![]() XF 14mm f/2.8 ( save $200): BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / Pictureline / kenmorecamera XF 23mm f/1.4 ( save $200): BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / Pictureline / kenmorecamera ![]() IN CONCLUSION: RawTherapee is very powerful, but it will make you work hard for good results, and you will not enjoy using it, but you will enjoy the results if you put enough time in.XF 56mm f/1.2 ( save $150): BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / Pictureline / kenmorecamera There's a very large, very high quality free pack of film simulation LUTs you can get from the RawTherapee wiki! For free! And you can easily convert other LUT formats to HaldCLUT, so you can pretty much use any kind of LUT you want with the film simulation engine. Robust film simulation support through HaldCLUTs. (It is worth noting that if you turn on some of these algorithms, it gets SLOW.) Multiple "effect" algorithms like Retinex, Soft Light (I think this is actually from GIMP?), all the Wavelet stuff, Dynamic Range Compression, Tone Mapping. ![]() You will need a good, color-calibrated monitor to really appreciate how sophisticated some of the controls are, but if you have the patience, you can do really cool stuff. How about 5 different ways to adjust saturation? (Way more than 5, if you get creative.) Multiple ways of adjusting shadows, highlights, overall dynamic range, micro-contrast, macro-contrast, and all kinds of really subtle effects. Incredibly powerful tools for adjusting color. But let me also talk about some of the things it does well: Ok, so it has some major, major problems. I have over a thousand processing profiles and the only way I can use them is via this stupid drowndown. And, combined with RT's lack of ability to save multiple snapshots to an image's sidecar, that means you are going to be using this dropdown. ![]() There is no other way to view/edit/manage your processing profiles. There's only one way to see your profiles: a single dropdown menu. It's embarrassing how insanely limited it is for such a fundamentally important part of the interface. The way you view and apply "processing profiles" is less than rudimentary. But if the app is using 45GB RAM with only 2 files open, and you close one, and memory use drops to 44GB, something is wrong.) Oh yeah, and it will not save your work if it crashes, because the sidecar is only saved if you close the file (or manually save it- it's NOT saved continuously/automatically). If you have multiple files open, closing files out will NOT free up RAM. It will do this even if you only have 1 file open in the editor. After 30-45 minutes of editing (depending on how hard you push it, and how many files you have open), it WILL consume all available RAM and crash. If you're working with noisy source files, use something else. Noise reduction is not great, and mostly just smears the colors at higher values. Keyboard shortcuts are not great, and not customizable. (ART, a RawTherapee fork, has added this feature, so it is clearly within the realm of doable.) Seriously! This is one of the most basic features of non-destructive RAW editors, and RT might be the only app in its class that can't do this. This is my #1 complaint about RT, and not having this feature has cost me. Even though you can save "snapshots" of settings while in the editor, those snapshots are NOT saved to the sidecar file, so you lose your snapshots when the file is closed. No ability to save "multiple versions" of an image into the sidecar. (However, despite these hugely annoying things, I am STILL using it, and have no plans to use anything else. However, it has some major limitations and issues that continue to seriously affect my work. It's extremely powerful and capable of very, very high quality results. I've been using RawTherapee as my only RAW processing software for almost three years now, and I've become deeply familiar with it.
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