Raw Therapee is a program that you can use to make various image adjustments. It supports JPEG, BMP, TIFF and PNG, among other file types.
The interface of the application is easy to work with. Thanks to the intuitive Explorer-based layout, you can easily locate and select photographs for processing. Working with multiple items at the same time is possible.
So, you can modify pictures when it comes to the sharpening level (e.g. set method, radius and amount), edges (e.g. iterations, quantity), microcontrast, impulse noise reduction, noise reduction, defringe and contrast by detail levels.
Additionally, you can adjust the white balance, vibrance, channel mixer, HSV equalizer, RGB curves, color management, demosaicing, preprocessing, raw white and black points, dark frame, flat field and chromatic aberration.
Raw Therapee also lets you crop, resize and rotate images, switch to full screen mode, enable metadata filters, as well as configure fast export options (e.g. bypass edge sharpening and noise reduction). From the 'Preferences' area you can change the interface theme and language, switch to a different date format, set the path to the external editor (GIMP, Photoshop or other) and configure sounds, among others.
The image processing program uses a moderate amount of CPU and system memory and has a good response time. We have not come across any problems throughout our testing; Raw Therapee did not freeze, crash or pop up error dialogs. Unfortunately, there is no help file available; users need to have some experience in graphic editing software in order to work with this tool.
What's New in This Release:
New features:
· Support for Adobe LCP lens correction profiles
· Program plugger for Windows, to automatically find and be able to open right-clicked photos with popular photography programs
· Support of dual illuminant DCP profiles
Support for new cameras in addition to those already supported by dcraw:
· Nikon D800
· Canon EOS 5D Mark III
New camera DCP profiles:
· Nikon D5100
· Nikon D7000
· In addition to these new features, as usual there were numerous bug-fixes, and speed and stability improvements
Caveats:
· Default raw and non-raw processing profiles have changed. If you have used any version of RawTherapee older than 4.0.9, you must go to Preferences > Image Processing and select new default image processing parameters. It is recommended that you use "Default" for raw files and "Neutral" for image files.
· Risk of PP3 data loss - beware when running multiple RT versions
· RawTherapee cleans up obsolete or invalid tags from active PP3 files. The tag cleanup process is run ...