by strogonoff
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- The best raw image processing tool I know is called “RawTherapee”. It was developed by one or more absolute colour science geeks, it is CLI-scriptable, its companion RawPedia is a treasure trove of information (I learned many basics there, including how to create DCP profiles for calibration, dark frames, flat fields, etc.), and not to make a dig (fine, to make a bit of a dig) you can see the expertise starting with how it capitalizes “raw” in its name (which is, of course, not at all an acronym, though like with “WASM” it is a common mistake).
Beware though that it tends to not abstract away a lot of technicalities, if you dig deep enough you may encounter exotic terms like “illuminant”, “demosaicing method”, “green equilibration”, “CAM16”, “PU”, “nit” and so on, but I personally love it for that even while I am still learning what half of it all means.
I’d say the only major lacking feature of RT is support for HDR output, which hopefully will be coming by way of PNG v3 and Rec. 2100 support.
by polishdude20
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- Hey congrats on the app! This is just what I'm looking for :)
Just installed it on my m1 mac and opened a folder of RAW files.
The initial loading lagged my whole macbook. Couldn't even open the dock.
Once the thumbnails all loaded it's better but not as buttery smooth as I would have hoped! Would love to know what other commercial apps do that make them not lag. Is it just that they're written natively?
- Capture One I always thought was highly underrated and still easy to use. And I've never used of their PhaseOne cameras
by miladyincontrol
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- Will def keep an eye on things. If theres one 'must have' feature I can request, luminosity masking? Its hard to go back to raw editors that dont have it.
Its not the end all or be all to masking (ie color, saturation masking, etc) but is def one the most useful to have access to without having to bust open PS or similar.
Already having a workflow for AI based subject masking is def nice to see.
by Springtime
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- I'm glad there are an abundance of visual overviews in the readme. Too many readmes about GUI programs lack them (or they'll point to a site which still lacks a clear indication of how it behaves).
That said, they're all GIFs and each ~10-22MB. Making loading the readme larger than the program size itself. Embedding some video would be snappier.
- In my opinion, a web based UI for something like an image editor is a bad idea. It will be slow and resource intensive.
- I couldn't immediately find information about how the metadata is stored? Is it one shadow file per RAW file, as I've seen in other OSS RAW editors?
I'm not sure what the perfect solution is, but it is hard to sync a ton of shadow files to cloud storage, versus one big catalog file.
Is the metadata in an open format, so I can take the edits to other programs?
I am glad there's alternatives to having to shell out for Light Room every month. I only need to edit RAW files after holidays!
- Neat.
We need an easy to use RAW editor. For a long time I used Darktable, with default settings I would get images that where close to the camera jpeg. I just had to change in what artistic direction I wanted to go. With update after update I had to fight to even get decent skin colors.
Currently on a pirated copy of CaptureOne, but would rather use something open source (Or buy something affordable)
Do you have default camera and lens profiles build in?
- Wild, I was literally just today looking at this repository to see how I could do raw image thumbnailing in Rust. Coincidences...
- Running it on Windows 10 / AMD RX 6900 XT, and the app is extremely slow, dragging the window, adjusting any sliders takes considerable amount of time with 6000x4000 DNG files...
by mrbluecoat
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- > a personal challenge at the age of 18 ... with the support from Google Gemini
I'm no AI fanboy, but it's neat to see some dreams come true because of it.
- Is there a System Requirements page? What's the minimum OS version required?
by bjelkeman-again
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- Looks very interesting. How much work would it be to get this code signed for the Mac?
- Very nice, I will probably join your efforts on the project.
by brcmthrowaway
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- What is the difference between RAW and Bitmap. I thought Bitmap had no compression
- Why the decision to store edits in sidecar instead of the app’s library? I’m sure there’s pros/cons that were considered, so curious how the pros won out.
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