Best photo editing software - RawTherapee is a cross-platform raw image processing program, released under the GNU General Public License Version 3. It was originally written by Gábor Horváth of Budapest, Hungary, before being re-licensed as free and open-source software in January 2010.
This software provides you with a selection of powerful tools with which you can practice the art of developing raw photos. The name used to stand for "The Experimental Raw Photo Editor"; however that acronym has been dropped, and RawTherapee is now a full name in itself.
This software provides you with a selection of powerful tools with which you can practice the art of developing raw photos. The name used to stand for "The Experimental Raw Photo Editor"; however that acronym has been dropped, and RawTherapee is now a full name in itself.
RawTherapee comprises a subset of image editing operations specifically aimed at non-destructive raw photo post-production and is primarily focused on improving a photographer's workflow by facilitating the handling of large numbers of images.
A few days ago, the RawTherapee 5 ( latest version ) has been released. It supports most raw formats, including some unusual ones like those from cameras using Foveon and X-Trans sensors.
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If you're wondering whether it supports your camera's raw format, first download RawTherapee 5 and try for yourself. If a raw format is not supported it will either not open, or the preview in the Editor tab will appear black, white, or have a strong color cast - usually magenta.
RawTherapee 5 New Features
- Wavelets tool
- Retinex tool
- Monitor profile and rendering intent support
- Print soft-proofing support
- Automatic chroma noise reduction, manual luminance noise reduction using sliders and curves.
- The "Inspect" tab in the File Browser lets you see a 100% preview of the image whose thumbnail your mouse cursor hovers over, which is either the largest JPEG image embedded in the raw file or the image itself when hovering over non-raw images
- The curve pipette allows you to pick the right point of a curve by clicking in the preview, and input/output values so that you can set the desired output value for a given input value
- Post-resize sharpening, to give your photos that subtle crispness after resizing them
- Dual-illuminant DCP support with curves, base tables, look tables and baseline exposure
- New exposure tone curve modes "Luminance" and "Perceptual"
- Queue processing will stop if an error is encountered while saving, e.g. if you run out of disk space
- The Contrast by Detail Levels tool received the "Process Locate Before/After Black-and-White" option
- Rec. 2020 ICC profile added
- The Navigator can show RGB, HSV and L*a*b* values in a range of 0-255, 0-1 or %
- The Lockable Color Picker allows you to place multiple sample points over the preview to measure colors and see them change in real time as you manipulate the image. They support the same ranges as the Navigator
- Grayscale JPEG and TIFF images are now supported
- 32-bit TIFF files are supported
- In addition to these new features, RawTherapee received over two years worth of amazing speedups, code cleanups and bug fixes, making it faster and more stable than ever before!
Installing RawTherapee 5 in Ubuntu Linux
Thankfully, it's available in PPA repository for Ubuntu variants including 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, Linux Mint 18, Elementary OS Loki, and its derivatives distributions.
Here are how to install this free professional photo editing software :
Step 1 - Open terminal window ( Ctrl+Alt+T )
Step 2 - Run the command below to add Albert PPA repository in Ubuntu :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
Type your password and press enter to continue
Step 3 - Update the local packages by running :
sudo apt-get update
Step 4 - Once updated, now simply run the following command to install the app in your Ubuntu :
sudo apt install rawtherapee
Please note you won't be able to upgrade using Software Updater since the PPA build miss data and debug files.
That's it! Well, for those who don't want to add the PPA, you can head to its launchpad page and simply grab the RawTherapee deb installer. Thanks for visiting us!