By default, the app uses tabs to keep the images you open separate from each other a file-browser tab (from which you can make adjustments to selected images) and a “batch queue” tab are also visible at all times. RawTherapee uses the same UI conventions as most other raw photo tools: file-and-directory tree down the left-hand side, image workspace in the middle, and vertical strip of adjustment tools down the right. The manual gives a good tour of the interface, but its best feature is documentation of the individual tools: what “color propagation,” “impulse noise reduction,” and “RL deconvolution” actually do is not self-explanatory even to many photographers. If it is your first time using RawTherapee, you might find it worthwhile to grab the user manual (although, frustratingly, it is only provided as a PDF file). Only the actual file names reveal that one package has the debug symbols turned on.Īssuming you eventually find the bundle you are interested in, it unpacks into a self-contained directory containing a standard launcher script. Even after you narrow your choices down to “stable, Linux, 32-bit” there are several identically-named (and identically-detailed) packages. In my opinion, the wealth of download offerings listed on the page is a bit confusing, as is the “filter tool” at the top and the need to click on individual items to see their details. A separate page lists build for other distros, including Fedora. On the RawTherapee downloads page, you can grab installers for Windows and Mac machines, as well as 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the application packaged for the Ubuntu and Gentoo distributions. Many are users of non-Linux OSes, which is good for the outreach side of promoting open source. In the two years since developer Gabor Horvath switched from a proprietary licensing system to the GPLv3, a small team of contributors has grown up around the RawTherapee code. But this release also marks the first major update to the program since it was made free software. RawTherapee is noteworthy for several reasons, including the fact that builds are available for Mac OS X and Windows, in addition to Linux. The open source raw photo editor RawTherapee released version 3.0 at the end of July, with a revamped interface and a new palette of photo tools.
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