What is Reddit's opinion of Photo Mate R3?

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It's done this for me with Canon RAW files since launch. It only ever downloads the Jpegs to other apps, though. If I download them directly (at least on the PC), they remain as RAW. What annoys me, though, is the automatic creation stuff (albums, collages, etc.) use the RAWs over the finished jpegs, mostly because they're there first in my workflow. I can tell Photos to ignore RAW, but it won't even upload those then. I'd rather have a second backup and be annoyed than nothing at all, though.

BTW, while I love Snapseed too for quick and easy edits with great effects (it is build from the now free Nik Collection, after all), take a look at Photo Mate R3. It's like having a full-blown RAW editor on Android. You can edit just about any RAW file, access network storage, and the UI/tools are familiar to Lightroom on a PC or Capture One. It's fully-featured.

Kolika je to slika od 240 MB? Veličina slike se smanjuje kompresijom ili čuvanjem u nekom drugom formatu nalik .PNG ili .JPEG gde slika biva kompresovana ali gubi na kvalitetu (gubitak je često neprimetan ljudskim okom).

Probaj ovu aplikaciju ako imaš Android i sačuvaj sliku u .PNG (ili .JPEG) formatu.

Has anyone had much experience with Photo Mate R3? I'm trying it out, and it looks like a viable one-time purchase RAF editor (in-app purchase of $9.XX). It's a little sluggish, and the interface isn't amazing, but it seems to be working okay.

I'll keep fiddling with it, but if anyone has any other suggestions for Android apps, I'm open to trying them!

If you mean you tried F-Stop, then yes, it only sees jpg images, not RAW, unfortunately. I had some success a year or two ago getting Photomate R3 to work ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tssystems.photomate3 ) to view/edit, but I can't remember whether I tried using it like a regular gallery viewer for really going through my photos, or just opened individual files for editing. It continues to be updated, but the reviews are all over the place, so I think the experience is pretty hit or miss, and might even depend on which kind of RAW file you're working with. (And, maybe some of the reviews are comparing it to what can be done on Windows or Mac, vs what other Android/Chrome options are available.)

I know mine isn't a great system, but since otherwise F-stop is so good, and I don't have Linux support on the Samsung Chromebook Pro, I now shoot in raw and jpg and then do all my organizing/culling with the jpg files in the app. Then, I just move the corresponding RAW files to match whatever I did with the jpgs.

At least by going through my jpgs in F-Stop, it's easy enough for me to cull, decide which are the better photos in general, then I go straight to the RAW file with the same name for processing if I want to do more with it.

I'm not sure if you're also looking for a system going forward, or are just in a position of having some RAW files right now that you need to deal with. But in case my system is of use to anyone else reading this in the future, or trying to figure out if they can use a Chromebook with their photography, I just thought I'd add this in. As timo0105 wrote, if you have access to Linux, RawTherapee and Darktable do seem to be the two main suggestions I see over and over again. I have just been trying to get by in ChromeOS with Android apps.

I use my DSLR quite a bit and was excited when Google announced RAW support for Android. So my workflow and opinions might be a bit more biased and PC-friendly, but I'll share a couple of approaches if I can.

Firstly, I prefer FV-5 Camera app over Manual Camera, though I use both. FV-5 has more features and I like the UI better. Manual Camera makes it easier to manually focus, which I do use, and it's a lot faster to open and take your shot. For some reason, FV-5 sometimes lags. So I've basically learned what I like about both apps and choose which one based on my situation/environment/purpose.

Once I have my RAW photo, I actually prefer using Photo Mate R3 because the UI and tools are familiar to RAW editing on a PC and just as powerful. It's not a free app, though. I paid about $10 for it a while back, not sure if pricing is the same anymore. A benefit to this is that it can handle just about ANY RAW file format, so it can edit my DSLR pics too, which I do sometimes from my tablet when I'm out and about.

On the PC/Mac, I prefer using Capture One, the way it interprets colors is incredible. .And I have a lot of flexibility in the color options. The other tools are great as well, but that's what stands out for me. Lightroom is the most common and it's good, too. But I can't get myself to switch - I'm too accustomed. And DxO Optics has one of the best noise reduction algorithms for RAW editing.

Now, if you're exclusively shooting DNG on your phone, you can stick with Snapseed or Lightroom mobile. Both are great apps as well, but limited to jpeg or DNG file formats. I like Snapseed for quick and easy, but I think their RAW editor is kind of weak. Not impressed with noise reduction either. Lightroom mobile doesn't even feel like Lightroom. The UI is very consumerish, dumbed down, but easy. You can also go for Photoshop Express (the mobile app). It reads RAW files, though last time I used it, it took some working to get it to open them. I had to use a file browser or gallery app and share my RAW file into the app, I couldn't just open the photo from PS Express. BTW, the RAW files I opened into PS Express were CR2 RAW files, not DNG.

If you want to see a before and after of a shot I did on my Nexus 6 as DNG, edited in Capture One, then Photoshop to add in the canoe in the photo, I posted a before/after on my site

Seems I was wrong about two things, and probably mixing them up. No HDR on Mini 2, you are right, but with third-party apps like Litchi, you can use AEB on the Mini 1. I believe that HDR is currently in beta, which means it should be available in-app at some point in the not-too-distant future (since it's essentially automated AEB merging).

In terms of manual HDR, I've seen some simple and free software recommended. For Windows, Picturenaut seems to be the go-to. For Android I've seen both Photo Mate R3 and Vibrance HDR recommended but don't have much experience with them yet myself.

That, I use Photo Mate R3 myself.