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You’re a bit of a star Nik :-).
I appreciate that iOS will be more restricted than the desktop OS, so I’m never expecting everything to be the same, I just mention things in case they can be achieved.
Cheers.
No worries, at least it’s not as badly iOS limited compared to the Adobe options 😉 (which is one reason why I’ve switched).
No, nothing there at all Erik, there is New, then a naming dialogue with ok and cancel, then that’s it, it’s created. In Edit, I only see a delete symbol or a move symbol. Nothing else.
To confirm, iPadOS 14, not desktop.
Looking at the documentation, it is there in the desktop version, but not mentioned for the iOS version.
For sure, camera default presets would be useful.
Cheers.
Andy
I’ll have a look in the documentation, but I can’t see anything that allows for any of that to happen? (IPadOS 14). There’s only the options for a New Preset, which only offers a name for it, or Edit, which only allows re-ordering or deleting. A far as I can see here anyway.
Cheers.
Just following on from your discussion about editing.
I’ve only just started using Raw Power in the last couple of months, since getting my iPad Pro, and deciding to switch to it as my primary computer device. I have owned RP for some time on the iMac, but didn’t find many occasions to use it. So, I have been experimenting a bit with it now, and the integration with Photos has meant I can now consider ditching Lightroom.
After some trying out of stuff, I have come to this as a current solution.
On my Nikon images (D5100 and now D5300), I’m liking the look that the Provia LUT gives. So, as you have done, I have made a preliminary preset as a starting point, which adds a little Raw sharpening for my budget ‘kit’ lenses. I haven’t worked back to older cameras as yet (I have Olympus, Fuji and Panasonic collected over the last few years). The Astia LUT works well on family wedding pictures.
I then apply Auto Enhance, and then work down and tweak as necessary. I prefer the look that the ‘Levels’ option gives, rather than Curves, which I found can sometimes result in a colour balance I don’t like, the Levels option seems to give more constantly neutral results.
I’m now able to edit images as fast as I did in Lightroom, with equally good, or better, results.
The Sharpen module is very deceiving too, for such a simple adjustment, it works brilliantly well for most images, and seems quite forgiving in how much you can apply.
The only thing I’d like to be able to do in a preset is to turn on the Raw module, without applying fixed settings, but allow it to apply any camera default settings it finds – such as the Luma and Chroma noise settings, which can change dependent on ISO).
Cheers.
It’s not so much the Pencil operation per se’, it’s the operation of a few of the sliders. Particularly Saturation and Vibrancy, the amount of effect applied does not very progressive, so only a very small amount of movement results in too much effect being applied. Actually, now I’ve just gone off and retested, it seems to the the ‘Basics’ panel that suffers with this most, all the rest are really nice and progressive, but the sliders in the ‘Basics’ panel do seem to apply effect quite aggressively. It means that it’s very difficult to get an accurate adjustment point if you only need to add a subtle effect.
All I meant was that this can be eased by using the slowdown technique, but shouldn’t be something I need to use for every adjustment on those sliders. The comment I was making is that the slowdown technique does seem fiddly to use when using a Pencil, as you say, the slide down then across, but I don’t mind that if I didn’t need to use it as much on those sliders. I think that’s maybe part of the nature of the Pencil operation, and me getting more practice using it to some extent.
If I may, sorry, while we’re talking about the Pencil, I also find the centre ‘decent’ position, that has a pause when you go near it, is also quite tricky when using the Pencil, it is too willing to grab the slider spot, and is then fiddly to get moving again (again, eased by using the slowdown technique).
Apart from that, this is an excellent photo app, and I thank you for the great work you’ve done to produce it.
Regards
Andy.
Oh, so stupid of me, I hadn’t spotted I’d replied in the MacOS group, doh. So sorry… this is actually when using iPadOS on an iPad Pro (2020 12.9” model).
I have found the way to slow down the sliders on iPadOS, but it seems fiddly to use with a Pencil, and shouldn’t that be used for fine control, rather than a workaround?
Cheers.
Interesting stuff. I was going to post a related query regarding the sliders, but this seems similar in context perhaps.
Having done quite a few edits now, I have been finding that some sliders seem to be a bit aggressive (perhaps too sensitive might be a better description).
Most are fine, and operate in an expected fashion. But some, particularly saturation and vibrancy, seem to need very fine control to get a sensible amount of effect applied – I’m often ending up at 0.08 or something similar. I wonder if they might need a reverse modifier to switch between slow/fast application of the effect.
I’ve also noticed that they can suffer with lag after editing about 20-30 images. Is this expected? A result of clogging up caches perhaps? If I force quit and relaunch it’s fine again for another 20-30 images. Again this seems to affect some sliders more than others.
Cheers.
Yes it does seem to have helped for sure.
My apologies, I did mean the ‘Modify’ dialogue, although I think it did happen with the Revert too. If I clicked on the ‘Done’ button, I sometimes got the Modify box, or Revert box, pop up twice, and then put me back into Edit mode, after I’d clicked them.
I’ve tried an album with 106 images, and that crashed, although I’ve also done some with over 300 and it’s been fine. These are all 16MP NEF images. So not by any means a consistent issue.
Cheers
Andy.
Hi Nik,
Thanks for the reply. OK, I understand what’s going on a bit more, so no worries.
I think I’ve sorted the second issue, I also started seeing all sorts of weird things happening, such as multiple ‘Revert’ boxes not related to the image I was working on. So I ran the Reindex option, and that seems to be resolved now, as is the crash when editing.
As far as the batch process crash, would it help to run it on smaller sets of images, My albums vary from a handful to many hundreds. Would working on, say, a max of 100 at a time be better?
Cheers, and thank you for an otherwise great photo editor (I also have the Mac version).
Andy
Thanks for the reply Nik, sorry I think I misunderstood the original issue here.
Thank you for clarifying that though, I wasn’t sure if it should be enabled for all rows or not, but that makes sense. Adding a bit of black point adjustment would be certainly useful.
Generally though, I do find the Auto Enhance works pretty well, only a few extra tweaks needed most of the time. As you say though, it does seem to be underexposed images that need the most extra adjustments.
Cheers
Andy.
Hi, a kind of newbie to Raw Power here, I was also about to ask about this in a fresh article, but saw this one first.
I’m using a new iPad Pro, and working on migrating over from Lightroom to Photos + Raw Power, very impressed so far, but I have also noticed that it’s a bit random whether the Raw editing module is activated or not. It’s probably 50% of images not getting it applied using Auto Enhance (whether applied as a batch process, or individually).
iPadOS 13.6, iPad 12.9” 2020
Also happens the same on the MacOS version too (macOS 10.15.6, Raw Power v3.0.4).
Just thought I’d submit as a ‘me too’ effort.
Cheers
Andy
