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RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor

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236 points l8rlump | 1 comments | 09 Jul 25 02:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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polishdude20 ◴[09 Jul 25 05:00 UTC] No.44506464[source]▶
Hey congrats on the app! This is just what I'm looking for :)

Just installed it on my m1 mac and opened a folder of RAW files. The initial loading lagged my whole macbook. Couldn't even open the dock. Once the thumbnails all loaded it's better but not as buttery smooth as I would have hoped! Would love to know what other commercial apps do that make them not lag. Is it just that they're written natively?

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kamranjon ◴[09 Jul 25 05:21 UTC] No.44506563[source]▶
If you haven’t tried ansel: https://ansel.photos/en/ or darktable: https://www.darktable.org/ I’d recommend trying them out - they are the current open source raw editing apps that perform well that are out there. It could be that this app is competitive with them, but I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet - but both ansel and darktable run well on my M1.
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1. donatzsky ◴[09 Jul 25 07:03 UTC] No.44507064{3}[source]▶
While certainly an impressive effort, it's not even close to competitive yet. As is pointed out in a comment on [1] and as can be seen from the rat piss yellow in the sky, the algorithms are very much on the naive/simple side of things.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=7QymsCRNRHE