Ken Norton wrote:
> Is anybody use RawTherapee? I downloaded it last night and started playing
> around with it. So far, I'm pretty impressed--impressed enough that I might
> finally retire RSE. But I'm a little leery of driving down this B-Grade Road
> if there is a huge "gotcha" awaiting me.
>
I'm not aware of any gotchas. It's been around for quite some time and
they seem to be serious about becoming competitive with larger products
with the new version. I used it for my A720 RAW files and liked the
results. It didn't support A650 files until a recent beta release. I've
tried the beta only enough to see that it will do A650 files. The first
one I tried didn't save files quite the way it's supposed to, but there
have been a couple of releases since then.
I'll probably try it one of these days for A650 files, but batching with
dcraw is working quite well, so there's no hurry.
> I did notice some performance issues--it isn't particularily fast on my
> machine and I think the program has a memory-leak problem, but the
> conversions I was getting were outstanding and the user-interface has the
> features I need.
>
I can't really help much there. I generally use RAW converters as just
that. The only adjustments I make are those that control exposure/tonal
distribution and WB. It certainly seems to have controls and sliders for
more things than I'm sure I understand,s ort of like my recollection of
LightRoom.
However, I do everything beyond setting white and black points, exposure
and highlight recovery and adjusting WB, in PS. I like to separate the
two functions, so I can use different RAW converters without learning
all the different image manipulation bells and whistles on each. Also,
I'm lost without layers and some other tools , so I would have to go
through PS eventually on many images anyway.
So I can't comment on how well all those other fancy adjustment thingies
work. The few I use work well.
Moose
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