RawTherapee version 2.4.1 was released on the 3rd of September, 2009. Then on the 4th of January, 2010, Gabor Horvath made RawTherapee open source. Since then, a team of developers and contributors from around the world have been busy working towards what we are proud to present to you today!
What’s new in RawTherapee-3.0.0
- A new and powerful hue, saturation and value manipulation tool,
- Speed and quality improvements to all the tools available,
- More keyboard shortcuts,
- New dual-monitor interface layout,
- Automatic and manual chromatic aberration removal tools for pre and post-demosaicing,
- Purple fringe removal tool,
- Cosmetic interface improvements for low resolution displays,
- Possibility to ignore a photo’s color profile,
- Auto white balance improved to ignore overexposed areas,
- Preference to overwrite existing output file or write the new one under a different name if one already exists,
- Ability to change the cropped off area’s opacity and color,
- Thumbnail quality improved,
- Thumbnail loading speed improved,
- In single tab mode, the file browser follows the currently open photo in the editor tab,
- New preview size button: “fit”
- International character support in filenames and metadata,
- Hot and dead pixel correction filter,
- Dark frame subtraction,
- Autoexposure behaviour corrected in relation to highlight reconstruction,
- Highlight recovery amount and threshold sliders,
- Exposure slider range increased,
- Ability to save a 16 bit TIFF image for color profiling,
- Interface enhancement: right-clicking over a section title expands that section and hides the others,
- Shadow and highlight clipping indicators use luminance instead of R, G or B channel values,
- High quality shadows/highlights filter has been sped up,
- New crop ratios,
- Ability to resize the photo to fit within a “bounding box”,
- The non-100% preview image of the photo in the editor has been made smoother and gamma-corrected,
- Version number displayed in title bar,
- The batch queue is automatically saved in case of a crash,
- Details of the RawTherapee version as well as the build environment are available if you click on Preferences > About > Version. Copy and paste this whole chunk of text whenever reporting a bug.
- GUI element placement improved,
- Fluid GUI elements scale better,
- Dcraw updated,
- EXIF updates,
- Translations updated,
- Fast file access with memory mapped files
- Default compilation type: release
- New user interface themes,
- User interface made nicer, especially in Windows (clearlooks),
- User interface icons updated,
- Ability to apply only parts of a profile
- More keyboard shortcuts
- New colors themes
- New PP3 profiles
- Open multiple images at once (when using multiple tabs mode)
- Numerous memory leaks plugged,
- Numerous speed & stability improvements.
In addition to these changes and new features, the documentation for RawTherapee-3.0 was written up, and our website was rewritten from scratch. Read the manual by following the “Documentation” link at the top of this site.