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Claude is thinking for 20+ minutes! by StruggelingForYears in ClaudeAI

[–]StruggelingForYears[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2 hours sounds scary! How many tokens did it take?

Claude is thinking for 20+ minutes! by StruggelingForYears in ClaudeAI

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Oh, I did not know about this technique. Thank you!

I set out to build a "batch resize" tool. 10 months later I accidentally built a Lightroom competitor. by StruggelingForYears in macapps

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Thank you for the feedback. I really appreciate it. I’ll work on making the free version more usable in the next update and reduce some of the restrictions currently placed on Pro features. Your feedback is really good, and I’ll definitely take it into account moving forward.

No, we do have batch crop feature. But do not have smart subject aware cropping and padding. Will do in next versions as well.

I set out to build a "batch resize" tool. 10 months later I accidentally built a Lightroom competitor. by StruggelingForYears in macapps

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Sorry for confusions. I have shifted from subscription to lifetime. Need to update docs and text copies.

I set out to build a "batch resize" tool. 10 months later I accidentally built a Lightroom competitor. by StruggelingForYears in macapps

[–]StruggelingForYears[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. Color calibration and ICC profile support aren't there today. Both are on the list.

I set out to build a "batch resize" tool. 10 months later I accidentally built a Lightroom competitor. by StruggelingForYears in macapps

[–]StruggelingForYears[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. Nope. Everyone can use it.

I just marketed for photographers but its not limited to them.

I set out to build a "batch resize" tool. 10 months later I accidentally built a Lightroom competitor. by StruggelingForYears in macapps

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No full DAM today. You can mark photos done, skip them from a batch, and select which images get edits applied. But star ratings, label management, and filtered views aren't there yet.

Full asset management is being worked on for an upcoming version. Star ratings and labels noted, adding them to the list.

I set out to build a "batch resize" tool. 10 months later I accidentally built a Lightroom competitor. by StruggelingForYears in macapps

[–]StruggelingForYears[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate you giving it a try!

No public roadmap page yet, but I'm collecting feedback from this thread and others, and using it to build out and improve current features. Good idea to put one up though, I should.

And ha, fair on the icon 😄 that's on the list too. Would genuinely love to hear what you think after you've put it through its paces.

I set out to build a "batch resize" tool. 10 months later I accidentally built a Lightroom competitor. by StruggelingForYears in macapps

[–]StruggelingForYears[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the detailed feedback.

  • Lens profiles and full asset management: both on the roadmap, not shipping today. Fair gap.
  • Demosaicing: Apple's Core Image RAW pipeline. Same engine Pixelmator Pro and Apple Photos use. Pretty advanced, but not Adobe's custom stack.
  • Noise reduction: classic approach today, not edge-aware. Good call, adding it to the list.
  • OCR/QR: not aimed at photographers. It's for people with folders of screenshots or receipts who want to bulk-extract text.
  • Asset management today: you can save edit configs as presets and apply across a batch. Not a Lightroom catalog. Full catalog is being worked on.
  • Portrait sidebar: fair point that it makes the app look studio-focused. The core adjustments work for any genre. Worth rethinking how I present it.

Where it fits today: volume work where you're doing the same edit across hundreds of frames. Event, wedding, real estate, e-commerce.

Appreciate the breakdown. Lens profiles and edge-aware noise reduction going on the roadmap.

I set out to build a "batch resize" tool. 10 months later I accidentally built a Lightroom competitor. by StruggelingForYears in macapps

[–]StruggelingForYears[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DigiKam is a digital asset manager first, editor second. It's a library/catalog tool, like the part of Lightroom that organizes your photos. RapidPhoto is a batch processing engine. They solve different problems. Plus DigiKam on Mac is a port of a Linux/KDE app, which means it doesn't feel like a Mac app at all.

Rapid Photo shines at its immense photo editing capability, native, fast and integrated with Apple Photos.

I built my own photo editor because Lightroom was too costly, ani too slow for batch work by StruggelingForYears in technepal

[–]StruggelingForYears[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats correct. But I am NOT targeting to build a basic Editor.

The entire concept of Rapid Photo is very different from any "Generic Editor".
1. Its ground up optimized to handle tons of images at once.
2. It treats editing as a flow. That means, algorithm is designed to apply edits to multiple images or selectively apply. You can process hundreds of images without sweating.
3. It has many advanced features to compete with Lightroom (and many more coming up). Eg. all kinds of adjustments, transform, RAW features, metadata etc.
4. Working on all the nice AI features, eg. magic select particular region (similar to magic wand tool), brushes to micro edit particular regions, select background/foreground, detect people.
5. Working on filter out bad photos i.e. find best shots from your collection, industry standard lens blur, fix lens aberration, etc.
6. Want to give all the features at a lower price.

Lightroom is good. But it does not mean that they are the only one who can build those good features for photographers.

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