
Also mouse middle-click for zoom-in, and again for over-zoom, is something where you need to read the manual. At first, I felt that many controls were in an unexpected place, e.g. I feel once you get used to Darktable, it will be great. Color balance may be harder because RT offers many ways to control it.ĭarktable's controls seem fairly intuitive to me, and the default is a decent starting point which makes learning easier (though it doesn't affect the ultimate capability for a skillful user to get results). RawTherapee noise reduction choices are particularly complete and fast-acting. Either is more than adequate, but if you get pixel shift soon, rawtherapee seems to have the best support right now. A perfect free and open raw editor would look like this: The power of Darktable combined with the menu structure of RawTherapee. Rawtherapee works better for me for digital, and Darktable gives me better results with scanned film. Shadow recovery is easy even in JPEG highlight recovery is probably good in all Raw processors. Right now I’m using Darktable, Rawtherapee and Gimp, on Linux and Windows. It's really easy to do all this stuff in RawTherapee. Noise reduction while retaining sharpness.There are three areas where a Raw processor can be very useful: Maybe RawTherapee improved a lot in version 5.4, because it seems quite easy to use now. Others will have more recent knowledge than I, and I'm not motivated to do anything difficult since I have very good Windows raw processing already. I recall finding that it offered a large number of processing choices, but I thought it was complex to use.


This application also provides a comprehensive set. It's been quite a while since I tried RT. Darktable is similar to RawTherapee but it is only available for Mac and Linux operating systems.
