We are excited to release Picktorial 4 - a major milestone for Picktorial and a free update for all who purchased version 3.5. Now is the time to thank you, our users, who have provided tremendously helpful feedback and comments, and helped make Picktorial the most attractive non-destructive photo editor and organizer in the market.
Picktorial 4 opens up a whole new level of workflow features and brings pro-level tools while preserving the fully non-destructive capabilities, fast performance, and clean user interface of Picktorial. Here are the major new features available in Picktorial 4, divided into two sections:
- DAM (Digital Asset Management)
- Workflow
Lightning Fast Search
Picktorial 4 has now its own index, rather than relying on macOS Spotlight cache. This gains a performance improvement of 100X. It takes less than 50MB on your drive for 100,000 photos. Picktorial uses a live search, so it updates the results in real time as you’re entering the query and updates itself immediately when the metadata of your photos is changed.
Advanced Search
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Thanks to the new search infrastructure, Picktorial now offers advanced search capabilities by fields that are not supported by macOS Spotlight, such as rating, keywords (tags), capture date, IPTC metadata and so on. You can find the image you’re looking for based on its file name, file extension, rating values of “equal”, “larger than”, “smaller than” and different “and” variations of these. You can also choose where your search is applied, whether globally on your entire image collection or in a specific folder.
Picktorial comes with very useful predefined searches to get you started.
Picktorial comes with very useful predefined searches to get you started.
Smart Albums
Save any of your searches, rename them and you have a smart album that automatically collects any image that matches the query, from any folder. Smart albums are updated dynamically and help you cull and curate your image, easily and efficiently.
Albums
Let you curate multiple lists of photos without making extra copies on your drive.
Quick Albums
lets you set any album as “quick album” and add photos to it by pressing “b”.
Batch Editing
Now you can transform any combination of changes you’ve made in one image, to any number of other images, simply by choosing them in the browser. This can be done in a one-click copy-paste function or with great precision using the lock feature that’s in every slider, section or local adjustment.
Batch Export
Like batch editing, the export function now supports Batch export, letting you determine the export settings for any number of images, in a single operation. Simply select the images you want to export in the browser, open the export from the File menu or by a right-click on one of the selected images. The exported images will be saved in the location you define in the menu.
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New Browser
We gave our browser a complete overhaul to offer an even better user experience and choose between two layouts: Tiled, and Squares. Image layout has been improved and files are now easier to find.
Multi-Sort
Images in the browser can now be sorted by Capture date, Modification date, Name, and Rating, all by ascending or descending order. Just right-click anywhere on the background and select Arrange By, to see the menu.
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Jpeg+Raw Stacks
If you shoot both JPEG and RAW formats, this feature is for you. Picktorial enables you to stack together JPEG and their corresponding RAW photos and choose which format of the two will be used by default when editing.
High-Resolution images
If you use high-end multi-megapixel cameras like the Nikon D850, Fuji GFX50s/r with their 50mp’s or even a Phase back with 100mp’s, Picktorial will have it on display like any other file, with smooth live editing and zooming.
NAS & External drive support
This feature recalls disconnected folders and files of a connected external drive or a NAS server, automatically, over ethernet or WiFi, so you can continue to work seamlessly anywhere.
Accent Color
We’re happy to be the first to take advantage of Apple’s latest interface improvements and have Picktorial displayed with your favorite color scheme for seamless transitions between programs. Picktorial’s interface with automatically adapt to the chosen accent color in the Apple menu.
Dual-Layer JPEG
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We’re utilizing a unique and less-known feature of the JPEG file format, in a new way. This feature saves all editing information within the file itself, so you can adjust any edit later you JPEG file later on at any point, and still have all your adjustments ready to be modified just like a RAW file! You can also easily revert back to the original file at any time and start again. The saved file will present the changes made while having the history inside it.
Focus Point Viewer
Another very useful feature to help you become better at your craft. With a single click, you can display the chosen focus point used in the camera when the image was taken.
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Picktorial 4 is a major step forward, and we are already working on further improvements and new features coming in future updates. If you can’t find your most desired feature in Picktorial 4, please email us - we believe that user feedback is the best way to make Picktorial the finest photo editor in the world.
Performance
Of course, it is how quick and effective that software applies image edits that really counts.
As for speed, Picktorial 3 is really, really fast. It’s an aspect that’s often lets low cost editors down, but not Picktorial 3.
Viewing a single image is quick and simple. Magnify to 100% and there is no loading time, even when moving around the image. Impressive.
It is possible to switch between the 100% magnified view and fitting the entire image on screen by hitting the spacebar. (Though you will need to zoom in to 100% through the usual increments first.) Crisp viewing is instant. Again, impressive.
In addition to quick image viewing, there is no real waiting time to see the effect of edits made to an image. Whether it is changes to the exposure sliders, applying a preset or using the Retouch tool for selective adjustments, everything is fast.
When asking the software creators about the speed of Picktorial 3, their response was that it has been designed from the ground up to utilise the GPU, including the selective adjustment tools. It could also be because this is a catalogue-less workflow.
To assess how well Picktorial 3 applies image edits, I made like for like edits to the same images using Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and Picktorial 3. Edited files were Nikon NEF, Sony ARW and Olympus ORF raw files.
The jury is out.
In one comparison I edited a high contrast image, pushing shadows (brighter), highlights (darker) and clarity, all to the maximum possible settings. In addition, a +1EV exposure increase was preferred.
It was a revealing test, with the end results being wildly different.
These particular edits were made in order to check Picktorial 3’s editing prowess, clearly not what I would desire for a final result. So in one context, this is not a ‘real world’ example, but a test.
However, ACR is clearly much more capable than Picktorial 3 in revealing tonal detail. There is additional highlight and shadow detail contained in original raw images than what Picktorial 3 is able to recover.
When increasing or decreasing the exposure slider, tonal detail in bright highlights and deepest shadows is lost much more quickly.
Change exposure more than ±1EV and the results begin to look a little high contrast and overly saturated.
For me, at times the behaviour of the editor is similar to what I would expect when editing JPEG images using Adobe Camera Raw, not what I would expect when editing raw pictures.
Original
Processed in ACR
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When asking the team behind Picktorial 3 about this experience, the response was that improvements need to be made to the highlight and shadow adjustment sliders. In addition, there is a raw file format compatibility issue with Olympus .orf files.
Improvements to these sliders are claimed to be in the pipeline in Picktorial 3.1, but I’m reviewing and sharing experience of Picktorial 3 here, not a future product.
There are workarounds for certain images, through the Retouch tool. The ‘Tone’ feature in Retouch offers selective adjustments to exposure, with tools such as brush, linear and radial gradients and luma mask. For example, if the sky is too bright, one can use these tools selectively darken just that area.
In other examples where changes to exposure and so on are more subtle, then Picktorial 3 handles itself fine. It is possible to get well exposed images quickly, though I wouldn’t apply changes much beyond ±2EV.
Another key feature in Picktorial 3 is the Retouch tool. As mentioned, the brush used for adjustments can be altered in size, feather, flow and edge.
Selective adjustments for sharpening and smoothing in particular work really well.
Navicat for postgresql crack. Smoothing skin in portraits is quick and manual adjustments to texture, structure and separation ensure results can be made to taste.
Likewise, with manual control over the radius, fine and coarse adjustments in selective sharpening, it is easy to make details in landscapes pop.
Like all aspects of Picktorial 3, the Patch tool in Retouch is applied really fast, but to get good results a little time needs to be put in.
You paint over the area of the image that needs working on, such as covering up a distracting object. The editing area is highlighted in a semi opaque red and then information is taken from another manually selected part of the image.
It’s not immediately obvious, but the ‘healing’ slider switches from clone at one end, to heal at the other. For the best part, I did not find a great difference between the two. I prefer the results using ACR’s spot removal tool set to heal, but you can get decent result with Picktorial 3.
With editing complete, it’s time to export the images. The progress of image export is not displayed within Picktorial 3, so I observed the destination folder to assess how long an export took.
When exporting to desktop it took about 90 seconds to export 20 JPEG images (totalling around 100MB), which is respectable.
Presets
Conclusion
Picktorial 3 appears simple and straight forward to use, but taking the time to root around reveals some sophisticated editing functions.
The level of control, especially over selective adjustments is particularly impressive.
Perhaps the most enjoyable aspect of Picktorial 3 is how quick it operates, from start to finish. Importing images, viewing images, applying edits and exporting. It is fast and it is easy.
I like the file management method, taking the images from their source folder, with non-destructive edits saved in the accompanying .xmp file.
There are some let downs, especially regarding major exposure adjustments and limitations in recovering tonal detail. These adjustment sliders at times behave in a way I would expect from JPEG editing.
In such cases, the impressive speed and function of Picktorial 3 is not backed up in relative terms by the end results. I hope that these issues can be ironed out in future Picktorial versions, without compromising the impressive operational speed.
Batch applications are a tad limited in some areas. Also, it would be useful to have more metadata for reference in the Info panel, such as aperture, shutter speed and focal length settings.
All being said, at this price point Picktorial 3 is very good indeed. If you are looking for a simple and low cost raw editor, you’d be hard pressed to beat Picktorial 3.
Ratings (out of 5) | |
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Design | 3.5 |
Features | 2.5 |
Ease-of-use | 4 |
Value for money | 5 |