![]() ![]() If you compare an ISO 3200 no noise reduction jpeg out of the camera to a jpeg out of the DNG file through RawTherapee, you will think that the out of the camera jpeg looks like a shot out of a cartoon. However, starting at ISO 800 & above, you do get way more detail out of the DNG file. You can still get a tad bit more detail from the DNG file than the jpeg, but it's not by a tremendous amount. Unless I really want to tweak the photo, I don't really bother processing those ISOs in RawTherapee. I haven't really pushed it to ISO 12800.Īfter toying around with DNGs in RawTherapee for the past year or so, I have come to the conclusion that ISO 100 to ISO 400 jpegs without noise reduction from the camera are very good. You get some very pleasant looking grain from ISO 800 to ISO 3200. When you process a jpeg out of them, you will get a jpeg that has similar color to the "Natural" setting on the camera. These are starting points that give you the most detail, while reducing most of the noise. These are profiles that I have spent about a year randomly tweaking. My guess is that they will also work well with the K-5, K-5II, & K-5IIs. These are for the K-50 & K-30, since the sensors are virtually the same. Post added 05-11-15 at 11:13 AM -įor those of you that like using RawTherapee, I have uploaded a profile for ISO 800, ISO 1600, ISO 3200, & ISO 6400. Also I have some Topaz plugins that work with Paint Shop Pro and Elements but not Gimp. I'd love to use Gimp, but I've found its lack of 16 bit per channel support to be limiting, especially if you work with quite a few layers and gradients, particularly gradients as it can produce nasty banding. It lacks decent raw import, can be slow, and the clone/healing tool is not as good as Elements, but in pretty much everything else it offers far more functionality, at least compared to the version of Elements I've got, and it was dirt cheap. It's somewhat intermediate between Elements and Photoshop, but priced like Elements or cheaper. I've got Paint Shop Pro X6, but haven't tried it in conjunction with Raw Therapee.Thanks for those suggestions, I'll give them a try.Īs far as Paint Shop Pro X6 is concerned, it will work fine with tiff files exported from Raw Therapee. This seems to be working for me, at least for the dozen or so images I've tried. I've set the Default Processing Profile to Neutral in Preferences and use the Natural 1 or Natural 2 profile after opening an image in the Editor Module. I've tried a number of the Bundled Profiles, and seem to have settled on using Generic - Natural 1 or Natural 2 as a processing profile starting point. I've got Paint Shop Pro X6, but haven't tried it in conjunction with Raw Therapee. I'd really like to make Raw Therapee work though, if for nothing more than to see the smug Photoshop/Lightroom folk get a surprise if I can produce similar results with a free program.I'm using Lightroom 4 and thinking about upgrading to LR 6, but in the mean time I've been fooling around with Raw Therapee. The RAW processor in Photoshop Elements works much better, but Elements doesn't support layers with 16 bits per channel, and Paint Shop Pro that I also have does have full 16 bit per channel support, but its RAW converter is terribly basic, so I decided to give Raw Therapee a go, although given all the mucking about I'm almost wondering whether I should have paid up for a Photoshop/Lightroom subscription. ![]() Mostly I'm wanting to adjust lighting, but the built in profiles don't seem to produce anything that looks anything like the colour that comes off the camera. My biggest struggle with Raw Therapee has been getting colour more or less as captured for a starting point. ![]()
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