RAWTHERAPEE
powerful opensource photo editor
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RAWTherapee is one of the most complete programs on the market to reveal RAW. It is a great unknown to most users. But it is a free software that is available to everyone who wants to reveal their RAW files with maximum precision.
this multiplatform version means that it can be used with any operating system, from Linux to Windows and Mac OS X.
The basis is DCRAW, an open source development application that can work as a development engine for different programs, like the one we have in hand. What it does is to work with a reverse engineering process to be able to edit any type of gross file that exists in the photographic market.
If there were no programs like RAWTherapee, we would have to write lines and lines of code, something more typical of engineers than of photographers who only want the best possible development of our images.
How to install RAWTherapee
The steps are very simple and do not require more wisdom than knowing how to download a program and give a following to have this program installed on our computer. But we can not forget that we are dealing with a program created by several people in an altruistic way throughout the world. That means that we can find versions in development and stable versions, which are the ones that we must download if we do not want complications.
Although the original RAWTherapee page is in English it is quite simple to find which one we have to download:
Let's go to the download page
We have three tabs to find the right version: operating system, 32 or 64 bits, and stable or developing version.
In my case I searched for the latest stable version of Windows 10 64 bits. In May of 2018 it is 5.4.
When we have downloaded the corresponding compressed folder in the place that we have chosen, we will have to decompress it and start the installation:
We chose the installation language, in this case English
We accept the license agreement after reading each and every one of the pages.
We accept the default folder where the program will be installed. At least we need 230 Mb of space. The simplest thing is to install it in the folder recommended by the creators of the program.
Again let us install the shortcuts and an icon for the desktop.
The installation will only take a few seconds and we will have the program running.
And we are ready to start revealing our photos in any raw format, as well as TIFF or jpeg. These last two formats do not make much sense to edit them with this program, but each one is free to do what they want, of course.
This program is an image library and a photo editor that works with a processing queue. This means that we can reveal other files while the program performs in the background all the instructions we have given to get a copy of the original file with the settings we have marked.
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