PhotoLab Mac Users : Status on Catalina (formerly Don't upgrade to CATALINA topic)

[allanimal]

In the case of a Photos extension, there’s a criteria that the photo needs not have any correction applied in Photos to have the RAW passed along.

Is there a way to make PhotoLab function as an Photos extension so we can send RAW from Apple Photos?
If not, is there a plan to support this in the future?

[gaperklake]

I always start my post processing with PL, and I’m still most happy and excited by the results, which always includes 2 or 3 trips to NIK.

I am on Catalina (10.15.1) and have not had any issues inside PL. However, the completed files I send to the latest versions of LR and PS will not open there. I receive an error that the files are either unsupported or damaged. This happens with PL 2 and 3. (When I first opened PL 3 and got the introduction screen, I chose ‘Merge’.)

Thanks so much for your help,

Guy

Thanks

[Joanna (Joanna Carter)]

Is there a way to make PhotoLab function as an Photos extension so we can send RAW from Apple Photos?

As far as I can tell, Photos doesn’t send RAW files to its extensions, it creates a jpeg of the image in its current edited state.

[allanimal]

Is there a way to make PhotoLab function as an Photos extension so we can send RAW from Apple Photos?

As far as I can tell, Photos doesn’t send RAW files to its extensions, it creates a jpeg of the image in its current edited state.

Now I can’t speak for Catalina, but in Mojave, photos will send RAW files to extensions (Raw Power, Graphic Converter, Luminar, etc,) if the RAW photo has not been edited yet. DXO even has an app, DXO Optics Pro for Photos that receives a RAW from photos. It’s a very limited & outdated app, I’d like to be able to do the same with PhotoLab.

[shutterfreak (Olivier Biot)]

The way I understand the role Photos.app can play in your workflow, is only the collection of your processed images. Not the raw unprocessed images.

When using Adobe Lightroom or DxO PhotoLab, you’re still working “ahead” of Photos.app.

Think of it as Photos.app being a digital photo album. You don’t tape film rolls in a photo album

When you want to import images to Photos.app, you can ask to consolidate the photo library, which will effectively create copies of the imported photos in the file system bundle (the internal data structure where Photos.app does its magic). Whatever happens to your exported files (outside the Photos.app database) is then no longer a concern for Photos.app.

[allanimal]

The way I understand the role Photos.app can play in your workflow, is only the collection of your processed images. Not the raw unprocessed images.

Then you don’t understand the Photos app. It can handle RAW files just fine. I have thousands of NEFs in my library - photos is my current DAM after Aperture was killed off.

I can edit RAWs in Photos or I can send the RAW to any extension app that supports RAWs to edit there. Afterwards, the edited image is available in Photos. Subsequent edits will not get the RAW (unless going back to the same extension that supports this), unless in photos you revert the edits and go back to RAW.

But the point is moot, until DXO enables PhotoLab to work as an extension, or I switch to a new DAM (which I will do, as soon as I find the right one).

[gaperklake]

I worked this out myself. Thanks,

[Markmark1960 (Mark Seymour)]

Any news of an update for Silver Effex and DXO Black n White please

[arthur]

Also, I tried opening the CR3 raw files from a HD, but they show as ? in DXO PL2. I hoped that would be a workaround. Sadly it’s not…

[arthur]

Thanks.

I just updated Catalina and I’m running DxO PhotoLab 2.3.3.47
Photos still don’t show in the Photo Library.