@netopwibby Sign up on the website. No invites yet, but beta waves will begin soon-ish.

@trey There's a longer branding story there. It's made up of what the app was originally called and then a little mix of other words we were looking at. We did come across the sea snails upon research, but was not derived from that. We do like the idea of “slow tech" or intentional tech. A snail fits that it seems.

Installing and sharing presets in apps like Lightroom have been fraught, tedious, and confusing.

Portable looks in Aphera work like this: drag and drop and instantly share anywhere!

This week @aphera got a beta build/release process, compatibility tests for all stored file types, and a set of improved color matrices for ~300 cameras.

Lunchtime @aphera edits.

Still obsessed with this look. Here's a few from Eureka Dunes.

@trey That's the goal.

Custom looks that are yours, portable, and shareable? We gotchu.
https://mastodon.social/@rcarver/115843609486030408

Copy and paste is good. We like that.

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Here’s a peek at Aphera’s keyboard-assignable Looks you can create, modify, and share.

Aphera is an app we’ve wanted forever. Existing tools use ancient imaging techniques before photos were edited in RAW. They’re bloated, UI-dense, slow, and have made working with photos a chore.

We miss the joy, lightness, and flow of viewing and sharing photos. We designed a modern imaging pipeline informed by the history of film that brings its natural beauty to digital.

The time for a speedy, intentional, and modern Mac photo editor is now, solving not only our own problems, but yours too.