Inquiring minds want to know. ON1 seems to handle HEIC two ways!
I have been using Apple Photos for my DAM, I don't have a whole lot of photos, around 5K. But, in setting ON1 as one of the "extensions" for editing In Photos, I see that the file is changed to a PSD by ON1 and then processed and sent back.
However, if I use ON1 as a standalone, it seems to just use HEIC. I have done this with separate folders of the same photos, just to see what is taking place.
What is at the bottom of this question is this: All of this switching from one format to another is good? Necessary? or maybe not so good?? More curious at this point.
Charles J
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Well, On1 is non-destructive, so if you open the file directly, your edits are saved in the database (and sidecar) until you Export but when you pass a photo to it, it needs a way to send the changes back. It can't alter the original, so it makes a copy. It could be PSD, TIFF or JPG depending on what you have set in On1 options.
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Thanks, Rick! It finally makes some sense. It all has to do with the non-destructive feature and the edits saved in sidecar and database. Photos would not know what to do with an ON1 sidecar. But it does know what to do with PSD, TIFF, etc so that you can go back to the original in Photos.
I don't find a whole lot of info on HEIC without serious digging. But it does work!? One reason I am interested in all of this is because I got an iPhone 7 and it has a pretty good camera. Good enough for a lot of things. Like reasonably close photos of interesting wild and tame flowers.
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From what I see, it's just a way to compress a photo without losing detail. Like a JPG but more efficient.
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HIEC files contain more than one image. It is the format Apple uses for the time changing backgrounds. You take a series of photos through out the day then tag each of them with the time it should be shown. The OS will then change the image through out the day accordingly. This is overly simplified and Apple has not released any tools for creating them that I'm aware of.
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Thanks Rick and Brian,
My old eyeballs aren't up to serious pixel peeping! So, I am looking at alternatives to make life easier. One of the options is my iPhone 7. There are camera apps that are supposed to do RAW for the iPhone 7 and others. I suspect that they are really DNG or something else. So, if HEIF or HEIC really does a "Good Enough" job, why mess around?? But if I am going to use HEIF, I like to know just what it will do. fileinfo.com page had some good info.
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