![]() Then, since RT 5.0 and more recent updates, Rawtherapee started to really fix a lot of its shortcomings, with more tonemapping algorithms, better performance on Windows (Rawtherapee can now process 24 megapixel files on my family’s decade old Windows 7 desktop, in which previously, it would crash easily), even more color controls, Lensfun, a functioning and competitive shadows/highlights control that doesn’t produce halos or other artifacts, improved chromatic aberration correction, and a general increase in stability and performance. Still, initial impressions from inexperienced users are going to favor the capabilities of Lightroom noise reduction, but once one gets versed with tuning the noise reduction in Rawtherapee, the comparison becomes a wash. There was so many obscure features in Rawtherapee that I came to rely on, such as dark frame subtraction, demosaicing algorithm control, RL deconvolution, which looks much more organic than LR sharpening whilst increasing resolution, flatfields (can be used to eliminate sensor dust spots in a pinch). Also, Wavelets are so much more powerful and capable than a single clarity slider. In the last few years, I acquired the budget for buying a Sony Capture One full liscence, or doing a Creative Cloud subscription, but I ultimately chose not to, as one, I had grown accustomed to the power and control I had with the Lab color tab and all the different convenient curve options it had, which allowed me to do complicated color corrections efficiently, that I’d have to create a mess of complicated masks to do the same thing in Photoshop, and forget even trying in Lightroom. As such, I credit learning on Rawtherapee for how much knowledge and confidence editing as I do now. As I learned how to use Rawtherapee through mostly experimentation with a little reading of the documentation, the amount of control and lack of doing things under the hood really accelerated my learning the practical process and technical theory of raw processing (I doubt that many Lightroom/Photoshop users even know what demosaicing is, and trying to increase the color saturation without getting terrible out of gammut color blobs with Lab color S-Curves is so much more educational than just dragging a vibrancy slider up that does all the thinking for you). Nonetheless, I still used rawtherapee, as it was my only option for editing photos at home.Īt first, I was somewhat overwhelmed by all the confusing options, although I knew enough basic theory to know what I was doing. At first, I judged it to be somewhat inferior to the adobe products I had some access to at school, somewhat based on legitimate comparative weaknesses, and some on baseless internet dogma of the supremacy of the Adobe Camera Raw engine. So I think I downloaded the first free raw processor I found on Google, which happened to be Rawtherapee. The next Christmas I got a used DSLR for Christmas, and neither me nor my parents could afford Photoshop/Lightroom (Back when it cost an arm and a leg to make the purchase upfront). When I started out in photography, I was just a sophomore in highschool (15 year old in primary public education for those that aren’t familiar with the US education system). RT has great tools if you really need to go the extra mile (Wavelets, Retinex, CIE).RT has great tools for images that need special treatment, like high contrast images, flat images (local contrast, dynamic range compression, etc).RT has great possibilies to work on color and luminances (LAB, all the things the color tab).RT does very good and realistic basic processing (noise, sharpen, exposure, lens correction, demosaic, etc).Maybe four (amazing) images with titles alluding to specific strengths of RT, and with a link to the specific field of interest. I would probalby present different topics of interest. Something like post where you see a dull before and amazing after image also works great optically. Now technically that is ok, but emotionally it is a huge turn-off. ![]() I remember when I started with RT and looked for youtube videos, the ones I found where explaining the functions of some tools on ugly boring pictures. Humans are simple, so every screenshot has to show amazing images!! What bit of information or screenshot would most speak to you if you…
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