Raw Therapee WAVELETS Basics: Power Processing with Wavelets in Raw Therapee 5.8

[@HarryMarkov]

A hudge amount of helpfull information concerning subtle elements of image processing. Thank you Andy!

[@AndyAstbury]

Glad you enjoyed it Harry, and many thanks for saying so 🍻😆

[@JohnSchairer]

This video is fantastically helpful. Thank you!

[@AndyAstbury]

Glad it was helpful!🍻

[@stefanorugolo]

Very very very good, interesting and instructive. Thank you a lot Sir!

[@AndyAstbury]

You are very welcome 🍻

[@jhmnieuwenhuis]

Thanks for another great video. As soon as i found all the pieces of my blown mind and put them together again i am sure i am beginning to grasp what wavelets can do !! I will watch it a second and maybe third time. I would never have been able to understand it from just reading the explanation on rawpedia or wikipedia.

[@AndyAstbury]

I tried that myself Hans, and failed! It took a 1on1 dissertation from Xavier for me to understand it.

[@jhmnieuwenhuis]

I noticed that for me it works best to first only watch the video and not work along with you. Then watch it a second time and work along. I do this for the more complex stuff

[@kapiljoshey8989]

Hello Mr. Astbury! Just dropping in to say that this video is absolutely phenomenal. I'm starting out with photography, currently own a used Nikon D5100. As costs are a major concern for me, I'm exclusively using RawTherapee and Darktable in my workflow (dabbled with Darktable only to go back sprinting to RawTherapee, DT just didnt seem intuitive enough, although I'm sure it's only a matter of practicing more!). Just applied the learnings from this video and the Denoise and Refine video to a portrait I shot during the night at ISO2000. I live in an apartment on the fifth floor and my jaw dropped as far down as the ground floor when i looked at the final output! Thank you for documenting RawTherapee with such detail and rigor!

[@AndyAstbury]

Thank you 👍🍻

[@ricardozettl6713]

Finally, after 10 month, I had time to go through your video and finally I got a first idea of how that wavelets work. Thank you very much, Andy. I can't keep up with the Rhythmus you produce these RawTherapee Tutorials, but I have them all in my to do list. For me RawTherapee is the one tool to work through a 1.000 to 1.500 pictures I take in a single event. And with RawTherapee I'm done, I don't have the time to process 1.000 pictures from a 5 hour event in Photoshop. RawTherapee allows me to work very efficient through this amount of pictures. Interestingly this is a point nobody mentions about RawTherapee.

[@AndyAstbury]

Thank you Ricardo - you will get through them in your own time 👍

[@numbersix8919]

Gosh! This was awfully helpful! Thank you very much! (Sorry I've come to it a bit late.)

[@AndyAstbury]

No worries - glad you liked it!

[@carlosquinteromoratilla5220]

Again thank you very much for your video...You make all this diffcult concepts looks easy!!!

[@AndyAstbury]

Thank you Carlos 🍻🍻

[@silviogrosso7780]

Hello Andy, Thanks a lot for this new tutorial. It is has been a real pleasure to watch it while also appreciating a lot your English humour :-) Please, keep you video on RawTherapee coming.

[@AndyAstbury]

You're very welcome Silvio 🍻🍻

[@FrankEtchells]

Congratulations 'Prof' (for getting a mention in the *Credits*) 😉😎 🍾🍾👌... and also THANKS for another great and informative video 👍

[@AndyAstbury]

*Cheers Frank* 🍻🍻

[@aditya_gupta]

What a treasure of information. Thanks

[@AndyAstbury]

So nice of you 👍🍻

[@gruagach1]

A huge thanks for all these vids on Raw Therapee. I've been using the Raw Therapee PS combo since at least 2009 and have always thought there is something missing from my images that I could not manage to put my finger on. I'd say your RT tutorials have gone a very long way to solving my problems the devil is in the detail many thanks. I would rather use GIMP as apposed to PS as I originally used to do but feel PS has a certain look that people prefer.... perhaps that's reason enough to learn GIMP again :)

[@PeterLavender]

Hi Andy, The time wasn't an issue at all. I did notice its run time when this popped up, but given the subject matter I was only too happy to wait for the right time to get comfy and finally get a better understanding of wavelets. After all my years of using RT, I've messed about with wavelets and I have to say this is one of the best and most accessible introduction and explanations of wavelets. Thanks for taking the time to put this video together. 1 hour of my life well spent! :)

[@AndyAstbury]

*Thanks Peter - much appreciated* 🍻🍻

[@panagiotisdalagiorgos]

Thanks for another great video. Made things a lot clearer about how wavelets work.

[@AndyAstbury]

*Cheers* 🍻😆🍻

[@MattHoff100]

Great explanation of a very complicated topic. I love your videos and look forward to see what you are going to teach each time. I have been using Raw Therapee for many years but have learned more from you about how it works in just a few days than in all the time before. Keep up the good work!

[@AndyAstbury]

*Awesome, thank you Matthew* 🍻🍻

[@gbdr_ps_fan8656]

Andy, huge thanks for that. It was long awaited, but you virtually dropped the bomb with it. Excellent explanation of all the detailed aspects that go along with the wavelets. Again, looking forward to see your take on other wavelet-related tools. Cheers, Greg.

[@AndyAstbury]

*Cheers Greg* 🍻🍻

[@RickScheibner]

You do some great work, Andy, and your contribution to the RT community is invaluable. I'm saving up many of your videos to go through once I get a good stretch of time to devote to it. Thank you for your efforts and hard work!

[@AndyAstbury]

Many thanks for the kind words Rick, much appreciated 🍻🍻🍻

[@Being_Joe]

Thanks Andy. I think you just broke my head with good information, haha.

[@AndyAstbury]

*Cheers Jose, but the real head-breakers come in the next version* 😆😂🍻

[@arnonart]

Stunning! Yes, I knew something about working with wavelets but this one is really profound and very easy to understand. In fact the background theory was groundbreaking. Thanks a lot!

[@AndyAstbury]

*You're very welcome Arnon* 🍻🍻

[@dunnymonster]

Well I used to think I was a true pixel peeper, now I realise I am merely an amateur lol. That's some complex stuff right there. Very clever stuff however. Not sure I do any photography that would require such absolute precision but none the less the benefits are clear. Thanks for blowing my mind again Andy 😁

[@AndyAstbury]

*Cheers buddy* 🍻🍻 I'm sure you do, or maybe it's time to start - don't forget, that image is off a 12Mp 1.5x crop sensor that's over 13 years old.👍

[@dunnymonster]

@@AndyAstbury Still looks amazing Andy, testimony to how well it was taken in the first place 😉

[@AndyAstbury]

Old Nikon D2Xs and a battered Sigma 180mm macro - I'd be lucky if I got £400 for the combo today. Megapixels doesn't trump quality though, and the two are not always synonymous 😬 You got a Flickr page or the like?

[@dunnymonster]

@@AndyAstbury No Flickr or the like, I loathe social media sites as a general rule. Used to have an Instagram account which I've not bothered with for the last two years. I guess I really should make the effort given social media offers an excellent platform for us picture taking types lol

[@cacophonix]

Hi Andy, thank you for this wonderful video. One question: you applied contrast adjustments to the finer details (L1-3) only to highlights, and remaining levels only to shadows. Given that lower frequency details can be present both in highlights or shadows, what is the reason for applying them in this way?

[@photomoods-mariobolz8801]

it's fun here what is good takes time I watch your videos with the greatest enthusiasm I learn something new every time and very well explained mario

[@AndyAstbury]

*Thank you Mario* 🍻🍻👍

[@richardregal7378]

Superb explanation. Based on this and on one of your other videos I have started to zoom out until the picture is about 7cm wide on the screen to see the major outlines. I then go into full screen mode and using one level at a time with a black or grey background find the level where just those outline show. I then give a contrast boost to that level to add shape to the picture. Does that sound a sensible thing to be doing?

[@AndyAstbury]

Hi there Richard, nice to see you here and welcome! It's vital that you view the image at 'smaller than fit to screen' many times while processing, and changing the background colour too is a big help - you can see the 'big picture' when zoomed out, and swapping background colours/tones can really show the overall image contrast. However, you don't always 'see' the effect of some adjustments until you are at 50% or 100% - wavelet adjustments are hard to see at lower than 100%. But in general terms zooming out helps visualise a 'gallery hanging' so when you think of it in those terms you can understand its value. So yes, it sounds like you are on the right track Richard🍻👍

[@richardregal4208]

Nice tutorial. I use wavelets a slightly different way that I want your take on. Following one of your other videos I zoom out until the image is about 2½inches wide on the screen so that I can see what the picture is about and what the major outlines are. I then go into full screen mode and activte wavelets with a black or grey backgrond one level at a time. I look for the level that gives me the level of detail that has the outlines I noticed (usually 6-8) and then bump up that level a litle to add some “shape” before doing any other contrast adjustments. Do you think that makes sense?

[@AndyAstbury]

If it works for Richard then there's nothing wrong there that I can see 🍻👍

[@aljo.antony]

Can we make a leaving as a macro photographer ?

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

Could Clarity in ACR and Lightroom actually be doing this automatically in the background based on the contrast distribution of the image?

[@AndyAstbury]

No Eigil - clarity increases/decreases contrast in middle TONES, whereas RT wavelets works by shifting contrast based on DETAIL level NOT TONE level.

[@analogoutdoors]

I have 5.8, but there is no option for wavelets in tools. Is there something I need to do to get that?

[@AndyAstbury]

Advanced Tab Mike, looks a little like an old radioactive symbol - inside there you will find Wavelets.

[@analogoutdoors]

@@AndyAstbury Thanks.

[@mikeyBee4045]

This is way above my head unfortunately. You sound local, Lancashire perchance?

[@AndyAstbury]

Hi Mike, stick with it, you'll get it in the end 0 took me bloody ages! No, Sandbach in Ceshire - where you at?

[@mikeyBee4045]

@@AndyAstbury I've previously just been using Windows Photo Editor mostly, I find it quite simple & easy to use for jpegs compared to Raw therapee which blew my mind when I first tried it, I'm certainly not going to subscribe to Lightroom, so I guess I'm going to have to stick with it, because I'd like to to start shooting raw.. I'm in sunny Pendle, where the witches come from. :-)

[@AndyAstbury]

Ohh you've got to start shooting raw Mike! Raw files + Raw Therapee = photo witchcraft, so you live in't reet place!