Not before this Raw converter testing thing ends, and not before I finish up that 47 year old roll of Ansco and put it through the R3 Monobath Developer that’s currently languishing in the film developing cupboard. Of course, that would necessitate a redesign of the Scan-O-Matic 7000… maybe it’s time for a mark IV? The other option would be to get closer… not only would I get more pixels of negative to push around, I’d also get higher resolution. There are a relatively large number of these simulations, and unlike similar Lightroom plugins, Film Simulation in RawTherapee is built-in and free.

Thanks to the Open Source underpinnings, RawTherapee has access to Pat David’s Hald CULT film simulations… BRILLIANT.(or if it does, I can’t find it in the application or in the manual), so you’ll need to roll you own file management system. It has pretty much everything you need to process RAW files in any way you see fit, as long as you’re willing to play around some, experiment, and RTFM, but it doesn’t do import, file management, etc.It’s bad, because, for me, some of the locations of things don’t make much sense and there’s a ton of functionality that I’ve missed out on in the two weeks (off and on) I’ve spent with it. This is both good and bad: it’s good, because some actual human(s) made it, put stuff where it made sense to them, picked colors and icons and themes that were pleasing and or had some meaning to them, and included pretty much everything they thought they or their friends might need. Like the open source app that it is, RawTherapee looks like an open source app.It’s so good, in fact, that every time I go to check something, I find something new to try.Īnd that’s partly why I’m so behind in this project… If you don’t believe me, just dive in to the RawPedia, the most thorough and easy to use manual that I’ve encountered thusfar. RawTherapee is a very powerful Raw file converter/developer…Īnd I’ll just leave it at that. Installation: normal download dmg & drag app to Applications folder (or wherever you like). Platforms Available Tested: Linux, Mac, Windows

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