I have that here, but find Photos + RP is mostly enough for now.
For my needs it does almost fit the bill well enough, but as you say, could just do with a few extras to make it complete.Īlso have a look at HashPhotos, which is just a browser/organiser app, which adds a lot of functionality that Photos misses. No problem, I only switched to Photos + Raw Power last year (although I've used Photos since it was iPhotos in various fashions). Thanks Andy - yeah I watched their video about ratings and culling out stuff - seems alone for me to be worth that alone as Photos is fine for me in most regards but organizing tools within it could be a notch or two better. Just something to think about, you can use Photos, and own copies of Pixelmator, Raw Power, Power Photos, and Affinity Photo for less than one year's subscription to Lightroom, and have a very powerful collection of tools that should cover almost every editing and management option you may need, as they're all good at different things, but keep everything within the Photos (and iCloud if you wish) ecosystem for centralised storage. As mentioned there is also Power Photos, but that is more about just organising the library, and was originally designed to merge from, or split into, multiple libraries, and can manage duplicates very well. To be fair, you probably won't find a perfect 'all in one' app to do everything. It is excellent for basic editing of Raw images, and does a good job on bitmap images too, although possible no better than Photos can manage - navigating is easier though, as you can move to the next image easier.įor your needs, you might be better with Pixelmator, as it also works very well alongside the Photos library, and has more powerful tools than Photos - although it misses some things, such as Red-Eye fixing, you need to go back into Photos for that. It also adds a better ability to apply star ratings, but doesn't make use of Keywords (or even show ones applied in Photos). It allows many of the same tasks as Photos, such as new Folders and Albums, moving stuff about, and can use its own sorting methods. Raw Power does have some management tools that help using Photos, but I wouldn't say that was its primary intended use.
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I'm using Photos and Raw Power here, although mostly on an iPad Pro now, as I'm retiring my iMac gradually, but still use it for some tasks. Is anyone using Photos + RAW power for its catalog management capabilities? For 95% of my needs (I only shoot JPEG/HEIC) Photos is fine and if I need anything more on the editing side I use Pixelmator but RAW photos which I saw mentioned on an earlier thread seems like an interesting extension to use. Much better organizational tools than either Photos or Raw Power. And a great Swiss Army knife of graphics tools that works with Photos is Graphic Converter. It can reach into the System Library, and can work independently of Photos, but it's not what I would buy to organize images.īut I guess if it fills in something Photos doesn't do? Pixelmator is much different than Raw Power, so I don't see how it helps with that.įor actually managing libraries PowerPhotos is a nice tool though. But still it does fill some deficiencies in Photos, like being able to swap colors or use LUTs, although not sure how effective that is with JPEG.Īnd not sure how it helps with organizing if one already uses Photos.
It works with them but its strength is with raw. I like Raw Power, but I can't see why it would be that helpful for JPEG and HEIC. Not sure I should have outright used the DAM term. Apologies - let me clarify as I've done some further digging and Raw Power video watching - seems like this has some useful catalog management stuff to better help with Apple Photos.