Raw Therapee - Experimental RAw Photo Editor
Marcin (Martii) pointed me to this RAW conversion program. It does run under Linux and Windows XP/2000. No mention of Vista or Mac.
The screen shots look nice, but I haven’t tried it yet. Shall I cover this program in a show? It doesn’t seem to be open source, but free to download. Where shall I draw the line?
HINT: There is a Donation button on his site. Use it, if you like the software.
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October 29th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Hello Rolf,
my first impression on Raw Therapee was that it is a powerful tool but without any useable workflow. So if you find out how to use it efficiently and are happy with it developing some photos, a video tutorial might be a good help for some users.
Thank you for the good tutorials - I started learning Gimp and they are a great help.
Best regards - Ischa Freimarkt
Tobias
October 29th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
After seeing ufraw I felt ready to try Raw Therapee. It covers much more compared to ufraw, feels faster. Has workflow history - so I can save it and then use it. Reads ICC profiles, much nicer interface compared to ufraw. For example you can have Picture in Picture like window with 100% crop. I like it
October 29th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
And if you like it please Donate. It’s just $5 (or more if you feel that way) to give author some support. This software is worth much more than $5.
October 29th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
I did try it but I have been spending more time with ufraw lately. I will go back and have another look at it. If I remember there were a couple things I wasn’t really happy about. I will let you know if I remember what they were.
Regards pete
October 29th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
I’d prefer if you cover only free software, but that’s my own opinion.
Also you have already covered raw conversion, liquid rescale, why not for example greycstoration ( http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstoration/index.html ) that seems free software and also a new argument?
October 29th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Giulio, that was my gut feeling also.
I draw a line for this project. Mentioning closed source software is OK in the show and in the blog (I wish Gábor all the best for his project - and if you use his software, fork over some money) , but I’ll cover only software in the videos that is free as in GPL, BSD or similar licenses.
That plugin looks really good - I heard about it but had forgotten that it exists. Put on the list.
February 11th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
I was googling after “RAW Therapee” and “Mac” … to end up here.
GIMP with UFRaw is great, thanks to ” http://wilber-loves-apple.org/ ” The GIMP and UFRaw run perfectly (and easy installable!) on Mac OS X / MacMini … but UFRaw can only handle/preview/open one RAW-file at a time. RAWShooter (gone in glory, eaten up by Adobe to be come expensive PayWare) showed the way for a nice and intuitive user-interface … RAW Therapee uses it even more beautiful (the list of photos/files _under_ the main window) … but couldn’t it be possible to implement such an interface in UFRaw or sort of? Or did I miss any GPLware / FreeWare programm covering this?
eT
May 5th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I too would like to see an episode on GREYCstoration - I found out about this software quite a while ago but have not taken the time to try it out yet.
I also would like to encourage you to stick with open source software - aside from all the philosophical reasons I think it is part of the feel of this show. This show certainly helps to fill a gap in the software world as well - good documentation and tutorials!