Although it is not a new review, Google just surfaced for me another article about the fine, young, and fast growing raw photo editor, Nitro Photo by Gentlemen Coders, which is aimed at Apple’s Mac, iPad, and iPhone platforms:
The wonder of it is that it’s not just for iPhone photos. I get good results with my FUJIFILM X-T5 compressed raw photos, too.
And I’m not limited to using Apple’s Photos app with Nitro (although I could, but don’t want to. ) I have my own carefully curated photo folder structure in the Finder.
I’ve been a happy user of Photomator for this purpose for a couple years now! But this seems like a great alternative to keep saved in case Apple decides to sunset it
YES!
I upgraded my ipad this year, largely in part so I could edit my personal photos from my Canon camera on the couch, I don’t want all my digital hobbies to be at my desk
It is a lot of power tools, so the UI is a bit finicky, I imagine best used with some kind of stylus (spent all my money on the ipad ). I loved Aperture and am a very comfortable Lightroom/Photoshop/Adobe Camera Raw user, but I’d rather not attach myself to Adobe any more than necessary, and this is pretty much feature parity with those tools, barring heavy duty masking.
It won’t tempt me away from PhotoLab any time soon, but it’s good to see more options out there.
I would describe this as an ‘early release’ given some of the features it doesn’t have and some of the existing features are very basic.
The one thing that really gives me pause, however, is the fact they seem to be trying to add every feature any other software has. In my experience, this means most of them won’t be particularly good at their task. ON1 was like this when I tested it in 2020 — great feature list but very mediocre results.
PhotoLab is an OK management tool for many. But I got hooked on Lightroom’s keyword hierarchy and nothing else has come close. So I use Lightroom to import from my memory card, then I add tons of keywords to most photos.
I then process entirely in PhotoLab and export. My final step is then to export specially named proxy images from Lightroom that are spotted by Hazel, which uses ExifTool to copy the keyword hierarchy across from proxy to PhotoLab-exported image. Then I upload that to Flickr.
iPhone photos simply exist in Apple Photos. Oh, and I also import those Flickr-ready images into Photos, too.
) I have my own carefully curated photo folder structure in the Finder.
). I loved Aperture and am a very comfortable Lightroom/Photoshop/Adobe Camera Raw user, but I’d rather not attach myself to Adobe any more than necessary, and this is pretty much feature parity with those tools, barring heavy duty masking.