I switched from an SLR to iPhones for photography a couple of years ago.

I like to shoot RAW and haven’t figured out a good workflow for RAW → Compressed photos.

My goal is to be able to shoot RAW have photos moved off the device and Photos app, process and save the files I care about in a compressed form and put back on my device.

I think I finally cracked it.

This is still a WIP but here’s where I’m at.

  1. Shoot RAW on iPhone → save to Photos.
  2. Periodically run the excellent tool osxphotos and export my library to disk outside of Photos.
  3. Edit external photos using Nitro
  4. Export the ones I care about back into Photos

It’s a bit hacky and I wish Apple had better tooling around this but it seems to work.