Comments on: Raw Therapee - Experimental RAw Photo Editor

By: Wyatt

Wyatt — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:01:50 +0000

First things first, love the videocast. I have always been a little daunted by the GIMP and you have made it much more accessible. I am excited to continue learning at your feet.
It sounds like you already made a decision not do a video on Raw Therapee. If you are still considering it I would love to see one. I have just started using it and it seems like a really powerful and quite flexible tool. An alternative would be to have a little comparison episode about the differences between UFRAW and Raw Therapee.
In any case keep up the great work.

By: DRB

DRB — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:57:09 +0000

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!

By: eT

eT — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:32:30 +0000

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?

By: Rolf

Rolf — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:42:33 +0000

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 GÃƒÂ¡bor 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.

By: Giulio

Giulio — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:28:36 +0000

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?

By: Peter Russell

Peter Russell — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:26:22 +0000

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

By: Marcin

Marcin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:23:45 +0000

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.

By: Macin

Macin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:22:22 +0000

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

By: Tobias

Tobias — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:31:40 +0000

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