This helps me with two ongoing challenges I have. 1, I process an image until it looks good, but when I come back later, BAM it's too contrasty! Like my eyes in the moment adjust. I'm happy to hear your take on the contrast. Two, when I do need to add contrast/lightness, often the saturation goes wonky, particularly on skin tones. I'll go back and try with the Lab adjustments. I'm surprised to hear that the main exposure tab is working straight on RGB! Thanks for the vid.
Hi Andy, thanks for the great tutorial. I realise that different photos benefit from different processing techniques in RawTherapee but is there a way newbies can use a limited set of controls to get good enough images (most of the time) without knowing everything straight away? I'm used to Lightroom 6 and I'd like to get as good a results with RT as I can with LR in a similar amount of time but with RT I spend ages messing around but can't even match the camera jpegs 🤦♂️
Thank you for getting out such videos. What program do you use to cull images ? Knowing what a single tool does is the best way to master post processing rather than any image specific processing steps. Can you please go through all the histogram types in detail (what all ways we can make use of it) that's available in the dev build ?
Cheers 🍻 I cull from Lightroom because it's my image management hub, but FastRaw Viewer is pretty good as an alternative if you're not a Lightroom user. Have you seen the scopes video I did th-cam.com/video/jKkklBb9R8g/w-d-xo.html
Always enjoy the RT education, Andy. Thank you. Have you considered an editing example involving a drone photo? I switched mostly to RT from Lightroom specifically because RT seems to handle the skies much better out of box than Lightroom when talking about drone cameras, at least to my eye.
Excellent tutorial deserving repeated study. I have an issue about how bright to make my images. They seem plenty bright when I finish them, but pretty dim when I go back to them a week later. There are so many variables, the brightness of the monitor being a big one. Another is my memory of how bright it was when I shot the image-I try to duplicate reality as much as I can. And then one goes from the retina busters online to one's own images, and one feels like the dullard at the party. Is there a gauge for brightness of photos as there is for brightness of light, like candles or kelvins or something?
Hi Jim - if there is white with direct lighting then get it up to L*96 or 97, or RGB 254 or 98% to 99% but try and stay just under 99%. If you calibrate your monitor and get a validation on the profile it will tell you the white and black points of your monitor.
Retinex 😱😱😱😨😨😨 A mysterious module that fills me with dread and loathing Todd...........And I as yet have failed to see the benefit of CIECAM because I can achieve pretty much the same results elsewhere BUT, I need to do a deeper dive into it. But I am trying to make videos that keep things easy/simple so folk get used to RT. Once they are in the zone with RT they can tackle bigger ideas/modules like CIECAM, or indeed Ret........see, I can't even say the word!
Thank you for great tutorials. As someone new to editing, can you please make a video on when we should edit using which software? Do we need both Rawtherapee and PS, for instnce? What is the purpose of each? Thank you!
You are most welcome! To answer your question first of all I'd ask you to watch the first 6 or 7 minutes at least of this th-cam.com/video/G7gA8BL9NZs/w-d-xo.html - where I talk about quantitive and qualitative adjustments. In the very loosest of terms the former are done in a raw processor and the latter in the likes of Photoshop. How far you take an image in either one or the other is usually dependent on the quality of the original capture and the final destination of the image - print etc: Does that make sense?
And what didn't someone like about this video?? Thumbs Down with no comment are plain useless😡😡😡😡
Maybe it was the absence of a skinless cat. Personally, I found it incredibly helpful in the quest for perfection ... or at least 'alf decent
This helps me with two ongoing challenges I have. 1, I process an image until it looks good, but when I come back later, BAM it's too contrasty! Like my eyes in the moment adjust. I'm happy to hear your take on the contrast. Two, when I do need to add contrast/lightness, often the saturation goes wonky, particularly on skin tones. I'll go back and try with the Lab adjustments. I'm surprised to hear that the main exposure tab is working straight on RGB! Thanks for the vid.
Thanks, Andy. Very informative, giving me a better understanding of the RBG and LAB color space.
You're welcome Mike 👍
Fantastic video, so instructional, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Nice one Andy. Great demonstration of how to skin those cats :)
Cheers Peter 🍻🍻
Hi Andy, thanks for the great tutorial. I realise that different photos benefit from different processing techniques in RawTherapee but is there a way newbies can use a limited set of controls to get good enough images (most of the time) without knowing everything straight away? I'm used to Lightroom 6 and I'd like to get as good a results with RT as I can with LR in a similar amount of time but with RT I spend ages messing around but can't even match the camera jpegs 🤦♂️
Thank you for getting out such videos.
What program do you use to cull images ?
Knowing what a single tool does is the best way to master post processing rather than any image specific processing steps.
Can you please go through all the histogram types in detail (what all ways we can make use of it) that's available in the dev build ?
Cheers 🍻
I cull from Lightroom because it's my image management hub, but FastRaw Viewer is pretty good as an alternative if you're not a Lightroom user.
Have you seen the scopes video I did th-cam.com/video/jKkklBb9R8g/w-d-xo.html
Always enjoy the RT education, Andy. Thank you.
Have you considered an editing example involving a drone photo? I switched mostly to RT from Lightroom specifically because RT seems to handle the skies much better out of box than Lightroom when talking about drone cameras, at least to my eye.
Cheers Ian! No I have not considered that because I don't own a drone! But if you want to send me some.............😇🍻
Excellent tutorial deserving repeated study. I have an issue about how bright to make my images. They seem plenty bright when I finish them, but pretty dim when I go back to them a week later. There are so many variables, the brightness of the monitor being a big one. Another is my memory of how bright it was when I shot the image-I try to duplicate reality as much as I can. And then one goes from the retina busters online to one's own images, and one feels like the dullard at the party. Is there a gauge for brightness of photos as there is for brightness of light, like candles or kelvins or something?
Hi Jim - if there is white with direct lighting then get it up to L*96 or 97, or RGB 254 or 98% to 99% but try and stay just under 99%. If you calibrate your monitor and get a validation on the profile it will tell you the white and black points of your monitor.
@@AndyAstbury Thanks for the answer. I kind of understand it.
A nice followup to this one esp with this image would be Retinex and or CIECAM modules??
Retinex 😱😱😱😨😨😨 A mysterious module that fills me with dread and loathing Todd...........And I as yet have failed to see the benefit of CIECAM because I can achieve pretty much the same results elsewhere BUT, I need to do a deeper dive into it. But I am trying to make videos that keep things easy/simple so folk get used to RT. Once they are in the zone with RT they can tackle bigger ideas/modules like CIECAM, or indeed Ret........see, I can't even say the word!
It looks so obvious when you do it, Andy. I would probably end up with an x-ray image of a wolf.
Just trying to keep things really simple Eigil - cheers 🍻🍻
Crikey my friend I know where you are coming from fingers crossed for RT 5.9...
@@AndyAstbury I know, I was not being sarcastic. Just launched another sick joke from my isolation.
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Andy has forgotten more than some (many?) of us will ever learn about this stuff 😉🥃
Thank you for great tutorials. As someone new to editing, can you please make a video on when we should edit using which software? Do we need both Rawtherapee and PS, for instnce? What is the purpose of each? Thank you!
You are most welcome!
To answer your question first of all I'd ask you to watch the first 6 or 7 minutes at least of this th-cam.com/video/G7gA8BL9NZs/w-d-xo.html - where I talk about quantitive and qualitative adjustments.
In the very loosest of terms the former are done in a raw processor and the latter in the likes of Photoshop.
How far you take an image in either one or the other is usually dependent on the quality of the original capture and the final destination of the image - print etc:
Does that make sense?