Photos convert and replace RAW files with JPEG

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Photos convert and replace RAW files with JPEG

8 years ago, there was a question on here about converting raw files to JPEG. This generated a lot of discussion about, for example, why would you want to do this,. Why would you not shoot in JPEG in the first place et cetera et cetera. I’m in the same boat here in that, if I have an album for the raw files and I select a favourite, I’d like all the others to go to JPEG. This may take me a while to decide, but once I have decided, I’m happy to press the button and overwrite them. This means that I need to keep album information , and accept that this is a one-way process.

There is a shortcut labelled “convert to JPEG” which is excellent, but all it does is to put the resulting file in the photo album in ‘recents’. That’s probably quite a default sensible thing to do , but it would make much more sense if you had the option to put it in the current album where the image has been selected had to keep all the album takes (perhaps optionally). They should keep the album information as well because the whole point is in converting the image, not to mess up your library .

Does anybody know how to do this, eight years on?

Posted on Dec 22, 2023 1:49 AM

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léonie

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Dec 22, 2023 8:59 AM in response to Bfrost666

it would be tricky to improve the shortcut so it will add the new JPEg to all albums, where yourRAW photo has been. You would have to write an Apple Script, that is traversing all albums to find the album where the photo is in.

For example like this: How to find out the albums a photo is in: Jacques Rioux's Script, Monterey version for Photos 7 or later - Apple Community

Then add code to add the converted photo to all previous albums.

Using smart albums based on keywords would make things easier, as the smart albums will search automatically for the photos. We do not have to find the seat albums and add the photos manually. when we see the info of a photo, we will see by the keywords which album is in and to remove it from an album we just remove the keyword.

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léonie

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Dec 22, 2023 4:30 AM in response to Bfrost666

Are you asking about Photos for Mac or Photos iOS for iPad or iPhone?

On a Mac you could tag the all photos in an album with a keyword similar to the name of the album. Then you can easily select all photos together that should appear in the same album and drag them together to the album where they should be. Or use smart albums instead of albums, with the rule "keyword is ...".

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Bfrost666 Author

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Dec 22, 2023 4:56 AM in response to léonie

Hi. Thanks for the suggestion. I keep it simple with albums that manually contain one or more photos that may also be another albums so it’s important to me that this album tagging (behind-the-scenes) is retained. I have access to photos on the Mac and I’ll have an investigate the options fully there, perhaps I will because it would be very nice to be able to get this situation. I’m not adverse to increasing my iCloud storage to cope with the number of RAW files, but it seem to be sensible that if I accidentally left my phone to raw and all I wanted was some snapshots, I could take the raw back to “snapshots status

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