RAW Power 4+

Mask

this is a very good app, but not enough masks

Purchase lost after update

Latest update is not aware of full version purchase I made earlier. Restore purchase does not work

Відповідь розробника ,

I'm sorry you are having problems with the new version. Version 3.3 is a FREE update for existing customers. However, there is a bug in 3.3 which does not identify previous purchases correctly. You do NOT have to buy the app again. These bugs have been fixed in Version 3.3.1. If you bought the in-app purchase but you bought an older version of the app, let me know so I can help you with a refund. You can email me at support@gentlemencoders.com. I have fixed both bugs in version 3.3.1. To check the version, go to the main menu in the upper left, and tap About RAW Power. You want version 3.3.1 (331.05). If you are running 330, please update with the App Store.

The best RAW processor for iOS

I tested RAW Power during one week after purchase. Here is my review.

1. I studied all the RAW developing software for iOS, and found that RAW Power is the SOLELY fully functional RAW processor in the moment. Only two possible competitors to RAW Power exist for iOS. Consider them in detail, please.

(a) Adobe Lightroom for iOS allows everything of RAW editing. But saving work on disc and any other location is locked except of... Adobe Creative Cloud, which is expensive: $120/year. Unacceptable.

(b) Darkroom has limited possibilities for editing, and allows saving work to JPEG format only. And this output JPEG looks poor: it seems that Darkroom does export of JPEG images with about 70% quality... This sounds as a “mortal verdict” to this RAW processor. Unacceptable.

JPEG is a compressed file format with a huge loss of quality, because the near pixels are equalized on the average therein. The advantage is that JPEG images take much lesser disc space than lossless TIF or PNG bitmap images. The loss of quality due to the so-called JPEG artifacts (the averaged blocks of neighbouring pixels) makes the use of JPEG format unacceptable in professional photography. Besides that, JPEG format has problems with printer calibration. This is why only “general purpose” printing labs like the lately deceased “Kodak Express” accept JPEG: such labs do not carry of the image printing quality. While no one pro-grade photolab accepts JPEG, but only lossless TIFs or PNGs, even if they have a 8-bit depth.

Also, RAW images have a 12-bit or 14-but depth (depending on the RAW version). The additional bits that are over the visible 8-bits contain invisible details in shadows and highlights which appear visible in the image development. Contrary, when lifting the shadows or lowering the highlights in an 8-bit image, new details do NOT appear therein. Because professional RAW development means further post-development in a graphic editor (such as Affinity Photo for instance), exporting work to lossless 16-bit TIF or PNG is strictly necessary.

All the pro-grade exporting features are presented in RAW Power. You can save your edited RAWs as both 16-bit TIF/PNG (if keeping in mind further post-development), or as 8-bit TIF/PNG if you mean that the images are finalized and thus can be sent to print.

2. The user interface and editing features.

2a. In RAW Power you can edit the image curve as you feel needed. Professionally RAW editing begins usually from improving the curve, channel-by-channel, then setting up the white balance according to the sample shots of a grey card. In another RAW processor such as Darkroom, for example, the curve can be lifted/lowered in only a few fixed points; this makes the edited curve non-smooth as a broken line. In contrast, RAW Power allows turning the curve up/down and left/right in any its point as you wish. Very good.

2b. In RAW Power all editing tools are grouped in one pictogram row. You open the tools one-by-one: just one tool is opened on the working screen. As a result the tools do not steal much screen space from the image that you edit.

2c. Fast and very stable work. I tested RAW Power during one week, over many hours and with different images. There was no one case of hanging or non-response of the software. Also, RAW Power worked very fast in every case. I thus guess RAW Power has very small system requirements. This is very good at all.

Finally, I conclude that RAW Power is a pro-grade RAW processor for iOS, which provides all the necessary features for high quality developing RAW negatives, and then converting them to lossless TIF or PNG. Surely many pro-grade photo artists will move to iOS (the iPhone + iPad stack) in the near future. I therefore strict recommend PAW Power for both professional photographers and those amateurs who want to get pro-quality of their photographs.

Thank you!