September 6, 2013
Greetings from Photoshop World in Las Vegas! We’re well into day three of “the big show” and have met an amazing number incredibly enthusiastic new and existing users of Photosmith for iPad.
We’re really excited to take the wraps off of what we’ve been working on over the past few months: Native camera raw processing right in Photosmith! This will mean full resolution support for camera raw formats previously unsupported in Apple’s iOS, and will be the stepping stone for the next phase of Photosmith development.
Don’t worry, we’re still committed to refining and enhancing existing features, and are continuing to streamline existing digital photography workflows – announcements outlining our efforts to make Lightroom sync even more robust are forthcoming.
We will be at our booth, #434, for another hour – please stop by and say hello if you haven’t already.
Below is our press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Photoshop World – Las Vegas, NV – Friday, September 6, 2013 – C Squared Enterprises, developer of Photosmith for iPad, announced today that it will include native camera raw processing in its photography app for Apple’s iPad.
Native camera raw rendering, which unlocks full-resolution viewing of photos in Photosmith for iPad, is being demonstrated in booth #434, at Photoshop World in Las Vegas September 6, 2013.
“Although Apple’s iOS offers compatibility for viewing certain more-popular camera raw files on iPad, there are some pretty significant gaps, especially when working with older and narrowly-supported digital cameras like Leica,” said Chris Horne, Co-Developer of C Squared. “By creating our own camera raw rendering engine, we are able to support rendering of far more cameras, and offer never-before seen compatibility on iPad for both old and brand new cameras.”
“This is really exciting! We’re adding support for over ten previously unsupported camera raw file types covering hundreds of camera models, all of which can now be viewed in full resolution on iPad,” said Mike Wren, C Squared spokesman and Chief User Advocate. “iPad users will no longer need to rely on, and wait for Apple to push an iOS update to unlock support for brand new cameras. This also opens up a tremendous number of possibilities for photo processing in future versions of Photosmith, right on the iPad.”
Native camera raw rendering is currently undergoing final testing and will be be available in the next version as a free update for all current users. A complete compatibility list of supported cameras will be posted on Photosmith’s website at www.photosmithapp.com.
C Squared released Photosmith version 3 in April, 2013 to universally positive reviews, both in Apple’s App Store and in the tech media. Charlie Sorrel of the popular blog Cult of Mac said in a recent review, “The interface actually makes [adding keyword tags] easier to do in Photosmith than in Lightroom. You can quickly create new tags, make trees or hierarchical tags (People>The Lady) and apply tags to multiple photos at once.”
Photosmith 3 is a free update for all existing users, and is available for a one-time cost of $19.99, or the equivalent local currency.
Contact:
Mike Wren
[email protected]
(518) 288-8873
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Posted in: Current Progress, Development, Marketing | 7 Comments
Very exciting! How fast will it be? Faster than PiRAWnah, I hope! Fast enough to completely replace use of embedded JPEGs in Photosmith?
If you follow up with RAW editing controls in a later release, I will be in heaven!
We’re using some proprietary techniques that should make our camera raw rendering faster than other currently-available alternatives.
Our raw rendering options are to render from raw always, or only when a full-sized preview isn’t available as an embedded preview.
Wonderful, but is Sigma with the Foveon sensor not supported?
We will be testing Sigma DP1, DP2, DP2X, and SD15 – our compatibility chart will be ready around the end of next week.
We’re always looking for new camera raw file samples; if you have a Sigma camera model not listed above, please email [email protected].
Would love to see native support for Lumix G WiFi tethering.
Additional Wi-Fi based importing beyond what we already have for FTP and Eye-Fi is unlikely in the immediate future. However, our good friend Brian with ShutterSnitch app for iPhone and iPad supports many different cameras, including the Lumix series. Then, it’s super easy to send photos between ShutterSnitch and Photosmith, (without needing to dump photos into Photos.app/Camera Roll) because both apps support PhotoCopy.
Give ShutterSnitch a look: http://www.shuttersnitch.com/whatfi
Wow, cool, finally see this comming to iOS as well. My app does this on Android since about a year (yep, we’re talking about raw-decoding here).
How long does full-size decoding of a Nikon D800 file take on the iPad? Would like to have a comparision.
Regards
Torsten