RawTherapee Changelog

What's new in RawTherapee 5.7

Sep 13, 2019
  • Film Negative tool, for easily developing raw photographs of film negatives.
  • Support for reading “rating” tags from Exif and XMP, shown in the File Browser/Filmstrip using RawTherapee’s star rating system.
  • Hundreds of bug fixes, speed optimizations and raw format support improvements.

New in RawTherapee 5.6 (Apr 23, 2019)

  • Pseudo-HiDPI support, for a smooth and sharp user interface regardless of screen size. Pseudo-HiDPI mode is disabled by default, enable it in Preferences > General > Appearance. Scaling in RawTherapee depends on font size, DPI and display scaling. While scaling has been tested to work well in Windows, Linux and macOS, there are some macOS display modes which are incompatible with it, specifically those modes suffixed by "(HiDPI)" in macOS Display settings. Some versions of macOS (10.14.*) seem to not list any modes, in which case the user must just give it a try.
  • Ability to move tools to a new Favorites tab.
  • "Unclipped" processing profile, to make it easy to save an image while preserving data across the whole tonal range.
  • User-adjustable tiles-per-thread settings in Preferences > Performance, for users who want to find optimal values for their system. The default value of 2 tiles-per-thread performs best overall.
  • Hundreds of speed optimizations, bug fixes, and overall improvements.

New in RawTherapee 5.5 (Dec 18, 2018)

  • Filter to remove striping artifacts caused by Phase Detection Auto Focus (PDAF) as seen in Sony cameras, and to remove banding artifacts caused by Nikon's too-aggressive in-camera PDAF correction.
  • These are available for any camera which has a PDAF entry in camconst.json, currently:
  • Nikon Z 6
  • Nikon Z 7
  • Sony DSC-RX1RM2
  • Sony ILCE-6000
  • Sony ILCE-6300
  • Sony ILCE-6500
  • Sony ILCE-7M3
  • Sony ILCE-7RM2
  • Sony ILCE-7RM3
  • Sony ILCE-9
  • Ability to specify custom working color spaces through the workingspaces.json file.
  • Unbounded processing - allows you to decide whether out-of-gamut colors should get clipped.
  • Improved support for Canon mRaw format variants.
  • New Shadows/Highlights tool (replaced previous one).
  • Contrast threshold mask which divides an image into areas of high and low detail, allowing the effect of certain tools to be focused where it matters most and to mitigate the effect on areas where it would be undesirable, for example having the Sharpening tool affect only the in-focus subject without affecting the out-of-focus background.
  • Available for:
  • Sharpening
  • Post-Resize Sharpening
  • Microcontrast
  • Dual-demosaic algorithms, making use of the new contrast threshold mask, allowing one to use a combination of demosaicing algorithms where one is best for details and the other best for plain areas.
  • New color toning methods:
  • Grid, allowing you to separately tone the shadows and highlights using two points on a simple color grid.
  • Regions, allowing you to tone based on any number of masks. Supports functions from the American Society of Cinematographers Color Decision List (ASC CDL).
  • Demosaicing
  • Resizable main histogram with scaling modes:
  • Linear
  • Log
  • Log-Log
  • The log scales can be adjusted by click-dragging the mouse sideways inside the histogram area.
  • Support for Blackmagic and Canon Magic Lantern lj92 encoded files.
  • Allows you to specify how many border rows/columns to discard during demosaicing - those who shoot raw video at a standard resolution such as 1920x1080 will appreciate being able to preserve the dimensions.
  • New Soft Light tool which enhances contrast and saturation by emulating the effect of blending an image with a copy of itself in "soft light" blending mode in GIMP.
  • The Resize tool allows you to specify whether you want it to upscale or only downscale.
  • New icon and cursor theme.
  • ICC
  • The bundled ICC profiles have been re-generated, and now include ICC v2 and v4 variants.
  • If your screen's resolution is such that not all icons fit in a toolbar, you can now scroll the toolbar using the mouse scroll-wheel.
  • New "Flexible" tone curve type. A characteristic of the cubic spline curve (renamed from "Custom" to "Standard") is that editing one node could have a huge impact on what happens to the curve in relation to the other nodes. The new "Flexible" centripetal Catmull–Rom spline curve allows you to make adjustments to any part of the curve with little impact on the other parts.
  • Allow saving both floating-point and integer type files at both 16-bit and 32-bit precision from RawTherapee GUI and CLI.
  • Improved lensfun chromatic aberration correction.
  • The raw chromatic aberration correction tool can now run in several iterations, and gained a feature to avoid introducing a color shift which could result from correcting chromatic aberration before demosaicing.
  • Certain sliders now operate on a logarithmic scale, allowing for a meaningful response over large ranges.
  • Dedicated "Reset" button in Crop tool.
  • Support for new cameras, and new input color profiles.
  • Speed enhancements and bug fixes, for a total of over 1300 commits.

New in RawTherapee 4.2 (Oct 24, 2014)

  • RawTherapee-4.2 includes many speed, precision, stability and memory usage optimizations. As such, users of 32-bit operating systems may now find that they can enjoy more stability while using the most memory intensive tools. Of course users of 64-bit systems benefit from this as well. Refer to the full changelog for more information.
  • Powerful color toning tool.
  • Curve control of luminance noise reduction.
  • Median filter in the noise reduction tool.
  • Film simulation tool using Hald CLUT pattern files.
  • Command-line option to define bit depth of output TIFF/PNG file.
  • Multiple improvements to dead/hot pixel handling, see RawPedia.
  • Filename of currently opened image shown in the titlebar.
  • Clip control for the flat-field correction tool.
  • Demosaic method "Mono" for monochrome cameras, and "None" for no demosaicing.
  • Copy/paste processing profile keyboard shortcuts for right-handed users using Ctrl/Shift-Insert.
  • Update to dcraw 9.22 1.467
  • New or improved support for:
  • Canon EOS 7D
  • Canon EOS 7D Mark II
  • Canon PowerShot G7 X
  • Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
  • Fujifilm cameras using the X-Trans sensor
  • Fujifilm X30
  • Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Hasselblad H4D-50
  • Hasselblad H4D-60
  • Hasselblad H5D-40
  • Hasselblad H5D-50c
  • Mamiya Leaf Credo 40
  • Mamiya Leaf Credo 50
  • Mamiya Leaf Credo 60
  • Mamiya Leaf Credo 80
  • Monochrome cameras such as Leica Monochrome
  • Nikon D610
  • Nikon D700
  • Nikon D750
  • Nikon D800E
  • Nikon D810
  • Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000
  • Panasonic Lumix DMC-GM5
  • Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX100
  • Phase One IQ250
  • Phase One P40
  • Phase One P65+
  • Sony Alpha ILCE-5100
  • Sony NEX-C3

New in RawTherapee 4.1 (May 21, 2014)

  • Pipette tool for curves.
  • Support for floating-point HDR raw DNG images.
  • Enhanced look for all tools (panel background).
  • Enhanced look for crop guides, zoom guides, straightening line, Navigator panel and detail windows.
  • Enhanced focus mask.
  • Skin-tones targetting for Contrast by Detail Levels tool.
  • "None" demosaicing method to show the raw image without demosaicing.
  • New algorithm for orange, yellow, cyan, purple and magenta in the Black-and-White tool.
  • Set the cache and config paths using environment variables.
  • JPEG subsampling parameter in the command-line interface.
  • The opened/closed state of the left and right panels of the File Browser tab is now remembered between sessions.
  • RawTherapee's window size and position are remembered between sessions.
  • When cropping, click anywhere without dragging to clear crop.
  • Added 'no wait' option (-w) for command-line (Windows only).
  • dcraw 9.20 Revision: 1.461.
  • New or improved support for:
  • Canon EOS 5D Mark II
  • Canon EOS 5D Mark III
  • Canon EOS 6D
  • Canon EOS 40D
  • Canon EOS 50D
  • Canon EOS 60D
  • Canon EOS 70D
  • Canon EOS 600D/Rebel T3i/Kiss X5
  • Canon EOS 650D/Rebel T4i/Kiss X6i
  • Canon EOS 1200D/Rebel T5/Kiss X70
  • Canon EOS-M
  • Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II
  • Canon PowerShot S120
  • Fujifilm S1
  • Hasselblad CFV-50
  • Nikon 1 V3
  • Nikon D4s
  • Nikon D3300
  • Nikon D5300
  • Nikon D7000
  • Olympus E-M10
  • Olympus E-PM2
  • Panasonic DMC-GH3
  • Panasonic DMC-GH4
  • Panasonic DMC-GM1
  • Panasonic DMC-GX7
  • Panasonic DMC-LF1
  • Panasonic DMC-ZS40/Panasonic DMC-TZ60
  • Panasonic DMC-ZS41/Panasonic DMC-TZ61
  • Pentax K10D
  • Pentax K-3
  • Phase One IQ180/IQ280
  • Phase One IQ260
  • Phase One IQ260
  • Phase One P20/P20+
  • Phase One P21/P21+
  • Phase One P25/P25+
  • Phase One P30/P30+
  • Phase One P40+/IQ140
  • Phase One P45/P45+
  • Phase One P65+/IQ160
  • Samsung NX30
  • Sony ILCE-7R
  • Sony ILCE-3000
  • Sony ILCE-5000
  • Sony ILCE-6000
  • Sony NEX-5N
  • Sony SLT-A77
  • Sony SLT-A99/Sony SLT-A99V

New in RawTherapee 4.0.12 (Jan 14, 2014)

  • Graduated Filter
  • Post-crop Vignette Filter
  • Powerful Black-and-White tool
  • New curves:
  • Luminance according to hue (LH)
  • Chromaticity according to hue (CH)
  • Hue according to hue (HH)
  • Chromaticity according to luminance (CL)
  • Contrast by Detail Levels tool (wavelet decompose) now has 5 levels
  • Auto Levels improved
  • Image dimensions added to (i) info
  • White Balance slider non-linear for easier control of low and high values
  • Noise Reduction tool allows targetting of specific colors (e.g. remove yellow blotches)
  • Pre-demosaic automatic removal of chromatic aberration improved
  • New output queue template variables %s(0-9)
  • New File Browser shortcuts, revision of existing shortcuts (refer to RawPedia)
  • New Custom Profile Builder parameters
  • Bundled and user profiles in separate submenus
  • camconst.json for immediate addition or correction of raw file format support
  • White and black levels
  • Color matrix
  • Crop coordinates
  • dcraw 9.19
  • The main histogram now shows color levels using the Output Profile
  • Enhanced lens info and filter possibilities for manual Nikon lenses
  • Added support for
  • Kodak DCS 760 and 760s
  • Various medium-format backs
  • New DCP profiles for
  • Canon PowerShot S110
  • Fujifilm FinePix S9500
  • Pentax K-5
  • Pentax K-5 II
  • Pentax K-r
  • Support for Capture One ICC profiles
  • All Bundled Processing Profiles (PP3) revised
  • + Very significant speed improvements and bug fixes.