Basic Editing in Raw Therapee 

7:42 That's a great point. Often, I hone in on the perfect post-edit, go grab a coffee and when I come back to it, my image looks way over-processed and often unnatural. The 2 keys to good post processing are: 1. everything in moderation and 2. ...always take a break and come back to it.

Clear, to the point, nicely delivered ... but best of all it's not a "dazzling display of mousing virtuosity" - just well presented empathetic delivery. At last: someone more intent on getting the message across such that the student can follow than showing off. Thanks for these.

Fantastic - i've learnt more in 9 minutes than i have in the previous 3 hours.I'm making the migration from Adobe to GIMP/Therapee right now and this has helped no end. Many thanks!

This is by far the most amazing beginner tutorial I've seen for RT. I moved to RT from lightroom and initially I felt overwhelmed my RT. Your video has given me what I need to approach my editing on RT with confidence.

Dude. You rock. Thanks for the straight forward, easy to understand instruction.

5 years later and this tutorial still works wonders!!!

Just started out with photography and your video is actually really helpful! Love that you're able to go through the basics in less than 10 minutes. Thanks!

Absolutely amazing tutorial Dale, I learned a ton and now I feel much more comfortable when it come to editing! You should make many more tutorials, you have a great voice for it and are a great speaker! Thank You!

Thank you for making this so simple to understand.You have probably saved me hours of fiddling about and getting nowhere.

hands down one of the best tutorials I've seen!

I was looking for Before and After. Now I found it on your video(snapshot)😃 ThankYou🙏

Dale many thanks for sharing the techniques for editing in a plain & simple language.

Finally someone told me how to see my original picture and compare in real time with that snapshot feature.

Thankyou so much, was struggling with the app but you gave explained brilliantly

Thanks for your time. I've started learning the basics of post-production. Carry on.

Very helpful video, saving it to watch again later. So happy you demonstrated working with the Tone Curves, I didn't understand it before as I was used to Levels in Photoshop Elements. That graduated filter trick is neat! I see you exposed that shot for the sky to retain highlights and bring up shadow detail in post, it worked wonderfully!

Jesus... Presented so well and to the point.. Thank you Dale

Hey that explanation of the graduated exposure filter was exactly what I needed haha!!! Video was super easy to follow and really made editing look less scary lmao! Cheers!!!

I will say one word. Awesome Buddy. Your flow is much good.

Absolutely incredible my friend, thank you

Thanks Dale! Brilliant job of explaining it all in simple terms.

Wow and Thank You. Your tutorial is my best use of internet time in a long time. Many other "tutorials" left me thinking.... 'I'll never get those minutes back.' You are awesome.

Downloaded the software and not a clue how to use it - until I found your video - Thanks Dale - Great job

Brilliant tutorial Dale. You really have a penchant for teaching. This has really enhanced my understanding of the power and need of editing. Thanks a ton!

lovely clear clam voice, and easy to follow, not to quick, really helped thanks

Cheers, excellent basic tutorial!

Excellent tutorial - love the configurable ND filter demo - I've no idea how to do that in Lightroom 5.7 so this helps the decision to switch to Raw Therapee - together with Adobe's change to an expensive subscription only model. In fact I might not need a Mac anymore if everything important can now be done on Linux! Dale, you've changed my life!

thank you, great video. amaizing example btw

Great instructional video! I've downloaded RT and am happy that it works for both my Fuji and Sony raw files. I love the way that the graduated filter works. The deeper I delve into RT I'm thinking that it's all I need.

i downloaded this software for the first time ever and was having a horrible time trying to understand what was going on but this video helped me soooo much!!! i feel like i can finally navigate it and I am soo thankful for you

Amazing Video Straight to the point. Cheers 🍻 👏

Very good introduction to the app. Clear and to the point.

Crisp & clear explanation..

After watching that I think (as I've installed it) I'll be brave enough to dive in and have some fun! Thanks for a great introduction.

Thank you for creating this tutorial Dale, it was most helpful!

Loved it, easy and straight to the point.

Thank you so much for this video. I am new to shooting in RAW and found this video as I was searching for alternatives to Lightroom. To be honest, being an old guy, I was really worried that I would not be able to grasp how to "process" images, since all my experience years ago was in the wet darkroom. Your presentation was simple, easy to understand, and non-threatening. I now think that I can get started with this and maybe improve some of my images. Well done, Sir.

Thank you so much. I now know enough to get started👍

Superb Lesson, Dale. It was very informative. Appreciated your taking time to make this video.

Thank you Dale for a great tutorial.

Nicely done. Took some of the mystery out of it!

It seems to me that RawTherapee is not really a beginners’ software (although videos such as this one do help of course) - I suspect lots of conceptual knowledge is presumed. Would you say that’s true. If yes, could you recommend something a tad more approachable. Ideally free / open source but if not then, affordable, perhaps?

Such a pleasant sounding man :)

Thanks Dale for a great tutorial. Have only just discovered this software as I am using Linux on my computer. I have a sister called Dale, believe it or not!

My first introduction in raw processing (of course using Linux). Great !

Great video, exactly what i was looking for, thank you so much ! just saved me a ton of time

Great tutorial. Really helpful. Many thanks for posting. :)

Thank you, very helpful!

Very well explained in a clear voice. Much appreciated.

Really helped as a beginner. Thanks alot!

A million thanks to you. Superb tutorial.

Your tutorial is excellent. Many thanks!

You're a hero

love it... thanks dale

DearDale - thanks for the tutorial.Nice and clear.

Excellent introductory tutorial, quite helpful!

thank you so much my friend you helped me a lot

Thanks for taking the time to do this, it's very helpful!

Ah, 2015. When you could still talk about saturated oranges and spray tans and not have to fight the temptation to make a reference to Donald

Thanks, good instructions.

Thanks Dale nice video simple and to the point

Just bought a second hand GH4 and took my first photos, thanks for the tutorial mate!

Brilliant video ! Thank you :)

Great Tutorial, thank you for uploading!

Great video would watch again 10/10 100%

Excellent tutorial, thank you.

Oh Man, thanks for that, I have learnt so much from that 10 mins.

You are amazing.Thank you so much

Excellent

thank you man, thas was a really good presentation... keep up the good work

Nice tutorial usually I use Lightroom, is there a way to make custom presets to make the editing process a lot faster

Thanks a bunch, really clear and helpfull!

this was very helpful..can you please do more videos like explaining the HSV sliders and noise reduction.

Thank you clear and concise

Thanks again I find this so helpful.

so helpful, thank you

Can I do this but like draw a box around something I want to reduce the exposure on? I have some windows that are washed out and would like to see through them thanks for the great video

What a terrific video and presentation style. Shame your channel is dead. You could have done a wonderful series on RT. Thank you anyway

Thanks for this. Have a question - is the preview that Raw Therapee shows of the image, a full resolution preview or is it dumbing the image down? If it’s the latter, is there a way around this.

Thanks for the nice tutorial! :)

Thank you very much this really helped me alot 😀👍

Brilliant video

This is so helpful!!

For what looks like 142 previous, positive comments...I VERY MUCH AGREE tyvm VERY well done!!👏🍻

great video. excellent

cleared some stuff out for me, thanks :)

Really like your teaching style. Just wondering what the minimum computer configuration you would recommend to use Raw Therapee. I'm currently shopping for a new laptop. Thanks for your help

Good video :) Good software too ! I'm using the version 4.2, and buttons and functions are more or less the same.

thankq so much

great thanks :)

Heaven sent....another well known, cloud-based photo editing environment has literally died on me and I have more engineers than you can count debugging the issue on my SurfaceBook (my on-the-job editor). I'm dead in the water with two-days of photos to process. This tool looks amazing. Your tutorial is great. Question....can we do any watermarking via the tool? Small deal but many of my clients ask for their team logos included on photos. If not...any suggestions for how to do this?

Thank you so much!!

Great one Dale. It's a sad that Raw therapee for me have problems at import image it's all purple. Searching on the web and could find a fix.

Every time I edit the exposure/color of a photo in RawTherapee and then close it, the next image in my file browser automatically has the same edits applied. How do I turn that off??? I can't find an answer anywhere!

Excellent thank you. This has convinced me to get into 'shooting RAW', especially shots featuring some sky. I'm currently using 2 or 3 different editors for my jpegs, switching between them by copy & pasting the image. I have a question: Can I paste a RAW image into RT, tweak, convert then copy & paste it into another editor for any further work like cloning?

Thanks!!

Great job thanks. I'm looking for a good RAW editor to avoid Adobe.

amazing!!!,

Dale, is this the only editing software you use and can you recommend a good payed for software.Do you use AVS video editor at all. By the way great tutorial too mate.

thanks a lot :)