Raw Therapee Basics: The New Local Adjustments - pt1
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Raw Therapee Basics: The New Local Adjustments
In this weeks video I start a series looking at the powerful new Local Adjustments available in the development build of Raw Therapee, and these adjustments will also be in the next public release.
If you thought conventional local adjustments such as those in Lightroom were great, you will find the Raw Therapee local adjustments leave those streets behind.
Imagine Lightrooms local adjustments hybridised with those of Capture One, then cross-bred with U-Point technology and then feed the result a huge dose of steroids!
There are multiple tools you can add to 'adjustment spots' to make changes to dynamic range, colour, contrast, noise reduction any virtually anything else you can think of. Plus, you can control the reach and scope of the adjustments with both transition controls and shape detection, and you can gain even tighter control with preview 'masks'.
First time I came upon one of your tutorials; “nah, I don’t want to spend my time on that guy!”
After I sat down and seriously studied a dozen of them; “Bless me with a new video, oh you High Priest of rawtherapee!”
Thank you!
Thank! High Priest - there's a few who would disagree on that point.......!
This was the BEST video describing how to use this tool! Thank you! I learned so much.
You're very welcome!👍🍻😎
Finally. Local editing adjustments are around the corner, for better or worse :-)
The depth of 'adjustablity' you have access to is mind-boggling Silvio! The big question is - how do you wield that power efficiently? Having power is only useful if you know how to use it.👍🍻
amazing video and great news this local adjustments in raewtherapee. I can't wait to see your next video and try all this stuff. As always thank you very much for sharing your knowledge!!!!
Thanks Carlos 🍻🍻
Really useful feature to look forward to, which appears to give a direct alternative to using the colour editor in Capture One to generate very subtle masks based on HSL.
Thank you! Very useful information!
Thank you very much for showing us these amazing new features in RawTherapee. They are all I needed to forget about Capture One. Thank you for teaching us how to use them. And thank you very much for the humour; Even though my understanding of your language does not include the understanding of your humour, I still enjoy your jokes very much.
Thank you Raul 🍻🍻👍
Always up for dad jokes Andy. 👍👍 Local adjustments done the Raw therapee way. Who'd have thought it would be a bit complex and different to lightroom?......... Certainly looks very powerfulI I must say. Look forward to the next installment . Cheers Andy,
Cheers Mark🍻😀 But as Bachman Turner Overdrive once said, you ain't seen n..n..n..nothin' yet!
Great video as always.
Thanks Dom👍🍻
Ok, that's pretty dam cool.
thank you for the amazing tutorial! you are doing an amazing job at explaining :)
You're very welcome!🍻🍻
Wow, this is going to be a fun new feature.
It certainly is Jose - cheers 🍻🍻
Your videos are little slow and long but made me undestand many tools that i thought dont work coming from other softwares . You really are pro in raw therapee
Local adjustments are what a lot of us are waiting for. So far I mostly rescued myself with the Graduated Filter and in some seldom cases with the Vignette Filter. But that is just a relief for much bigger pains.
Accidentally I found yesterday “Art RawTherapee”. It seems to be worth to take a look. It has some other interesting features, too. I hope they, Art and RawTherapee, can join their paths instead of drifting away one from another.
I have ART on my system, as well as Darktable - but the shear scope and power of RT is superior to both - in my opinion of course Ricardo😀 Within the RT local adjustment tools are masks and even Blend Modes a la Photoshop - all these will be covered over the next few months on this channel.
@@AndyAstbury Thank you, Andy!
Great to see local adjustments coming to RT.
Of course, Lightzone has had it for years.
Excellent. Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Have you dropped using a camera in your recent videos? I just randomly stumbled upon this channel and video, and having then checked the newest ones I noticed the difference... What I meant to say was that the camera view does make your talking session a lot more comfy-nice, and I do think you have things to offer with your funny facial expressions.
😆😆😆👍 Yes, I have - temporarily! I used to use an Osmo Pocket but it's not a streaming cam so the video and audio had to be dragged into the timeline of the desktop recording and then synched with the desktop audio - it all became a bit of a chore to be honest. But I know what you mean, and personally I'd rather have me on there as well. A small cam with streaming that is recorded by the compter capture software would be great but the budget won't stretch that far at the moment.
I like your style very much
Awesome video. Just found out about this program as I attempt to get moved over to linux as my main os. Cheers!
Cheers🍻
Thanks Andy. Great overview of this exciting new feature. If only I could find a digital asset manager that functions as well as Lightroom. It would be "ta ta Adobe!" 👍🏻
Cheers🍻😆
New to your channel looking forward to learning from you, Thanks
Thanks and welcome!
Outstanding, Andy -many thanks. I’m learning more and more about RT but sometimes are still struggling with the complexity. Would be great if you can give some start-to-finish tutorials with selected photos, e.g. from landscape shootings. Other observation: For my Nikon D3100 RAWs I see some strange colors (magenta color cast in highlights) after import, in contrast to Lightroom & C1P. Could it be that RT is not that good in handling files from certain camera models? Do I use wrong import settings?
Cheers🍻 If you send me a 3100 raw file that exhibits the problem I'll show you how to sort it out - just use 'wetransfer' to tuition@wildlifeinpixels.net
How glad am I that I signed up to your Patreon site and get your email notifications of these tutorials so I can watch on Patreon or here on TH-cam? Very Glad is the answer 👌👍😎. Unlike with the changes YT decided to implement with the other subscriptions and stop sending out those email notifications 😡
Very nicely presented demonstration of "things to come" in future models of RT Andy 👍 Looks very impressive - even with those (present?) limitations of the "delimiters". Agree with your observations (😎😉) about having multiple 'handles/points' to move would be beneficial. Certainly looking forward to your next demo with the landscape shot... shots? 👍
Cheers Frank 🍻🍻 I barely scratched the surface in this video though.
@@AndyAstbury I kind of got that impression 😉 I'm thinking it is safe to say that there are more strings to this program (v5.8) that have yet to be covered - never mind what is coming in the next version. Until our other conversation I had NO idea that you could upsize images very well with it... and as mentioned... may be that's *another* area to do a future tutorial on 😉
Nice one Andy, some of them sliders sure have complex names lol 😋
Cheers matey🍻🍻 Yeah, and then some 😆
Great stuff! Nice not to have to use multiple applications when my photos need local edits now that 5.9 is finally out for Mac
Glad it helped Nate, cheers 🍻
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Dear Andy, really thanks for your videos. When do you think that the RT 5.9 will be released?
You are most welcome Davide 🍻 I know the developers are trying to tidy things up in the software AND get the RawPedia entries up to date, but there are so few of them it's taking time, so in answer to your question I have to say that I imagine it's a few weeks away at best - they need a bigger team.
Andy are the new mask features documented yet...there are a lot of settings in there that impact the mask...it would be nice to get the technical info.....You do a great job of running through a topic.....
This is what's available so far Todd rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Local_controls - make of that what you will!
Hi Andy how are you? Do you have any approximate release date for the new version? Great video as always, I now use Rawtherapee for 100% of my work.
Hi - it's rumoured to be soon, but I'm really not privy to that info. But think about what I said in the video about running the development/nightly build - it's always up to date.
Suggestion for a video.
Lately there have been a lot of youtubers suggesting getting files into CMYK space before sending it to their inkjet printers. But others say leave that to the algorithms in your printer's driver. And some print shops express horror at the idea of anybody sending them files in CMYK, (since they might have different versions of CMYK) What's your take on this. Should we leave our printer-ready photos in an RGB color space like ProPhoto or convert them. Is this worth a video? A way to clarify this issue.
And, as if to muddy the waters more, some paint software meant for artists (like Krita, ChaSys Draw etc) seem to use CMYK as the main working color space.
Not seen any one suggest that myself Ray! How to confuse the f*** out of your printer driver - send it CMYK instead of the rgb it expects. And what conversion factor are they using? It's total BS would be my instant reaction. But send me link to a video that suggests it and we'll see.
Hi Andy, I am new to Rawtherapee and to your great tutorials. I have watched your two videos on Local Adjustments and they really helped me tremendously. I also looked at the RawPedia section on Local Adjustments and found it to be rather confusing. I tried to follow along with the step by step guide for their examples just to practice. I have a couple of questions. They are consistently saying to use the lockable color picker and select 3 or 4 different color but they never say why you should do it or what to use the information for. You didn't do this in either of your videos. The other question I have is a bit further down the page where they are changing the color of the green leaves. They say to use the a and b components of the "Lab" on the color correction grid. Then they have you move the two points on the grid to opposite corners for the color swap. I don't understand how to find the "a" and "b" components or how to move the central dot on the color grid (I thought it was fixed). I would appreciate your clarification on these items. I find RawPedia to be quite variable in terms of clarity and ease of understand. Thank you for your help and for all the videos you have on RawTherapee. I am a new subscriber also. Aaron
Hi Aaron - the colour pickers just give you an indication of how much your adjustments are changing the areas in the feathering area of the tool - so you might want to expand or contract that feathering; if you follow my meaning. Personally, I can't be bothered with them, and I just use my eyes!
BTW - "they" are just one person, Jaques Desmis, who is the main coder for most of the tools in RT. Super-nice guy, brilliant academic, but he loses me after about 30 seconds!
If you click on the white dot in the centre of the grid and drag it around, you'll see a line with the white dot at one end and a black dot at the other - you can click 'n drag that too.
But to be honest, I find no use for this function whatsoever. When it comes to that sort of thing, I prefer colour correction regions.
I found a link to the dev version in RawPedia and I downloaded it today. It came as a .zip file and could easily be unzipped in a folder and contains the local adjusment option. It works fine. No installer needed (I suppose).
Can you put up a link to the paga?
Does this spot can be drag?
What I mean is drag the spot over the area that I need to adjust locally,.
What if I couldnt resize the sopt to the size of the photo and what I need to do is only edit an small piece of the photo?
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Tried few versions of ART (1.9.4 latest it seems) and RT 5.8 and not having "local adjustment" icon there. Any tips? Thanks
Go to discuss.pixls.us/t/direct-download-links-to-the-latest-rawtherapee-development-version/29806 and download the latest dev build of Raw Therapee, which has all the goodies in it. Just choose the correct one for your system.
This looks a little - qua function - like a selection tool. I hope 5.9 will be launced shortly, but I doubt it. I have done some discussions about this on the internet, which didn't give me a very optimistic feeling about this. I sincerely hope I am very wrong.
finally, rawtherapee such a powerful editor, but it really missed this. only issue remaining you still need 15 minutes to edit a picture ^^
When you get familiar with RT things get faster 😀
@@AndyAstbury yes but I always feel there is something I did not explore in the software or used the way it is intended like the Retinex tool. But when I look at the manual I don't get a lot smarter either ^^ (I don't know the current status, it's some time since I tried)
@@Hannilux Your willingness to explore is the critical thing here, so I shall endeavour to do a video on it in the near future. In the meantime just take on board the fact that Retinex will drive you made if you deploy it on an image that doesn't need it!
@@AndyAstbury thanks for that. will keep my eyes open 😁
Nice tuto !
I don't have the hand Icon.. Does anyone know something about it ?
If you don't have the 'hand tool' then you do not have the dev build Raffael - local adjustments are only in the dev build.
as a windows user what file should i download form the github to get the option of local adjustment
thanks!
I have Raw Therapee 5.8 for Mac and don't see the Local Adjustment in the Editor tabs. Why is that ? :(
Look at the thumbnail - does it say 5.8, or 5.9 and the words RT DEV BUILD???????????????????????????????????????????????????
Local adjustment option is surely very appealing but...why I don't have it on my version of RT5.8....?!
Because they didn't exist when 5.8 was released!
@@AndyAstbury That would explain a lot...but seriously, I just downloaded the latest version. And isn't 5.8 what you are using too?
No - the video says Dev build right at the start. If you head to the RT Form discuss.pixls.us/c/software/rawtherapee/14 you will find threads linking various dev builds for different operating systems.
@@AndyAstbury I see! OK. Thanks.
omg ... that look, that voice, those gestures ... aren't you a hidden bro of my uncle :D ?? you are just like his (lost - not that's known he has some) twin ... Pilsen .cz based ... he's the son of 26th Inf. Div. member, born in 46 ..