“RAW Power” App Brings Aperture Style Interface & Functions to Mac Photos… for just $10 (Limited Time Offer)

A fellow FR-reader just dropped me a link to a RAW converter software that might be interesting for some fellow X-shooters out there. It’s called RAW Power.

RAW Power is a Photos extension plug-in (but can be used also as standalone app), that gives you complete access to the macOS RAW engine in an intuitive interface that will feel very familiar to Aperture users largely because of who wrote it, Nik Bhatt, who was the man behind Apples Aperture. Nik Bhatt has left Apple and today creates Apps such as RAW Power.

RAW Power uses the same technology that sits underneath Photos, but this plug-in gives you access to all the controls to devolop the RAW images. You can make fixes and improvements that are simply impossible to make in Photos. It also has some features that were not present even in Aperture.

You can now grab RAW Power for $10 bucks (limited time offer), and use it as standalone App or embedd it into Apples Photos Application.

UPDATE: As Ben noted in the comments:

Uses Apple’s macOS built-in RAW support… so it doesn’t work with compressed RAF

I’ll share 2 videos below, the first one is a short introduction to RAW Power, and the second one is a video 34 minutes chat at TWiP with Nik Bhatt.

Iridient Windows Version Coming This Year: “Fujifilm Compatible Converter a Top Priority”

Iridient Windows

Back in February 2016, Brian from Iridient said here, that he’s working on a Windows version of his software. The expected release date was March/April. But since then, we haven’t heard and seen anything anymore.

Some Windows users were worried, that Brian dropped the project. But I’m glad to report that this is not the case.

Brian just confirmed via Twitter here: “Windows products are still on my schedule for this yr, Fujifilm compatible converter a top priority“.

Iridient Developer is considered by many X-shooters the best RAW converter for X-Trans files. Brian has a page on his website here, where he lists many reviews and articles about Iridient.

NOTE: I’m not affiliated with Iridient. I never got money or a free license or anything else like that from Brian. My only goal is to report as objectively as I can about this software, and I consider it definitely something every X-shooters should try out one day. Free Trial is available (for MAC only until now).