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Conversion is fairly easy, but there’s so much to play with:.

It’s also very easy to copy/paste settings and to batch process with presets, profiles, and/or copied settings.

Presets are easy to set, and the UI makes it obvious that you’re saving a file.

The rest of the notes assume that workflow. Long before I found that RawPedia article, I was happily rolling along with the usual Tone Curve swap method. But with the third, the sliders work like normal. With the first two options, it’s just like others: all the sliders are reversed, and some of them don’t quite behave as expected. Try to get anything like that out of Lightroom’s manual. Blown highlights came out red for some reason (probably has something to do with the file I used to make the profile: it was a straight shot with no flash balancing the files I tested these on came from a batch that had blue/green filters stacked on the flash to cancel out the orange base in-camera). I did that and it worked fairly well for some images, but not so much for others.

#Rawtherapee stable version how to#

And there’s also thorough instructions in the RawPedia for how to create a custom camera profile with Adobe’s DNG profile creator: purely a benefit of the whole Open Source thing.There’s also a preset in the film simulations that, on advice of the RawPedia, I didn’t try, but that I might one day.I messed around with them all, more or less, and just… MashaAllah. Check it! Two tone curves! And they both have multiple options: Linear, Custom, Parametric, and Control Cage curve types Standard, Weighted-Standard, Film-Like, and Saturation and value blending.But RawTherapee offers three or four things that other apps don’t.

Negative Conversion works easy, just a simple tone curve swap. RawTherapee handled everything I threw at it, and every time it threw me for a loop, the RawPedia stepped in to save the day. There is a snapshot function as well, but it also resets when you navigate to another image. Īnd that’s about all I have in the way of complaints. Once you navigate to another image, the history resets.

The history window doesn’t remember… well, I guess it does, but only while you’re working on the image.

Not before this Raw converter testing thing ends, and not before I finish up that 47 year old roll of Ansco and put it through the R3 Monobath Developer that’s currently languishing in the film developing cupboard. Of course, that would necessitate a redesign of the Scan-O-Matic 7000… maybe it’s time for a mark IV? The other option would be to get closer… not only would I get more pixels of negative to push around, I’d also get higher resolution. There are a relatively large number of these simulations, and unlike similar Lightroom plugins, Film Simulation in RawTherapee is built-in and free.

Thanks to the Open Source underpinnings, RawTherapee has access to Pat David’s Hald CULT film simulations… BRILLIANT.

(or if it does, I can’t find it in the application or in the manual), so you’ll need to roll you own file management system.

It has pretty much everything you need to process RAW files in any way you see fit, as long as you’re willing to play around some, experiment, and RTFM, but it doesn’t do import, file management, etc.

It’s bad, because, for me, some of the locations of things don’t make much sense and there’s a ton of functionality that I’ve missed out on in the two weeks (off and on) I’ve spent with it. This is both good and bad: it’s good, because some actual human(s) made it, put stuff where it made sense to them, picked colors and icons and themes that were pleasing and or had some meaning to them, and included pretty much everything they thought they or their friends might need.

Like the open source app that it is, RawTherapee looks like an open source app.

It’s so good, in fact, that every time I go to check something, I find something new to try.Īnd that’s partly why I’m so behind in this project…

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If you don’t believe me, just dive in to the RawPedia, the most thorough and easy to use manual that I’ve encountered thusfar. RawTherapee is a very powerful Raw file converter/developer…Īnd I’ll just leave it at that.

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Installation: normal download dmg & drag app to Applications folder (or wherever you like).

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Platforms Available Tested: Linux, Mac, Windows