Raw Smith

Guide

The Raw Smith guide.

Everything Raw Smith does and where to find it, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. New here? Start with the first tutorial: one photo from import to export in about ten minutes.

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Tutorials

Step by step, with a real photo.

Tutorial

Tutorial: your first photo, from import to export

Edit your first RAW photo in Raw Smith on iPhone, iPad or Mac: import it, choose a profile, set light and white balance, mask the sky, crop and export.

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Cull a shoot fast: picks, rejects and stars

Go through a whole shoot quickly in Raw Smith: import from a card, swipe through Fast Cull, flag and rate from the keyboard, compare similar shots, keep the picks.

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Darken a sky and brighten the subject with AI masks

Use Raw Smith's on-device AI masks to darken a bright sky and lift your subject, then refine the masks with subtract, intersect, the overlay and the amount slider.

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Start on iPhone, finish on Mac: sync with iCloud

Turn on iCloud sync in Raw Smith, import RAWs on your iPhone, and finish the edits on your Mac or iPad, with originals downloaded only when you need them.

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Export a set of photos for the web

Batch export RAW photos from Raw Smith for the web or social media: 2048px sRGB JPEGs with output sharpening, a watermark and only the metadata you choose.

Guide

Every part of the app, one page each.

  1. Import RAW photos from Files, Photos, a camera or a cardImport RAW files into Raw Smith on iPhone, iPad and Mac from Files or Finder, from Photos, or straight off a camera or SD card over USB.
  2. Organise your library: albums, smart albums, keywords and searchHow to organise RAW photos in Raw Smith: albums, smart albums, keywords, captions, search, filters, renaming and deleting, on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
  3. Cull your photos: pick, reject, rate and labelHow to cull RAW photos in Raw Smith: pick and reject flags, star ratings, colour labels, Fast Cull swipes on iPhone and iPad, Compare, Survey and Suggested Rejects.
  4. Edit a RAW photo: profiles, light, colour, effects and detailEvery tool in Raw Smith's Edit tab on iPhone, iPad and Mac: profiles, light, white balance, tone curve, colour mixer, grading, effects, detail and optics.
  5. Crop, straighten and fix perspectiveCrop RAW photos in Raw Smith: aspect ratios from 1:1 to 65:24 XPan, auto-straighten the horizon, rotate, flip and fix vertical and horizontal perspective.
  6. Masks: edit the subject, sky, people or any part of a photoMasks in Raw Smith: select the subject, sky, people, faces or objects with on-device AI, or use a brush, gradients and colour or luminance ranges.
  7. Remove dust and distractions with Heal and CloneHow to remove sensor dust, blemishes and small distractions from RAW photos in Raw Smith on iPhone, iPad and Mac with Heal and Clone spots you can move and resize.
  8. Presets: save a look and use it againHow presets work in Raw Smith: the six built-in looks, saving your own with only the parts you choose, groups, and applying a preset to many RAW photos at once.
  9. Export photos: JPEG, HEIC, TIFF and PNGExport edited RAW photos from Raw Smith as JPEG, HEIC, 16-bit TIFF or PNG on iPhone, iPad and Mac: size, colour space, HDR, watermarks, frames and batches.
  10. iCloud sync between iPhone, iPad and MacHow Raw Smith syncs RAW photos, edits, ratings, keywords, albums and presets between iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud, and manages originals.
  11. Keyboard shortcuts and Speed EditEvery Raw Smith keyboard shortcut on Mac and iPad: P, X and U flags, 0–5 ratings, colour labels, tools, before and after, clipping and Speed Edit.
  12. Shortcuts, Siri and AI agentsAutomate Raw Smith with Shortcuts and Siri, find photos in Spotlight, and let an AI assistant such as Claude work with your library over MCP on the Mac.

Try it on your own RAWs.

Raw Smith is in public beta on TestFlight for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Leave your email and Apple sends you the invite.

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