You're not the first :)

If you know how to do masking with video in Davinci, then it all just applies to photos too. I tried today some basic Magic Mask and color tab editing with photos, and it works exactly the same (without the annoying waiting time on huge videos for Magic Mask, ofc).

I've just now had a look at a couple of YouTube tutorials on Magic Mask for video and I think I understand where I got lost. It looks like the tools I was looking for are on the Color tab, and I first need to drag my images in to the timeline at the bottom of the screen and then jump to the Color tab to work with them.

All the tools are here for a good photo editing product - they just need to be extracted and arranged in a way that is intuitive for photo editing, and this would be a legitimate LR alternative.

edit: This is a great video on the Photo tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuKgfytA0lg. I do feel a little more confident that I could use Resolve for editing after watching this.

Yeah, it's questionable that Davinci layout will yield a good photo experience, but it's interesting development anyway. BTW, that's the reason I like Photomator - it has absolute minimum of what I typically would use, and it's all there. Like, there is a hotkey for autoaligning horizont (and quite often it actually work), or intuitive AI-powered 'Select subject'/'Select background', and even an easy way to back those typical change into edit that can be applied with a hotkey onto a bunch of photos. It's easy to spot when software was written based on pain points of real end users.

Cautiosly looking forward to it. I shoot with A9 III (global shutter camera that makes 120fps _RAW photos_), and dealing with thousands of photos per shoot is a challenge. I don't use Adobe products and still looking for a good stack for photos processing, but it's an uphill battle.

For culling there is nothing better than Photo Mechanic. Worth every penny. For editing, surprisingly, the best solution (performance/features wise) I found is Photomator (recently acquired by Apple). The trick though is not to import RAWs into Photomator, but import into Apple's photo library first (so it doesn't copy RAW files from SSD and doesn't not sync with gallery ofc), and Photomator picks it up natively.

Performance/features wise this stack works fine, but it's a constant juggling with 3 apps, which makes if far from perfect.

Curious to try DaVinci Photo and see how it handles large collections of RAWs and how practical it is to use.

While we're on topic, I've been using DaVinci with this camera for a slightly unusual hybrid process. With a good light and lens I shoot slow-mo video (240fps FullHD or 120fps 4K) with shutter speed of 1/1000. Then I can take any frame and save it as a photo directly from Davinci.

I wrote 2 scripts for that:

- first is for keyboard shortcut that automates "Switch to color tab, Grab a still, Save a still to folder, Switch back"

- second for more advanced workflow where I put markers on the frames I like, and then it uses Fusion's Saver node to save images as EXR

This flow is even faster than culling with Photo Mechanic. In both cases I get 10bit PNG or EXR images that I can import into the photo editor. Workflow is far from the perfect yet, as it might need some adjustment when working with Log profile or different FPS (for 2nd script).

But aside of giving me an option of "shooting" video+photos at the same time, it blows my mind that it's practically "shoot photos 240 times per second and choose later", and how good the end result is. The bitrate of video is 280Mbps (4:2:2, 10bit) and while video compression quality is not negligible, the resulting "still photos"'s quality is more than enough for social media purpose. Photo example [1]

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/13So6ZuVx3dn2jZCw7cm3LkbzydF...

What are you doing with Photomechanic since the price raise, change to subscriptions, and deprecation of the Plus version? Are you using an old version or have you moved to the subscriptions?

Oh, I'm on subscription. Haven't seen those changes with pricing options, thanks. Subscription seems to be at the same price (even lower? it shows 14.99$ now, and I think I'm paying around 18 EUR/month with taxes).

Would you pay 2$ for that MacOS native desktop app?

What's the easiest way to use it with on-device voice model for voice chat?

https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel-gui uses on-device speech-to-text and text-to-speech

Thanks, tried it, but it's crashes on clicking the microphone icon. Default `make install` for some reason tries to install it to /usr, I changed that and after torturing more mature coding LLMs for 20 minutes, made it running with mic/sound.

The mic button requires clicking to transcribe and start listening again, and default voice is low-quality (I assume it can be configured).

In general I'm looking for a way to try the on-device hands-free voice mode.

Age verification doesn’t necessarily imply identification — eIDAS 2.0 and ISO 18013-5 have selective disclosure by design.

You can also create a skill for reviewing (which calls gemini/codex as a command line tool) and set instructions on how and when to use. Very flexible.

Yes, but what’s cool about loop is that it runs the interactive TUIs and establishes a direct connection between them. You can steer and answer questions in both sessions, not just from the main worker.

> generations of programmers have now been raised to believe that brutally inefficient, bloated, and slow software is just fine.

I believe people don't think about Knuth when they choose to write app in Electron. Some other forces might be at play here.

An invention is a new device, method, or way of doing something that did not exist before. Innovation is anything that significantly improves real world processes or products. I believe the literature uses term "innovation systems" regardless of type of economies.

Just wanted to say that article is so much deeper than it seems from the title, and also beautifully written. It was a great read!

I am glad to hear that, thank you!

As usual, great writeup and problem solving from Go team. One nitpick: wording "call to oldmath.Sub should be inlined" might be a bit confusing due to existing meaning of word "inlining" for functions (i.e. compiler inlining optimization). Without this article I would not be able to guess that this diagnostic message refer to something else.