Shoot RAW + JPG, and tune Aphera to your Mac.
RAW + JPG pairs
If your camera writes a RAW and a JPG for every frame, Aphera used to import the RAW and skip the JPG. Now it imports both and treats them as one photo with two source files: the RAW, and the SOOC — your camera’s own rendering.
It stays one photo, with one rating and one slot in the grid. Switch which file it uses from Photo > Source File, from the photo’s context menu, or by clicking the file name in the metadata under a thumbnail. Each file keeps its own adjustments, so switching back returns to the edits you made there.
Trashing a photo takes all of its files. See Importing and Source File.
Performance
Settings has a new Performance pane, with sliders ranged to your hardware.
- Processing — how many images Aphera may decode at once. Faster imports, at the cost of memory while the work runs.
- In-Memory Cache — RAM held for image previews.
- On-Disk Cache — space for RAW proxy files.
Importing is now up to 25% faster. Here is a comparison of importing 100 photos on an M2 Max MacBook Pro with 64GB:
| Aphera Version | Processing | 24MP DNG | 100MP RAF |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2.1 |
– | 0:19 |
1:32 |
1.3.0 |
Default: 8 | 0:15 |
1:08 |
1.3.0 |
Raised: 12 | 0:13 |
1:06 |
1.3.0 |
Lowered: 4 | 0:20 |
1:30 |
A Statistics section reports active memory and the maximum reached this launch, so you can size the sliders by watching what they actually cost. Reset to Defaults goes back to the values Aphera picks for your Mac. See Performance.
Anamorphic desqueeze
Manual Perspective in Crop mode now uses Aphera’s custom sliders, and the Aspect control has a text field and a menu of common anamorphic factors, 1.25 through 2.00. Type an exact factor or pick one. See Crop & Perspective.
Other changes
- Export quality for JPG and HEIC now goes down to 60%, from 80%.
- Files on external drives are matched by location rather than volume name, fixing photos reported as offline when the drive name contained an unusual character.
- Undo now works correctly in all open project windows.
- Toasts appear in the window that caused them.