7/26/2023 0 Comments Lightroom vs rawtherapee![]() Also, that’s why you’re getting different results with the flower and the noise - the noise threshold you’re not satisfied with here might be entirely OK for other, maybe more sharp, image. That’s why control of basic development available in RawTherapee and most FOSS is beneficial, because you can adjust the development pipeline for any given image. Also Lightroom’s processing is mostly profiled and comes mostly with no chance of fine-tuning. Lightroom tends to apply default processing that a user cannot control. Moreover, each image is unique, so some settings might work for this image, but would be useless for another. that is to say you’d never get the same image from either program. yeah, you can control some of those basic things in RawTherapee, but it uses it’s own algorithms. Lightroom tends to apply such things as basic sharpness, matrix color, etc automatically with no way to control them. It’s nice to see people once again, particularly Lightroom and RawTherapee use different image development methods and, they incorporate different approach to colors/hues/sharpness/lightness/demosaicing and white balance(pipeline) and even more. Thanks again for throwing in your take on the situation. I guess I should pick up a handbook and learn to actually code rather than complain. Also the Lightroom speciffic feature that allows to change the hue of Primary Red, Primary Green and Primary Blue would be hugely useful, since as we stand now, it would need to be done by carefully adding or subtracting values in RGB channels. Any attempt to mimic this and average out tone ranges to show as the same tone in RawTherapee just causes tons of noise in the transition area Would be nice if we had a solid algorithm to fight this for the HSL and HSV tools. This also makes skin tone editing easier I suppose, although most likely not accurate at all from a colour point of view. I find it interesting how Lightroom seems to group various colour hues together …for example, if you look at the image we are editing here: the yellow parts have quite the variety of lightness in them, especially on the top left side of the flower …whereas in Lightroom it’s all mostly the same shade and lightness of orange. I mean they only implemented colour curves in 2010? RawTherapee had them for quite a while …granted they probably sucked but still. To be honest overall I find Lightroom annoyingly restrictive. I doubt dating this girl would cause her to put the effort into learning the new interface I mean, I’m a pretty great guy, but not that great hahahaha. In a nutshell, here’s what I did: I wanted a bluer greens background, so I moved the white balance toward blue (screenshot 1), then compensated with curves (screenshot 3 ) and primary colours hues (screenshot thank you so much for the awesomely good laugh I’ve had reading this. The screenshots of how I did the Lightroom edit: The edit I ended up producing in Lightroom once I gave up trying to mimic. Here is the RAW file and the corresponding PP3 file. The original RawTherapee edit which I tried to mimic in Lightroom. And please don’t be too frustrated if my question is stupid or obvious I know it’s a lot of work and few of you might care about this as much as I do so any effort is greatly appreciated. So basically, if anyone more skilled than me can figure out where the discrepancy is and perhaps how to translate this look into the more capable RawTherapee, I’d love to know how. The yellow of the flower became more of an orange in Lightroom, I believe due to the modification of the primary red but I can’t seem to find a way to do that in RawTherapee without affecting the rest way too much. ![]() Now I understand two software can employ different algorithms but shouldn’t the two do the same thing really? They seem to act a little different between Lightroom and Rawtherapee. The white balance seems to be affected by the RGB channels in RawTherapee whereas not so much in Lightroom. Rawtherapee has the channels, while Lightroom as the primaries. RGB channels versus Primary Red, Green, Blue I’ll list a few notes I took from the process and perhaps we can figure out the reason behind some of what I find the biggest differences between the two software.ġ. ![]() I don’t think I got anywhere close, but I produced an edit in there which I liked and now am struggling to make it happen in Rawtherapee. ![]() Many things I can do in RawTherapee are simply missing. I decided to go with it and see if I could get anywhere close in Lightroom. Problem was she uses Lightroom exclusively since she got used to the interface (worst excuse ever ) so me explaining it in Rawtherapee wouldn’t have done much good. I edited them and it really impressed my friend Ashley, so I offered to show her how I did them. So it all started with me playing with some images from a while back in Rawtherapee. ![]()
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