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RSS FeedsHands-on: RAW Power for iOS
(Digital Photography Review)

 
 

9 december 2017 15:49:48

 
Hands-on: RAW Power for iOS
(Digital Photography Review)
 


If you´re a Mac-owning photographer, you probably used-or toyed with, or still stubbornly refuse to give up-Apple´s long-abandoned Aperture application for editing photos and managing your image library. The official replacement, Apple Photos, is targeted at a broader audience and lacks many of the Raw-editing features Aperture was built for. Now, former Aperture development lead Nik Bhatt, via his company Gentlemen Coders, has created RAW Power, a Raw image editor for Mac and iOS that digs deep into Raw editing and throws in some unique features, too. The just-released iOS version works on the iPhone and iPad, and pairs with the macOS version, which was released in 2016. On both platforms, RAW Power operates as both a stand-alone app and as an editing extension in Apple Photos. If you already use Photos to store your photo library, it can still be your hub. RAW Power reads your Photos library directly, including Photos-created special albums for Portrait images, Favorites, and Selfies. Raw Boost A Raw file is the fullest available expression of the output from the camera`s sensor, creating a file with a lot of image data to plumb. Aside from obvious adjustments such as exposure and color, a Raw editor can control aspects specific to the Raw format, such as sharpening and reducing digital noise. RAW Power leans on the Raw image support Apple builds into macOS and iOS. That includes reading Raw files from various cameras (because every model, maddeningly, has its own Raw variation, even by the same manufacturer), as well as how the data is interpreted. Sometimes that means manually circumventing some adjustments. Apple´s Raw converters apply a Boost setting to Raw photos to add color and punch to what would otherwise be a flat appearance. RAW Power can pull that back or turn it off for more control. A Black Boost slider gives you more latitude when adjusting dark portions of the image. Similarly, you can turn off the Gamut Map, which is a ...


 
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