Apple's Photographic Styles Metadata

Apple's new photographic styles utilize local tone mapping, enabling semantic awareness of image elements.
These styles exist in distinct color spaces, offering greater control and flexibility.
Apple has not yet released the details of how they are stored into the file and how to edit the photos in other apps, hindering broader editing capabilities.
Users shooting in JPEG format lose the non-destructive editing feature of these styles, a detail Apple doesn't explicitly communicate.
Gruber believes Apple should make this distinction clearer to users.

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