I currently use Lightroom to organise my photos (but Photolab to edit), but it is becoming very expensive. I would rather use iPhoto to organise the photos and link to PhotoLab to edit. At the moment if I use “edit with” in iPhoto it exports a TIFF to PhotoLab which is useless. Can we have a plugin for iPhoto that sends a RAW file to PhotoLab instead. Lots of Mac users would love this.
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Welcome to the forum @MacD
WORKAROUND: There is one way to loosely connect PhotoLab and Fotos.app, if you set the latter to NOT move images to Foto’s database. With this setting, the original files are available in the Finder and PhotoLab can work on the originals.
The workaround does not provide a “plugin” feeling though. It’s a two step process instead, but PhotoLab’s “Add to Fotos” export mode helps to make it less edgy.
- customise original RAW in PhotoLab and export with “Add to Fotos”
- do the rest in Fotos
I occasionally use Fotos, but mainly to provide shared albums.
Great idea!
For iPhone DNG, it’s important that it’s a TIFF file which goes across. Probably the ideal workflow for iPhone photos in the absence of mobile DNG editing would be to do the main RAW corrections in Photos, then use the existing plugin to take a TIFF version with Photos corrections to PhotoLab and then save the edited version back into Photos.
Huge waste of space and not nearly as good as working directly on the mobile DNG in PhotoLab of course. Beggars can’t be choosers.