Trying to figure out Photomator capabilities…

[Thomas Bricker]

I purchased the perpetual license for Photomator yesterday. I am attracted to its interface and many of its features.
One of the reasons I bought it is because I would like it to be able to edit my photo shoots, both on my Mac and on my 13” iPad Pro M4.
My objective is to be able to do edits on either device and see them reflected on both devices.
I import my shoots into an external SSD Drive and do my editing straight from that. So far the workflow seems fine on my Mac. When I connect the SSD drive to my iPad, I can go into Files mode and see the drive there. So far, I am not seeing the usual interface that you would see on the Mac. When I look at the contents of the folder of my shoot, it not only shows me the raw files in the folder, but also, all of the sidecar files associated with each shot.
Is Photomator not able to present my images in a gallery mode like it does on a Mac when I’m using it on an iPad?
Perhaps I haven’t set it up correctly? Or perhaps what I’m trying to do is simply not possible yet.
I would love some advice about this.. I see some Good potential here but so far, the reality is not meeting my expectations.
In a related note, I discovered yesterday that Photomator does not yet have a way to sort or rank your images. I find that hard to believe, and unfortunately, it is a dealbreaker in terms of using Photomator as a serious tool for processing photo shoots. I see that it is in the development roadmap. Hopefully, that feature is just a few minutes down the road. I will continue to use on1 photo raw in the meantime until Photomator is up to speed in this regard.

Thanks, Pixelmator. Good work so far!

[Martin Chalifoux]

The "File Browser" on the Mac and iPad are very different. That is because they leverage iOS capabilities and they differ from the Mac. The one on the iPad is very basic and do very little for that reason. I for now hope they will drop the Apple file picker on the iPad and build their own file browser so it becomes more capable. Other haps are doing that so it can be done. But for now the iPad and Mac apps offer dirrenent file browsing capabilities. The Mac File Browser experience is much superior. This is all work in progress I think.

As for photo culling (rating, flagging, etc) I think this functionality is coming but for now they have nothing. On the Mac I purchased the app FastRawViewer which is cheap and I find it very good for culling a shoot. I then move to Photomator to edit the keepers. That app is Mac only unfortunately.