

I would guess you'd need to pay money to upgrade the iCloud storage capacity to accommodate. I have tried using it for a modest collection (57,000 images, about 500GB), and the library structure can fall down dramatically, and lose a lot of work. If you're really considering uploading the Raw originals to a cloud for multi device editing, I wouldn't consider Photos, just as an opinion. Im about to buy affinity photo but would like to check the above first.Īnything else I should consider with this proposed workflow. and will this edited NEF be available in the iCloud Photo Library - so I can download original to make further edits on a different device? if I do this will the changes save back to the original NEF in Apple photos (I wish to avoid having to create multiple file types to make edits). I need help understanding a couple of thingsġ) is apple photos a suitable decompression engine for lossless compressed 12bit NEF files?Ģ) As I understand it you can choose to edit in affinity photo. When in photos I would like to click edit in affinity photo. I use all Mac stuff, mbp / iMac / iPad / iPhone. These are then available as jpeg previews across all devices. Ideally I would like to import NEF files into Apple photos. Im trying to develop a NEF workflow that’s simple. I have just moved back to Nikon (D750) after 5 years shooting with Fuji. You can see samples on my public stream, they're all processed from RAW in wrote: I shoot RAW only, usually about 300-1200 photos in a set. I've been using darktable for the last 4 years exclusively with my Nikon D5100, D5500, and now the Fuji X-T20. And it's open-source so all your data are belong to you, no locked-in proprietary formats.ĭarktable is free/open-source so you could just try that without spending any money: The NEFs are not modified in anyway, the saved operations from XMP are applied on top of it to export the final JPGs (they call it non-destructive editing). That way, you can go back to make further editings anytime. ) The NEF files as-is will be underexposed and flat by default (the camera applies different settings and color profile to generate SOOC JPG).ĭarktable saves your operations on the image into sidecar XMP files (similar to LR), so you can save/back up the XML together with the NEF files.

) to multiple images at once, some settings can be applied automatically (lens correction, sharpening, NR. You could apply the same settings (WB, exposure. The reason I suggest that is because LR/darktable are more suited to processing a lot of photos from RAW. Another possible workflow: leave the NEF outside of Apple Photos, use LR or darktable to process the NEFs first, then import the exported JPGs into Apple Photos.
