RawHide For Aperture App Reviews
I was not able to use this software as it requires Aperture, a mother program of sorts, to download any RAW files and apparently Aperture is not available on the U.S. iTunes store nor the company’s website. Waste of time…
Is there somehwere that one can find a user manual? I see that it is processing and tells me that the process is complete and how much the RAW file was and how much the new JPEG file is, but I have no idea where this converted down JPEG file resides. I have the same original RAW image in place with an added keyword stating "RawHide Original". I see no evidence of the supposed "RawHide Processed" tagged JPEG that, according to the descripion of the apps functions, is supposed to populate in the same project as the original. Not only is it not in the project it is nowhere to be found in my Aperture library.
I have been searching for something like this and was very happy to find it. My Aperture library is loaded with RAW versions of things I should have used a point and shoot to take, and I wasnt sure how to slim the library size without deleting pictures. With RawHide, you select the pictures you want to downgrade, and it will create jpegs and mark the originals as Rejected. Then its up to you to delete the RAWs if you feel good about it. I did find one thing lacking. It doesnt seem to preserve the camera and lens info, which is useful to me. Maybe this is debatable because the jpeg version wasnt taken with a camera, but rather created with RawHide. I would prefer the camera info remain intact if possible. It does preserve other things though like aperture, ISO, shutter speed, and focal length. Id recommed this app to anyone who was overly ambitious with their DSLR and shot EVERYTHING in RAW. Its a very easy way to decrease the size of your library.
This app is lean, powerful & easy to use. After importing & rating RAW files, I reject and trash obviously useless shots. This leaves me with plenty of low or unrated rated images Ill likely never use for professional reasons but would like to keep for future reference. These take up a lot of space on my HD. With Rawhide Im slimming those low rated RAWs down to "best quality" Jpgs & trashing the RAWs. All the related image info travels over to the new Jpg. Quality of the new Jpgs is surprisingly good. The app does exactly what I want it to do without tempting me with a lot of extranious options. Hope it stays that way. Thanks for this little tool. It is making my Aperture experience more enjoyable.
App does what it says and saved me dozens of GBs of space on my large Aperture library. Full disclosure, the app crashed on me several times when I first purchased, but when I emailed support I received a reply within hours and a new version with my personal bug fix was in my inbox by morning. These are the types of developers we should support on the App store. I buy many apps in this category, and this developers apps arent the prettiest, but are functional and well-supported. I will buy his apps first when given a choice of other apps that do the same thing. (I have no previous experience with developer and have never met him…. just a satisfied customer who appreciates good support and an entrepreneurial developer who knows win-win).
I love to shoot in RAW in order to have more flexibility in post, however once Ive edited, I dont usually edit again. So once Im done, I want to reduce my librarys size. I also dont ever want to run into a point in the future where my RAW photos cant be read. This App is simple to use and meets my needs -- it saves me many GB of space! I wish there was an option to be able to alter the applied tag names, but Im sure it will come soon… highly recommended for those who shoot in RAW, but want to convert all of their photos to JPG without have to export and import again.
Simple steps - take a RAW file, export as JPG (at variable quality), re-import with attributes, move original RAW to Rejected (or elsewhere) = Save space and headache.
RawHide and SSoft’s other Aperture extensions are indispensable to my workflow. I have used ADD (Aperture Duplicate Detector) for years, literally. The developer is fantastic and appreciates customer conversations and ideas. I highly recommend these tools.
Really useful tool for cleaning out the bulk of my older, mostly-uneeded RAW files and converting them to JPEGs to save space and to keep them more “future proof” as the years progress (especially now that Apple is discontinuing Aperture). The app seems to work perfectly and it even gracefully handled my one corrupt original master image. As advertised, it did a perfect job of preserving all my metadata, library organization, etc. What an awesome time saver!