It will do batch work as well and even save settings with an image. Well using PP to it's full extent picture by picture always is. The complaint that some times gets me is a long complicated work flow. Glad to hear some one has actually used Rawtherapee Donald. It too relies on the GIMP for local retouching. Photivo itself is a bit of a juggernaut and contains a vast bewildering array of PP filters. Photivo find them and extract the ones needed. The easiest answer is to install another one. Finding the correct camera colour profiles can be a bit of a problem at times. The person who maintains it is considering my complaints about the latest and some previous versions at the moment. Once that has been done compiling the latest version from source is trivial. It can be installed directly from most distributions. It's site has a very good set of video tutorials. I feel the latest version has gone a little astray at the moment so I would suggest version 13.12 because slight brightness adjustments toss users straight into the deep end at the moment on 14.01.1. If you happen to be a Linux user I would suggest trying Fotoxx. There are some decent tutorials on PP on CinC off the home page. All packages use them so a tutorial for one is good for another. Curve is the appropriate word to use here as curves are used to control the process. There is a fair old learning curve involved in that which ever package is used but defaults can be used. In essence raw conversion is about getting camera colour spaces into some lower bit count default in a manner suitable for further processing. Rawtherapee tosses in a number of other things as well even LAB adjustments now. Ufraw is more of a pure raw conversion package. It should export to other packages as well. Ufraw also has a button that will export directly to the GIMP. From raw I either use Ufraw, Rawtherapee or Fotoxx but the latter is only available for Linux. Last time I saw stated figures Rawtherapee uses 16bit and Adobe products 15. There is a lot of miss understanding about the effects of 8bit colour but in essence post processing can cause banding but in my experience it has to be pretty extreme to do that. It's was reckoned to use 8bit colour however the last few versions are 32bit floating point colour. There is an auto levels and the default settings are usually sensible but that's about it. It's downsides are few apart from instant gratification buttons. Interestingly for Nikon users it explains just how to get hold of and use Nikon's ICC files from NEX. The manual is fairly understandable and doesn't have too many pages. There help pages are also a lot better than they used to be. There are a lot of GIMP tutorials about on the web. The GIMP also has a lot of graphic artist facilities that may look pointless to photographers. Generally doing some things in the GIMP involves using more layers than PS. The GIMP is a full blown layers package and many people reckon it's just as capable as PS - if some one knows how to use it. That's left to the GIMP and there is a button available to export to other editors directly. Rawtherapee will do just about everything you might want to do to a raw file, jpg, png or tiff except local editing with what people usually call brushes, dodging, burning, cloning, healing and also selection work. I used RT before I bought DxO Optics because I felt it offered me more and I found it excellent to use. No big deal unless you can't be bothered with all that 'faffing' about, or you're in a hurry. It's about have to save it as a TIFF, open up Elements, open the TIFF and then carry on from there. You can't just hit the button and, by magic going on under the hood, have it appear ready for further, final work in Elements. If that seems like a good idea to you, then, yes, RT will have something to offer.īut as Manfred says, it's not as seamlessly integrated with the packages that come next e.g. Some of us to subscribe to the notion that you should do as much as you can at the RAW stage. The question for you is whether you want/need that. So, yes, there will be the opportunity for more work to be done at the RAW stage with Raw Therapee than with the ACR you have. With Elements it is indeed a basic model of ACR that's included, so you are not getting some of the features of the ACR that's packaged with the full-blown Photoshop.
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