How to develop a RAW photo with NeoFinder and Pixelmator
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2025 4:17 pm
NeoFinder integrates very well with your favorite RAW developer application!
For example, Pixelmator Pro.
First, select the file in NeoFinder, and use the context menu, the Open With command. It shows all your applications that can open RAW fies. Select Pixelmator Pro.app.
NeoFinder will then launch Pixelmator Pro, and open that RAW file for you.
As you can see, it is a nice photo, but a bit too dark.
Make your edits in Pixelmator, and make sure it looks nice, like this version here.
Then save the edited image in Pixelmator as a JPG, TIFF or HEIC file, and place it into the proper folder.
In the example, this is the same folder that the RAW file is placed in, and I have added an "EDIT" suffix to the name, so it is clear that this is a developed version of the image.
As Pixelmator is a bit thin in regards of metadata handling, you may wish to copy and paste all metadata from the original RAW photo to the EDIT with NeoFinder, but for privacy reasons, maybe you actually don't want that, depending on what is going to happen with the image.
NeoFinder is the perfect photo manager companion for a RAW editor like Pixelmator Pro!
https://www.cdfinder.de/photo-organizer.html
For example, Pixelmator Pro.
First, select the file in NeoFinder, and use the context menu, the Open With command. It shows all your applications that can open RAW fies. Select Pixelmator Pro.app.
- open with pixelmator Large.jpeg (290.86 KiB) Viewed 625 times
NeoFinder will then launch Pixelmator Pro, and open that RAW file for you.
As you can see, it is a nice photo, but a bit too dark.
- pixelmator pre edit Large.jpeg (145.52 KiB) Viewed 625 times
Make your edits in Pixelmator, and make sure it looks nice, like this version here.
- edited in pixelmator Large.jpeg (166.87 KiB) Viewed 625 times
Then save the edited image in Pixelmator as a JPG, TIFF or HEIC file, and place it into the proper folder.
In the example, this is the same folder that the RAW file is placed in, and I have added an "EDIT" suffix to the name, so it is clear that this is a developed version of the image.
- save developed version Large.jpeg (124.52 KiB) Viewed 625 times
As Pixelmator is a bit thin in regards of metadata handling, you may wish to copy and paste all metadata from the original RAW photo to the EDIT with NeoFinder, but for privacy reasons, maybe you actually don't want that, depending on what is going to happen with the image.
NeoFinder is the perfect photo manager companion for a RAW editor like Pixelmator Pro!
https://www.cdfinder.de/photo-organizer.html