use interface is essential (and hard to do as the features start to pile up).
–Nik
It may also depend on where you touch the control. For example, if the control is at the far right edge, it’s easy to place your finger on the right edge of the device (but not actually over the control). If that happens, then the drag won’t be detected.
Hi,
Sorry that you are getting low resolution emails. That should not be happening. I ran a series of tests but was not able to reproduce the problem. Are you emailing an edited photo, or an unadjusted one? Probably the best way to troubleshoot this is over email. Please contact support@gentlemencoders.com and we can figure out what’s wrong. When we have resolved it, I can post on this thread.
Just following up — Version 2.0.1 is now available on the App Store. It contains a fix for this problem. Basically, when you click on a folder, it will use the last-selected sort by default. That way, if you want to view by date-newest, just pick that for the first folder, and as you tunnel down, the other folders will also sort that way.
Hi,
Thank you for your suggestions. I have a question about your first suggestion — how do you arrange the pieces of the workspace when you browse vs. when you edit? A Save Workspace command is a good idea, but I’d like to understand how you use the app as well.
Having a border around the image is also possible, and not difficult to implement. I will add it to the list for a future release.
—Nik
Hi regixkn,
Thanks for the feedback and your thoughts on future improvements to the app.
Some of these things are definitely possible (on both Mac and iOS). Some are already on iOS.
The biggest issue right now is that the Mac and iOS versions use different sources of information and those sources have different capabilities.
iOS has full library access, but it is also limited by what Apple provides to developers. For example, keywords, captions, and descriptions are not provided.
The standalone Mac version does not have library access. It can read keywords, etc., but lacks a database to store that information.iOS shows videos, Mac doesn’t. That was a deliberate decision based on the two data sources, but videos will probably get added to Mac.
Drag and Drop would be a useful feature. It didn’t make this version due to time constraints.
Can RAW Power get along without a real database? Sure. However, some features are difficult to implement or impractical without one.
I have written a blog post on the blog asking people who use / used Aperture what features they feel are most needed in RAW Power. Please vote!
Hi Charlie,
I’m sorry you are having a problem with the date on your files. By “the Get Info button,” are you referring to the “i” button in the RAW Power standalone editing interface? If you are using 2.0 standalone app, there are two places where the date appears. One is in Info and one is the “i” button when you click Edit. There is no Info for the Photos extension, as it uses the one in Photos itself (Cmd-I).
Do you see the wrong date in both Info and in the “i” button? The dates look right in the tests I have run — perhaps there is something special about your files. Would you mind emailing a RAW with the problem (support@gentlemencoders.com)?
Thanks.
–Nik
Rather than update the user manual (which required people to download it, etc.), I decided to put better help into the application itself. The help menu has a new window which displays the contents of the old manual as individual topics + 2.0 features. This is also available in the extension by pressing the “?” button at the bottom right of the window.
I have not spent any time looking at film simulations, so I don’t know how they might best be supported in the app. That said, I have received a number of requests for it, so it’s on the list for a future release, but I can’t promise anything right now.
Thanks for the question. This is an oversight. Let me look into it to see if there is a simple fix that could be made in the near term. My idea is to basically have folder default to a particular sort (either via preference or whatever the last one was), but I don’t know yet how difficult those would be.
Hi,
If you are using Photos, then you want to use the RAW Power Extension.
You access this within Photos’ Edit view. Click the “…” button and select RAW Power.
When you use the extension, editing information is stored inside the Photos library and edits are non-destructive.
Note: RAW Power will get access to the RAW, unless the image has already been edited (by Photos or by another extension)The “Edit With” feature of Photos converts the RAW to a TIFF and sends that instead. “Edit With” is intended for applications that don’t support RAWs.
Hi Dmitri,
1. I’m not sure why the file sizes would be so different. I do not know how Camera+ does its decode or its export, so it’s hard for me to know for sure. However, it is true that RAW Power TIFF images on iOS are floating point, so they may not compress as well as integer ones. I am working with Apple on a way to create 16-bit integer tiffs using their libraries.
RAW Power generates 16-bit integer PNGs so that is an alternative — they are also losslessly compressed.
2. Pixelmator is able to open 16-bit floating point TIFFs from RAW Power — I just tried it.
3. RAW Power does not have all the features that you listed (like healing or brushing), so it cannot fully replace applications for customers that need those features. It is possible to add many of those features to RAW Power and most of them are on my list for the future. However, there are a lot of features on the list, so I cannot make any promised about when those might appear.
