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Try your hand at developing a raw image by taking part in the latest edition of our competition, PLAY RAW 46! This round's image is from DrSlony and it is a high dynamic range DNG of a sunrise near Söderåsen National Park in the south of Sweden.

RawTherapee 4.2 is out, and if you're not using it in 5 minutes then you're not one of the cool kids.

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Dear package maintainers! We will be releasing RawTherapee-4.2 this Friday, 2014-10-24. Please take a minute to read this announcement....

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Try your hand at developing a raw image by taking part in the latest edition of our competition, PLAY RAW 44! This round's image is from siganmelostontos and it is an in-camera double exposure.

Try your hand at developing a raw image by taking part in the latest edition of our competition, PLAY RAW 43! This round's image is from TooWaBoo.

Try your hand at developing a raw image by taking part in the latest edition of our competition, PLAY RAW 42! This round's image is from myself, DrSlony, and it's a macro of a tiny flower which, hanging upside-down from the plant together with 18 other flowers just like it in a bunch, produces a drop of sticky liquid every morning to, I presume, lure pollinating insects in. Can you identify the genus or species?

Spring is here (or autumn, for those on the other side of the planet), and it's a fantastic time to capture nature in its fresh, luminescent-green light (or that intense, golden-red autumn light!), and how better to develop your raw photos than with RawTherapee 4.1-stable!

YES! It's been a long journey since the last version we officially called stable, version 3.1. A few years have passed, many new tools and features have been added, a million little bugs were squashed, and now it has arrived!

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It's been four years and counting that we've been doing a ~monthly competition where the winner of the previous round gets to send in an interesting raw file and everyone is invited to stretch their creative ligaments and do anything possible, as long as it's with RawTherapee, to develop it. This round's image is from FredDec, and it's a great scene of the Bardenas Reales Desert in Spain, taken at dawn.

Dear photographers, hobbyists and package maintainers,...

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The download link for the 4.0.12 build of RawTherapee for Windows and the 4.0.12 PDF have been fixed.

RawTherapee 4.0.12 is out!

Develop your New Year's shots with RawTherapee version 4.0.12! There are many new tools to discover and a whole bunch of speed improvements and bug fixes. There are also changes for builders and package maintainers, so be sure to read the article!

Builds should be ready within a day or two. Once they are, get them from the Downloads section or using your operating system's package manager.

We now host our own source code tarballs, get them from rawtherapee.com/shared/source

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We will shortly be moving to a new server which may result in temporary downtime. If the website and forum do not work, simply come back a few hours later, by when the migration should be completed.

RawTherapee flourishes thanks to the hard work of the people who continue to push their boundaries and to spend their free time creatively and actively contributing to a wonderful global effort. You too can join us and help make RawTherapee better while gaining experience and learning from others. Please take a look at the list below which details areas where we need help, and see if you could lend a hand!
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For a complete and up-to-date list of features, see the RawPedia Features page.

High Image Quality

• 96-bit (floating point) processing engine.
• Non-destructive editing.
  
• Get the most details and least artifacts from your raw photos thanks to modern and traditional demosaicing algorithms: AMaZE, DCB, AHD, EAHD, HPHD, IGV, LMMSE, VNG4, Mono and Fast.
• Advanced color handling from white balance to HSV (Hue-Saturation-Value) curves, color toning and color management.
• Powerful CIE Color Appearance Model 2002 (CIECAM02) module.
  
• Enhanced exposure and tonality tools: tone and Lab curves, highlights and shadows tools, tone mapping (HDR-like effect), etc.
• Multiple denoising methods: luminance, chrominance (both rewritten in 2012), impulse (for salt and pepper noise) noise reduction.
• Several tools to enhance details: unsharp mask, RL deconvolution, contrast by detail levels.

Efficiency

• Multi-threaded algorithms for high performance (RawTherapee can utilize modern processor features, like SSE).
• Quick thumbnails load lightning fast and are replaced later with live thumbnails.
• Batch processing: convert all the developed images at once without loading the processor while you work.
• Copy/paste editing parameters from one file to many other. Partially copying and/or pasting is also possible.
  
• Basic tools immediately at your hands.
• Parallel editing of multiple images in separate editor tabs, and/or all at once from the file browser.
• An optional secondary display can be used.

Versatility

• Wide variety of supported cameras: almost all DSLRs and even some medium format bodies are supported.
• Can load most raw files including 16-, 24- and 32-bit raw HDR DNG images, as well as standard JPEG, PNG (8- and 16-bit) and TIFF (8-, 16- and 32-bit logluv) images.
• Can save JPEG, PNG (8- and 16-bit) and TIFF (8- and 16-bit) images.
• Advanced control over the algorithms with many fine-tuning parameters and curves.
  
• Can send to GIMP or the editing tool of your choice in one click (16-bit TIFF file).
  
• Command line usage besides the normal graphical interface.
  
• Various layouts: multiple tabs, single tab with filmstrip, vertical tab with filmstrip, dual monitor.

Freedom for Free

• RawTherapee is free and open source software, meaning you can use it free of charge, wherever you like on whatever hardware you like, as long as you abide by the copyleft GPLv3 license. Download the source code, modify it, feel free to do what comes to mind. We believe in open software.
• It is cross-platform: Linux, Mac, or Windows, be it 32-bit or 64-bit - you pick, we provide.
• International: it is available in 25 languages!

RawTherapee 4.0.11 is out!

4.0.11 includes a number of new features which you can read about below, but just as importantly it contains a large number of speed improvements and bug fixes, so we recommend you update straight away! Builds should be ready within a day or two. Once they are, get them from the Downloads section or using your operating system's package manager.

The source code tarball is available from our Google Code page.

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RawTherapee 4.0.10 is out!

It's been months of hard work, and along the way we made some new friends who helped make RawTherapee better. Builds should be ready within a day or two. Once they are, get them from the Downloads section or using your operating system's package manager.

The source code tarball is available from our Google Code page.

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After many months of hard work, we will be releasing RawTherapee 4.0.10 in a few days - it is faster, more stable, has a bunch of new features, and is generally better than any other version, so stay tuned! We have also updated the Documentation and Screenshots pages, with further updates coming to the other sections soon.