• new language: Norwegian Bokmål (norsk-bm)
• updates in Italian, Russian, Japanese and Suomi

Many thanks to all contributors for their efforts.

• Please download a Windows installer here (mirror)
• Please download a tgz archive for Linux or Windows here (mirror)

The RT DevTeam

• Users Manual for RT v2.4 (english)
• Manuel pour RT v2.4 (french), last change: 2009-01-31
• Benutzerhandbuch für RT v2.4 (german), last change: 2009-02-06
• Manuale dell'utente di RT 2.4 (italian), last change 2009-02-08
• Handleiding RT 2.4 (netherlands), last change 2009-05-30

Here are some additonal informations:

• Internal Workflow of RT v2.4 (english)
• Flux de travail Interne de RT v2.4 (french)
• Interner Arbeitsablauf von RT v2.4 (german), last change: 2009-02-06
• Modalità operativa interna di RT 2.4 (italian)

For those who want to translate the english manual into their own language, here the OpenOffice source of the manual and the internal workflow (Changes from previous version have been tracked):

• Users Manual for RT v2.4 (english - OpenOffice), last change: 2009-01-21
• Internal Workflow for RT v2.4 (english - OpenOffice), last change: 2008-10-21

Please check before you start with a new translation in the Localisation Forum if someone else already started with the same language and post there if you start to translate something.

If you have translated the manual to a new language, please send the result to localisation at rawtherapee dot com. This way it can be provided here for public download.

Requirements:

• a fast processor with SSE support is recommended (but not required)
• at least 512 MB of RAM.
• Minimum recommended screen resolution 1024x768
• Windows version: Windows 2000, XP or Vista (32bit) is required
• For the linux version: gtk+ 2.12, gtkmm 2.14 series required

Download:

• Windows version can be downloaded here (SSE support).
• Linux version: rawtherapee24rc2.tgz (SSE support), 64-bit version: rawtherapee24rc2_64.tgz

Disclaimer:

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

• dcraw update to 8.93/1.421
• gtk/gtkmm update in the win32 version
• fixed installer/uninstaller
• fixed several small bugs

If you were so fast that you downloaded the RC of RawTherapee in the past few hours please be so kind and do it again.

I apologize,

Gabor

• crash on closing the progress dialog fixed
• confusion when pp2 files of both the old and new naming convention found
• less tall "Preferences" dialog to fit the small screen of netbooks
• a new option in the "Save As" dialog: put to the head of the queue
• fixed non-working image saving when path contains international characters
• much fewer maze artifacts for Olympus raw files with hphd and ahd demosaicing methods
• more keyboard shortcuts (see the popup menu in the file browser)
• dcraw updated to 8.90/1.417
• updated rawzor support (now for 64 bit linux version, too)

And one more important news: I managed to compile RT on Mac OSX (no X11 is required). The problem is that I do not know this operation system very well so I have to find out how to create an installer, or how to deploy the application on MAC. If you are an experienced osx developer please contact me, I need some help.

Requirements:

• a fast processor with SSE support is recommended (but not required)
• at least 512 MB of RAM.
• Minimum recommended screen resolution 1024x768
• Windows version: Windows 2000, XP or Vista (32bit) is required
• For the linux version: gtk+ 2.12, gtkmm 2.14 series required

Download:

• Windows version can be downloaded here (SSE support).
• Linux version: rawtherapee24rc.tgz (SSE support), 64-bit version: rawtherapee24rc_64.tgz

Disclaimer:

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Lots of bugfixes have been made so we released the 4th beta version.

Bugs fixed:

• crash on save-as (a new progress indicator dialog has also been introduced)
• ISO is now recognized in rw2 files
• autoexp with clipping=0 is working
• fixed the permanent delete & empty trash crash when the image in editor is deleted
• detail window label when zooming
• better jpeg error handling
• Canon 1Ds tiffs and Kodak dcr files are supported again
• new naming scheme for pp2 files (the old one is kept for loading only for compatibility)

Our team rests now for a few days, but the development is continued soon.

Requirements:

• a fast processor with SSE support is recommended (but not required)
• at least 512 MB of RAM.
• Minimum recommended screen resolution 1024x768
• Windows version: Windows 2000, XP or Vista (32bit) is required
• For the linux version: gtk+ 2.12, gtkmm 2.14 series required

Download:

• Windows version can be downloaded here (SSE support).
• Linux version: rawtherapee24b4.tgz (SSE support), 64-bit version: rawtherapee24b4_64.tgz

Disclaimer:

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Requirements:

• a fast processor with SSE support is recommended (but not required)
• at least 512 MB of RAM.
• Minimum recommended screen resolution 1024x768
• Windows version: Windows 2000, XP or Vista (32bit) is required
• For the linux version: gtk+ 2.12, gtkmm 2.14 series required

Download:

• Windows version can be downloaded here (SSE support).
• Linux version: rawtherapee24b3.tgz (SSE support), 64-bit version: rawtherapee24b3_64.tgz

Disclaimer:

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Bug fixes compared to beta2 are:

Bug fixes compared to beta1 are:

• multiple thumbnails for the same image bug fixed
• color propagation is back! However the luminance method is used instead in the file browser.
• proper rights for the "converted" folder under linux
• history panel cannot be resized after hide/restore fixed
• send to editor now does not freeze if the app path in invalid
• duplicate list of extensions in the preferences fixed (you have to delete your old options file!)
• tiff and rw2 extensions added to the default list of extensions
• color values under the mouse pointer are now correct
• directory browser now does not forget its width
• linear dng/canon sraw is now supported
• IPTC data in nef files is now detected/parsed
• several bugs fixed corresponding to the multiple selection in the file browser

Known issues (Several users have it but I can not reproduce them, please test it and post report to the forum if you found a reproducible scenario for these bugs):

• some people reported crash when save/save-as is pressed
• the preview zoom does not work properly (e.g. fit zoom)
• still no solution on the library dependency problems under older linux distributions

Requirements:

• a fast processor with SSE support is recommended (but not required)
• at least 512 MB of RAM.
• Minimum recommended screen resolution 1024x768
• Windows version: Windows 2000, XP or Vista (32bit) is required
• For the linux version: gtk+ 2.12, gtkmm 2.14 series required

Download:

• Windows version can be downloaded here (SSE support).
• Linux version: rawtherapee24b2.tgz (SSE support), 64-bit version: rawtherapee24b2_64.tgz

Disclaimer:

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Requirements:

• a fast processor with SSE support is recommended (but not required)
• at least 512 MB of RAM.
• Minimum recommended screen resolution 1024x768
  
• Windows version: Windows 2000, XP or Vista (32bit) is required
• For the linux version: gtk+ 2.14, gtkmm 2.14 series required
  

Download:

• Windows version can be downloaded here (SSE support).
  
• Linux version: rawtherapee24b1.tgz (SSE support), 64-bit version: rawtherapee24b1_64.tgz

Disclaimer:

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

We hope to have a short beta cycle and try to release the final version as soon as possible. There are many-many changes under the hood. We have all the major building blocks done, so -- for the next version -- we can start a new, workflow-oriented GUI re-arrangement and also to refine the image processing algorithms.

Detailed change log for 2.4beta1:

• Users Manual for RT v2.3 (english)
• Manual de usuario RT v2.3 (espanol)
• Manuel pour RT v2.3 (french)
  
• Benutzerhandbuch für RT v2.3 (german)
• Manuale RT v2.3 (italian)

Here are some additonal informations:

• Internal Workflow of RT v2.3 (english)
• Plan de Proceso Interno de RT v2.3 (espanol)
  
• Flux de travail Interne de RT v2.3 (french)
  
• Interner Arbeitsablauf von RT v2.3 (german)
• Modalità operativa interna di RT 2.3 (italian)
  

For those who want to translate the english manual into their own language, here the OpenOffice source of the manual and the internal workflow:

• Users Manual for RT v2.3 (english - OpenOffice)
• Internal Workflow for RT v2.3 (english - OpenOffice)

Please check before you start with a new translation in the Localisation Forum if someone else already started with the same language and post there if you start to translate something.

If you have translated the manual to a new language, please send the result to localisation at rawtherapee dot com. This way it can be provided here for public download.

• 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

Requirements:

• a fast processor with SSE support is recommended (but not required)
• at least 512 MB of RAM.
• Windows version: Windows 2000, XP or Vista (32bit) is required
• for the linux version: gtk+ 2.12 series required

Download:

• Windows version can be downloaded here here (SSE support).
  
• Linux version: rawtherapee24m1.tgz (SSE support)

Disclaimer:

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

• 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

• a fast processor with SSE support is recommended (but not required)
• at least 512 MB of RAM.
• Windows version: Windows 2000, XP or Vista (32bit) is required
• for the linux version: gtk+ 2.10 series required

Download:

• Windows version can be downloaded here here (SSE support).
  If you have an old CPU without SSE support then click here (no SSE support).
• Linux versions
  (SSE support): rawtherapee23_glibc24.tgz and rawtherapee23_glibc23.tgz
  (no SSE support): rawtherapee23nosse_glibc24.tgz and rawtherapee23nosse_glibc23.tgz

Price:

Feedback:

Disclaimer:

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Main features :

• Selectable high performance demosaicing algorithms (EAHD and HPHD and VNG-4).
  Compare them on this comparison page.
• Using DCRaw 8.82/1.398 for decoding RAW images
  
• Image post processing in 16 bit / channel mode
  • Exposure control in RGB space
    • Auto exposure with adjustable clipping point / Exposure compensation / Shadow and highight compression / Contrast adjustment, curve editor
  • White balance adjustment in RGB space
    • With in-camera, automatic and spot white balance options / Temperature/Green tint fine tuning
  • Highlight Recovery
  • Shadows/Highlights control in RGB space
  • Basic Luminance curve tool to modify the luminance channel in CIELab color space
    • Brightness / Contrast adjustment, curve editor
  • USM sharpening applied on the CIELab luminance channel
    • Classical USM parameters (Radius, Amount, Threshold) / Option to avoid noise amplification / Sharpening halo control
  • Optional RL Deconvolution based sharpening for even better sharpening results
  • Color shift control in CIELab color space
    • Allows color shift by shifting the CIELab "a" and "b" channels
  • Color booster applied on the CIELab "a" and "b" channels
    • Amplifies color channels "a" and "b" together or separately / Avoids color overamplification in high chrominance areas / Option to avoid clipping caused by too high color boosting
  • Luminance denoising algorithm applied on the CIELab luminance channel
    • Edge sensitive method to preserve as much details as possible
  • Color denoising tool applied on the CIELab "a" and "b" channels
    • Classical gaussian blur or edge sensitive bluring of the color channels
  • Fast switching between different postprocessing profiles
  • Image flipping horizontally or vertically, rotation by 90 degrees clockwise or counter clockwise
  • Arbitrary image rotation (straightening tool)
    • with fill function or automatic crop
  • Simple lens distortion correction
  • Crop tool
  • Chromatic Aberration correction tool
  • Channel Mixer for Red, Green and Blue channels
  • C/A Correction
  • Vignetting Correction
• ICC based color management
• Change History with bookmarks to support before/after checking
• Output options:
  • Supported file formats:
    • JPEG (8 bit), PNG (8 or 16 bit), TIFF (8 or 16 bit)
  • Image ouput size could be set
  • EXIF data is preserved in JPEG output (except crw files)
  • Output directory and automatic file naming highly customizable
• File browsing with thumbnails
• Localization supported (utf8 language file):
  already included languages are: czech, deutsch, english, espanol, italian, latvian, magyar, nederlands, polish, russian, slovak, swedish
  

• ICC based color management (with selectable input/working/output/monitor profiles)
• Clipped highlight/shadow indication
• Reset button for the adjusters
• Browser shows basic exif data
• (Last Photo) option in the profile switcher
• rt.exe can now be called with an image file in command line argument
• New color scheme, splash screen, icon and home page (thanks, bytec)
• Fix for the magenta highlights of Olympus cameras
• Many bug fixes (including file sorting)

• Tone curve and Luminance Curve editors implemented
• Sharpening now entails much fewer sharpening halos
• Improved response to color boost and luminance curve adjustments
• Much better highlight handling
• Auto white balance algorithm has been replaced
• A new (faster) demosaicing algorithm, HPHD, is available and it is now the default
• Hideable history and file browser panels
• New cameras are supported: Fuji SuperCCD, D1X and raw files with the Canon hack
• Thumbnail size in file browser is now adjustable in the Preferences dialog