Repository
Introduction
I really like photography and I like to learn about photography. Even photography has become a part of my life. A few years ago, photography was very helpful in my career. Thanks to photography, I was able to graduate from college. Several years ago, I came from a remote village trying to find a bachelor's degree in the city. And I come from a simple family, my parents' allowance for tuition fees is very limited. At that time, I began to think about how I could get income to meet my college needs.
At that time, I tried to become a photographer in a studio near my campus to fill in the free time of college. At that time I tried to learn how to edit photos first so that I was accepted, it didn't take long for me to learn photo editing in Photoshop. Within 3 weeks I was able to master all the basic knowledge of editing photos from Youtube. And at that time I began to believe that photography had become my fashion.
If you want to learn the world of photography, the science of editing is needed to support the perfection of your photography. In photography we are not only required to learn how to take photos well, but we are also required to learn how to process or edit these photo to make them look more attractive and good.
Basically to learn photo editing for example in Photoshop is not easy. In editing or design we cannot just rely on tutorials, but we are required to use our own instincts and ideas in processing projects. As a photo editor we have to think hard to edit photos according to the concept that is needed later. We have to know how to apply editing according to the type of photo we are going to edit.
But now for those of you beginners who are having a hard time learning photos editing in Photoshop there is no need to worry, there are so many alternative software besides Photoshop available. One of the alternative photo editing software for beginners is RawTherapee.
What is a RawTherapee?
RawTherapee is an editing software that is intended for the world of photography. RawTherapee is designed as a tool to manage, process and edit digital photos on your computer.
RawTherapee is not the same as Photoshop editing software, if Photoshop is a program for graphic editing and is also commonly used to retouch photos and create manipulation effects, while RawTherapee is used more to retouch photos and color effect games with more variations.
RawTherapee is not a new photo editing software, RawTherapee has been released in 2009. Maybe from a glance you will think that RawTherapee is very similar to Adobe Lightroom. Indeed, in terms of appearance and function RawTherapee is very similar to Adobe Lightroom, but the big difference between the two is that you can download RawTherapee for free.
There is something interesting about RawTherapee in my opinion is the editing process that is non-destructive. The point is that all changes that occur when editing do not affect the original photo. Moreover, if the photo you are editing is a RAW photo, all original information about the photo will still be stored.
What you will find on RawTherapee?
RawTherapee is a photo editing software that is suitable for beginners who want to learn photo editing. But not only beginners, many editor masters use RawTherapee to retouch photos and color settings on photos. And I have used RawTherapee myself for a long time. Because its use is so easy to make me comfortable using it until now.
The strategic feature location and features available are clearly displayed, making beginners who want to learn editing easily understand. You can see that feature directly displayed in RawTherapee such as Exposure, Contrast, Saturation, Tone Maping, Image Adjustments, and many more.
Available for all operating systems
You don't need to worry if you want to install RawTherapee, because RawTherapee provides so many types of versions and also supports all operating systems (Windows, Linux and MacOS). And you can download it for free on the RawTherapee official website.
Non-destructive Editing
RawTherapee will record or record all the steps you took in editing the image. This is useful if it turns out that later your edits are not satisfied, you can go back to the previous steps. And what's even more interesting is that you don't have to worry about editing in RawTherapee, because the editing process done won't damage the original file.
High Resolution Photo Editing
RawTherapee is designed to edit high-resolution RAW files. usually files like RAW are large, which are generally heavy to be opened by photo editing applications, RawTherapee is able to open and process it good. So this is one of the advantages of RawTherapee which is capable of being used to handle high resolution RAW files and generally has a large enough size of file capacity.
Color editing is very complete
This is also one of the advantages of RawTherapee because it offers HSL setting features (Hue, Saturation and Luminance). In addition, RawTherapee also provides functions to edit White Balence, Tonal, Lens Correction, Presence, Microcontrast, Raw White and Black Point and much more. Compared to software photoshop must use additional plugins to get the White Balance settings feature like that.
Mode Split (Toggle The Before/After View)
In RawTherapee you will find the "Split Mode" feature which allows you to see changes in a single photo and you can easily display the separator page to compare photos before and after editing.
Photo Management Application
One of the functions of RawTherapee is to do photo management, with RawTherapee you can edit, move, paste, delete, index and organize all your collection photos on the PC directly from the RawTherapee application. And of course when you want to choose a photo in a large stack of files, you can choose it easily.
More efficient, saving time and effort
When we do photo hunting like at a wedding party, or at an event, we usually take quite a large number of photos, even up to tens. therefore, for photographers, editing software that can edit photos quickly is needed. By using RawTherapee, we don't have to bother opening lots of photos and editing one by one, we can monitor multiple photos at once, choose and edit them in RawTherapee.
Conclusion
RawTherapee is a photo editing software that is suitable for beginners who want to learn photo editing because the features provided are easily accessible and understood. And also, RawTherapee is perfect for those of you who want to edit photos quickly and easily but provide very good edits.
You don't need to worry about using RawTherapee, because you can download RawTherapee for free on their official website. Unlike other professional editing software, you have to spend money to get the software.
Download RawTherapee
Resources
All contents of this post are written by myself based on knowledge, experience, and personal use on RawTherapee.
And most of the images and and screen recordings (Gif) are edited and captured from my own device.