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Everpix
\nSo along comes a really neat looking startup called Everpix which promises to solve every photographer's most annoying workflow problem — unifying all those different silos of photos under one management umbrella. Upload a photo to your iPad, snap a photo on your iPhone, dock your camera to your Mac Pro, every device you own can access every photo.\n\nAnd they even promise to do things like figure out which shots are in near-identical sequences and automagically pick the best one, and automatically detect incorrect exposures and blurry shots so you don't need to sort them out.\n\nOf couse it only does this with JPEGs. Grrrr.\n\nAside: after writing this post, I discovered that — apparently — Everpix can't upload from my main Aperture library. I also did some Googling to see if anyone else has figured this out — Adobe Revel makes no mention of RAW files even in its FAQ (seriously, no-one wonders about RAW backup to the cloud?) and SugarSync (which looks very similar to Everpix) also makes no mention of RAW support anywhere. My guess, if you're studiously not mentioning it anywhere on your website, you aren't dealing with it.\n\nLook guys. You've gotten me to install your software on every machine I own. You can see the darn files. How about (a) figuring out which images are blurred or underexposed before you upload them, or (b) using the metadata I've provided (e.g. which photos I've given star ratings or bothered to fine-tune). This will help filter signal from noise and with the insane amounts of bandwidth you save you can upload the damn RAW files.\n\nNote that I proposed this exact idea to my colleagues working on PurePhoto and it was set aside for after release. (Release never really happened.) Here's the thing — I don't need a better image editor. I don't need a tool for sorting my pictures into folders. I really don't care about JPEGs because those are \"prints\". I can replace them. I need to deal with baggigabytes of photos, 90% of them crap, and I need it to be seamless and handle RAW.\n\nA typical RAW file is three times larger than the corresponding \"fine\" JPEG. So, support RAW files and figure out a way to avoid uploading 70% of the images and you're ahead. You're way ahead because now you're doing something useful.\n\nHere's another way of looking at it: if you save 100% of my JPEGs you've done nothing useful. If you save 90% of the RAW files I care about (missing 10% because your filter algorithm is imperfect) you've done me a huge, huge service, and I can become smarter about finessing your algorithm and you can improve your algorithm over time.\n\nGo forth and implement something useful.","$updatedAt":"2024-06-05T09:10:30.269+00:00",path:"raw-deals",_created:"2024-07-09T20:29:10.169Z",id:"5157",_modified:"2024-07-09T20:29:10.169Z","$id":"5157",_path:"post/path=raw-deals"}}