Micro-contrast: off (sometimes this is brilliant, not on this occasion).Īt this point i would convert maybe two different exposures and blend them in gimp. I want to preserve detail in the dark areas so I use a custom luminescence curve, it smooths the clouds and leave the elephants alone.Įdges: off (this always looks horrible when enabled) Okay now to noise (what noise you say), in the sky. Hue curve: hold control and drag yellow up so that it takes on more green Saturation curve: bring everything down and lift green (The first thing I notice about this image is that there was too much red.) Right then next I look at colour some more! Okay so colour weirdness sorted (more or less) next I look at exposure.īump saturation 47 (will fiddle with saturation later) at this stage I have luminescence:0 because I don't want to think about luminescence noise yet (I also switch off sharpening). but first I turn on noise reduction to eliminate chroma noise. Next I look at the upper right corner of the thorny tree (centre frame), because this will show the worst fringing/colour weirdness. cie colour appearance enabled (because sometimes the croma curve is useful. Most of it I was able to play around with however Lab Adjustments.well there I'm just lost. I hope this "guide" will help you, feel free to ask me if you have any more specific questions. When you have found settings you use often, you can save them as personal Processing profiles. I think you can get good results from these controls, and later you can get deeper into the other tools RT offers. enable "Film Simulation" for changing the color mood of your image follow the instruction on Rawpedia for Howto and downloading preset CLUT files for more control to contrast, enable "Contrast by Detail Levels" and either just click on "Contrast +", or adjust the sliders for finer control for noisy high ISO images, enable "Noise reduction" and play with the Luminance curve (allows to have stronger NR in the shadows, where noise is generally more intrusive) sliding the left control point towards the top wil increase the NR strength in shadows enable "Unsharp mask" (preview effect visible only at 100% zoom) tweak colors with "Lab adjustments" if you need to you can play with "Tone mapping" at a low level (Strength set to 0.10) to add some pop play with "Exposure compensation" and/or "Lightness", "Highlight compression" You can get more control by first fidling with the settings found in the first three tabs: When you load an image, at the top of the control panel you'll see a dorp-down menu called "Processing profiles", and you can play with them. I would adise you first to try some of the development presets bundle with the program. Indeed the learning curve may seem steep, even more so when you come from another software which your are used to. I use Rawtherapee with for my X-T1 raw development. That is all I do, mostly all need all these steps. But recently, I like to use film simulation to get the kodachrome 64 look, or the Ilford B&W look. Remember to trun on the dettails square or go 100% in order to see the effect of sharpen and NR.Ĩ. Move to the Sharpen and NR tab, if you need more sharpening (the default setting already turn on sharpening). Move down to LAB adjustment, if all you did above is still not satisfactory. If you like play with Tone mapping ( a very quick and dirty tools)ĥ. Move down to Highlights and Expose recovery, turn it on and move the sliders to see if it pleases youĤ. Look at the histogram, and see if you need more or less exposure compensationģ. Under exposure tab, I use Default (which has a certain set of tools enabled already).Ģ. Once you get to know these tools, you will develop your work flow and just pick and choose which tool to use for your photo.ġ. All you need is to do down each tab and try the tool for once and decide if it is any good, if not move on to another one down the. There is always a learning curve with anything that is new to you. I am a long term user of RT, and I use it for my Nikon D80 and Fuji X-E1. Why don't you post your question to the RT user forum? The moderators and developers are very helpful.
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