Rawtherapee Creating a Custom Profile

[@silviogrosso7780]

Thanks a lot for this new tutorial on RawTherapee! Well done indeed 🙂

[@NaturalProfile]

Thank you. Peace be unto you

[@geptilgeptiloff7537]

Thank you so much!!! Your lessons are very useful and interesting. I've been trying to understand RAW Therapee for a long time. But there are so few lessons. I am not a native English speaker, and I am using a translator). I have a question about this lesson. In the Color Management module, in the DSP Illuminant group, I don't have anything to select. Probably these parameters need to be activated somehow. Do more lessons! Sincerely.

[@NaturalProfile]

Greetings. When using the Color Management, under the custom option, the DCP illuminant selections are not supported by all cameras in Rawtherapee. Another camera that I use is also not supported for that cr2 raw file. I hope that helps you with your Question. Peace be unto you

[@geptilgeptiloff7537]

@@NaturalProfile Thanks for the answer! I noticed this later. The first file was from a Panasonc FZ150 camera. I used a file from a Fujifilm X-A2 camera. And everything appeared. Create new lessons!

[@selwynleacock6601]

Very interesting, I keep tinkering with Rawtherapee but I can't work out how to get a pleasing photo with the minimum amount of mouse clicks.

[@NaturalProfile]

Greetings. It can take some time due to every photo being so different (exposure, light the angle of light, composition etc). In the video the custom profile that was created the tone curve was a gentle curve to start from so I could make adjustments to the shadows and highlight to get the contrast in the image that was pleasing to me for the final result. I don't have a simple answer because editing is personal what someone wants there final photo to look like and what looks pleasing them. Maybe if you create a few different profiles with different tone curves to start with or even the auto match tone curve so you have a few option to choose from when you open your images in RT then maybe we can use the minimum amount of mouse clicks to get the result that you might want. It would be great to get the results with a few clicks creating a custom profile like a preset in other programs. Even when other photographers talk about presets they mention its a starting point. I'm not sure it that helps, there just my thought on the subject. Peace be unto you.

[@selwynleacock6601]

@@NaturalProfile Thank you, I guess it's just a trail and error process, I was spoilt with Lightroom, I don't want to pay for the subscription so trying alternatives like RT & Darktable.

[@leeyarkess2539]

I don't have the prophoto output option.

[@professorp9903]

? i'm on a macbook pro, how do you delete profiles from my profiles? i looked in app/resour/"profiles" they are not there, only in RT menu

[@fintonmainz7845]

You renamed an existing profile. How do you save your profile without overwriting an existing one?

[@NaturalProfile]

Greetings. When someone saves there custom profile instead of just renaming an existing one like I did in the example, it should come up as a raw file extension like CR2 for canon or RW2 for a panasonic camera. eg (1245773.RW2.pp3). Then you can name your custom profile what you like. Just make sure you keep the .pp3 to save your new custom profile. I hope that helps. Peace be unto you

[@fintonmainz7845]

@@NaturalProfile I found out my problem was that I wasn't logged on to windows as administrator. I wasn't allowed to save to program files directory. Solved by saving to a different directory. Then exiting RT and copying file to RT sub folder (windows gives an option to have admin privelages when you do this)

[@NaturalProfile]

@@fintonmainz7845That may be useful if someone else comes across the same issue reading the comments. Peace be unto you