RawTherapee 5.9, recently updated open source image management and raw editing
piece of software. Let's check it out! Usually I use something called Acdsee Photo
Studio Ultimate, which I will compare here and there between this program.
I'm using the same set of images that I used in my Acdsee video.
A bunch of different raw files and then you can tell right here is that they all loaded properly.
I can see previews of everything. Very simple layout here
I like it. It's to the point. You have some tabs on the side here:
editor, queue for doing batch processing, and then the file browser which is default.
On the other side we have more vertical tabs: filter, inspect which is an interesting one
we'll check out, fast export, and batch edit. One thing I did notice it was a little bit slow
to start up, which isn't ideal for me but my computer is not the fastest thing ever.
Here is Acdsee Photo Studio Ultimate again we can pop up this one.
It's not as fast with previewing thumbnails and such which is irritating.
Here are the new features in 5.9. The spot removal tool.
Acdsee does have a similar tool that's non-destructive, I'll have to check that out.
Local adjustment tool was added. A wide range of operations on an
area of an image that sounds pretty good. This one's called the wavelet levels tool...
I was looking at that and I jump to their documentation.
This has a huge huge amount of documentation on wavelets.
Just reading through their documentation I think would be a big benefit to anyone interested in
getting into the nitty-gritty of image editing. Keyboard shortcuts... I do have a Dtream Deck
which I would love to make a profile for RAWTherapee at some point,
but it's good to see that it definitely has a lot of options there and a bunch of cameras as well.
RAW formats, color profiles.. there was a time where cr3 Canon raw images
were barely supported in software. And finally the open source stuff is
getting that support which is great. I see the M6 Mark II in here.
Let's go over to the side panel here it says enable meta data filters,
so we click that check box.. now we can use all of this functionality on the side it loaded
all the cameras in this folder which is great. Some of them unknown unknown.. let me see which..
I have to click that checkbox. Unknown would be a cr3.
If you have two cameras on a photo shoot you can quickly switch between one or the
other if they are different. However if you have different
lenses you can do that as well. So I click this check box undo
this one and.. like 100 f/2, which is a Yongnuo lens that I had at one point.
24 to 50.... I think that's, yeah.. that's the Nikon Z lens I believe.
You can even go into apertures here, so I'm going to uncheck this and put f/1.4.
I know I have a few of those in there and you can do ranges of aperture,
but I'm going to do just f/1.4. Click the checkbox and then all
those images at the aperture. There's also a textual search.
I'm gonna undo this undo that and just type Canon, see (if) that works... yeah.
Very very fast. I could see using this in the future
just because it feels so quick, so responsive. And on the side we have these other ones...
Inspect, it takes a little bit of time for my computer to start it up
but uh it's a very interesting feature. Maybe I could make this a little larger
or I can even go into like two photos and as you scroll around the preview it picks that area of
the photo to show you a larger version of. I like the idea of that and it feels quick,
which Acdsee... I like that software and it has a lot of functionality too but there are
some things that are pretty slow. With the batch edit you have the
top tabs of different things as well as in each one you have a list of options.
I would assume batch edit means you can select a few of them at once, so I'm going to hold shift
down on the keyboard pick a few of those and let's say we want to change exposure... Pop this open.
Wow, that's a lot of stuff here and just you maybe simply expose your compensation.
Yeah, and we can undo with this little marker here.
So we have file operations we have rank so you can easily cull images,
select the best ones out of a group. Go here right click processing profile operations.
I'm going to copy that I'm going to paste it in one of these and see...
So you can paste partial. You can paste the full thing,
yeah.. okay so that works very good! Graduated filters, vignette,
dynamic range compression, tone mapping, shadows highlights, lab adjustments...
You can open and close these areas by clicking on them, but you have to click
this little power button to use it. Spot removal.. turn this on.
Find what we want. Hold control down.
Select an area... Go back, let me zoom in here...
Adjust the inner circle, there we go... Take this down we don't need that much blur, cool!
So we got edges, micro contrast, noise reduction, man there's a lot of stuff here.
And here we've got vibrance, channel mixer, black and white, HSV,
film simulations, local adjustments... Okay so here's the one it had mentioned
to adjust certain areas. Here we can click add
and it added this thing here we can move around.
There we go! It's just editing this part of the image.
Again, extremely extremely important is turn on the little power button for each thing.
We've got resize... I have lens geometry,
algorithmic, linear, autofill, specific image.. Got the M5 with 32 millimeter f/1.4 which should
be the right combination so that's good. Even have sensor related
demosaicing. Different versions of it. We have a huge amount of adjustment here with
the raw images and getting exactly what you want. Flat field, pre-processing,
raw white points, black points, dark frame, flat field, capture sharpening...
A lot of this is going to take a good amount of time to figure out what will work best for
you with specific cameras. The little uhh tab here,
so this is always useful information. We got the iptc.. exif and it pulls up
looks like pretty much everything you'd want. So there are a lot of things this does not
have that Acdsee does have related to comparing images or doing raster
editing with the ultimate version of Acdsee. Let's say we wanted to export some of these.
So let's press that and it added those images to this queue.
Got JPEG, TIFF, PNG... There's an auto start feature.
I can pause it or restart it. Feels pretty quick! If you want to do a lot of raw editing...
Quickly batch processes, selecting a bunch of photos at the same time,
adjusting them... going into individual photos adding the spot removal or targeted adjustments.
With all the other stuff, that's great! Looks good.
Again, feels pretty quick which is nice compared to what I use standard usually it
doesn't have as many features and all that but I can see using this as a quicker more targeted
approach to culling and editing your raw files. Yeah, that was looking at RAWTherapee 5.9.
Hope you enjoyed the video. Scott of Photography Banzai, thanks!