The basic problem here is that Apple is thinking different, and if you don’t get on their wavelength, you’ll just sit there scratching your head wondering what you should do or how to do the thing you want to do. Didn’t expect that, did you? As much as we all lamented the loss of iPhotos and Aperture from Apple, I think most people aren’t really giving the replacement, Photos, a real chance.
That said, I have no financial interest in you buying the product I get nothing for recommending it).
#Affinity photo sharpen for free#
( Disclosure: one of the principals of the company producing this product is a friend, and provided me a copy for free on occasion I’ve suggested changes or features for the program. The features and UI are initially a bit overwhelming to novice users, but like PM, there’s a ton of user customization that’s available if you take the time to learn the full product. So yes, I have and use both products, just for different things. Whereas with PM my concentration is on rating and annotating as fast as possible, with FRV my concentration is on dealing with exposure and setting issues while reviewing images. FastRawViewer isn’t quite as deep at the ingest and annotating capabilities as PM, but it serves up a different set of options that are useful when browsing raw images: the ability to clearly assess exposure and even make some adjustments that the Adobe converters will pick up. If you need to develop a catalog of images so you can completely organize and find them, Photo Mechanic Plus is a higher cost version (currently US$229) that will do just that for you. I can ingest, browse and rate, and even annotate images faster in PM than any other product I’ve seen. If you’re using raw files, PM is one of two browsers that are are really fast (see also next product). PM (as we users call it) can do things like ingest from multiple card readers simultaneously, create a backup of an ingest simultaneously, deal with IPTC and keyword information, assign player or other information based upon shortcut lists you create ahead of time, and even perform simple actions like cropping. But that’s actually why I still use it, as it can do things that other products can’t, at least if you’re willing to learn all its capabilities. I’ll warn you up front, it’s geeky, not friendly. Below are the software products I can currently use and recommend and a brief description as to why. It’s past time that I update my software recommendations.
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