Status report of RawTherapee 2.4 milestone 2

July 16, 2008

One important goal of the RT DevTeam is to inform you about what's going on behind the scenes. This time we can't offer any downloads, but some information about the progression. Please let us emphasize: no downloads this time, "only" great news!
Milestones are "development snapshots", parts of longer and greater improvements. However, the second milestone towards RawTherapee 2.4 offers so much that it's development lasts longer then originally planned.

The brief - and incomprehensive - list of features, changes, fixes:

Caching of thumbnails: The file browser is faster than ever, gives an excellent user experience.
Ranking in file browser: 1 star... 2 star... up to 5, happy time. Rank your files and browse them by these ranks.
Filter by EXIF: Search and filter your images by their EXIF data. Various fields can be set to narrow the list of hits.
Move to trash / delete permanently / rename functionality in file browser: Basic file operations are requested a lot, so here they come!
File monitoring: RawTherapee watches you... if files are deleted/renamed in the file system, RT synchronises them with its database.
Separating the core and the GUI: Sometimes it happens that big changes can't even be noticed. This one won't show you itself, but will influence the future a lot.
Fixes: Several bugfixes (for example: spot WB, 16 bit TIFF output, etc...).

As you may noticed the file browser has improved spectacularly, while the core+GUI separation needs a lot of time without producing any visible changes. To release the second milestone all the major and minor changes has to be polished and tested.

The main goal of final 2.4 stable is batch conversion. All the current improvements are aiming that final goal, but please remember: batch conversion comes only with final 2.4 release when every code requirement is fulfilled.

Meanwhile, for milestone 2 it's impossible to promise any release date, but it is under heavy
development and... well, and works, looks and feels better then ever!

dualon,

RT DevTeam

Towards RawTherapee v2.4 - The First Milestone

April 23, 2008

First of all thank you for the feedback and bug reports, RT is improved with every little piece of information. The RT DevTeam would like to encourage everyone: help us this way in the future, too. Our forum is open to all of you!

The development of RawTherapee v2.4 has reached the first milestone. The features below are implemented already:

Full EXIF support: The long-waited feature is here, RawTherapee is able to import EXIF data from RAWs and export to the output image formats, including TIFF. RT supports Makernotes, and standards compliance is improved.
EXIF Browser: Browse, edit, delete the original EXIF tags. The possibility to record additional tags (like author, copyright and comment) is also available.
IPTC tag support
More input ICC profile options
A new highlight recovery method ("CIELab Blending"), that promises better recovery of color information
Histogram now corresponds to cropped area
Runtime theme switching: The look ("skin") of RT can be changed, and you don't even need to restart the program. RT will be packed with new themes, too.
Lots of other minor (and not-so-minor) tweaks: bugfixes, eye-candy, some new GUI icons, performance improvements, etc...

Good work needs time, so we don't want to stick to any deadline, but the next version is released soon. Stay tuned!

dualon

RawTherapee V2.3 released

February 12, 2008

We are proud to present RawTherapee version 2.3!

Changelog:

Image resizing tool
Vignetting correction tool
Local contrast enhancement tool
Auto Crop and Fill option in the rotation tool
Multi-language support (already included in package: English, German, Hungarian, Latvian, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak)
Channel mixer
Deconvolution based sharpening
VNG-4 interpolation of dcraw to reduce maze on Olympus raw images
Selectable guide lines when cropping
Enhanced auto and spot white balance
Support for new cameras (DCRaw 8.82/1.398)
Windows Vista support