RawTherapee 4.0.10 User Manual Downloaded from Google Docs on 2013-03-08 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DHLb_6xNQsEInxiuU8pz1-sWNinnj09bpBUA4_Vl8w8/edit If you would like to help translate this manual, read this forum introductory thread: http://www.rawtherapee.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2943#p21647 RawTherapee 4.0.10 User Manual Page 1 of 94 Table of Contents Introduction..............................................................................................................................5 Welcome!............................................................................................................................5 Features..................................................................................................................................6 General Features................................................................................................................6 Exposure and Color Features.............................................................................................7 Detail Features....................................................................................................................7 Transformation Features ....................................................................................................7 Raw Pre-Demosaicing Features.........................................................................................8 The Floating Point Engine...................................................................................................8 Installation notes...................................................................................................................10 Making a Portable Installation...........................................................................................11 For Windows.................................................................................................................11 For Linux.......................................................................................................................11 Using RawTherapee..............................................................................................................12 First Run............................................................................................................................12 Editor Tab Modes..............................................................................................................13 The Image Editor Tab........................................................................................................13 The Left Panel..............................................................................................................13 The Right Panel............................................................................................................14 Preview modes.............................................................................................................15 Saving...........................................................................................................................18 The Batch Queue..............................................................................................................19 8-bit and 16-bit..................................................................................................................21 Naming..............................................................................................................................22 Sidecar Files - Processing Profiles...................................................................................22 Creating processing profiles for general use....................................................................22 Closing RawTherapee......................................................................................................23 Edit Current Image in External Editor...............................................................................23 The Toolbox...........................................................................................................................25 Panels...........................................................................................................................25 Sliders...........................................................................................................................25 Curve Editors................................................................................................................25 The Preview Area.........................................................................................................26 Exposure Tab....................................................................................................................26 Exposure panel.............................................................................................................26 Highlight Reconstruction...............................................................................................34 Shadows/Highlights......................................................................................................34 Tone Mapping...............................................................................................................35 Lab Adjustments...........................................................................................................36 RGB versus Lab...........................................................................................................45 CIE Color Appearance Model 2002..............................................................................46 Detail Tab..........................................................................................................................46 Sharpening....................................................................................................................46 Edges............................................................................................................................48 Microcontrast................................................................................................................49 Impulse Noise Reduction..............................................................................................49 Noise Reduction...........................................................................................................49 Defringe........................................................................................................................50 RawTherapee 4.0.10 User Manual Page 2 of 94 Contrast by Detail Levels..............................................................................................51 Color Tab...........................................................................................................................52 White Balance...............................................................................................................52 Vibrance........................................................................................................................55 Channel Mixer...............................................................................................................56 HSV Equalizer..............................................................................................................56 RGB Curves..................................................................................................................59 Color Management.......................................................................................................59 Transform tab....................................................................................................................63 Crop..............................................................................................................................63 Resize...........................................................................................................................63 Lens / Geometry...........................................................................................................64 Raw Tab............................................................................................................................67 Demosaicing.................................................................................................................67 Preprocessing...............................................................................................................68 Raw White & Black Points............................................................................................68 Dark Frame...................................................................................................................69 Bad Pixels.....................................................................................................................70 Flat Field.......................................................................................................................71 Chromatic Aberration....................................................................................................77 Metadata tab.....................................................................................................................78 Exif tab..........................................................................................................................78 IPTC tab........................................................................................................................78 Preferences Window.............................................................................................................80