I’m going to start AART, Another ART fork, okay? 
Jokes aside, I’m sure that a lot of video tutorials for RawTherapee still apply to ART as well. And once you get a feel for the software, it’s easy to discover and experiment with how different modules work.
Because there aren’t many IMHO, a better way might be a “ART” resources page that is updated frequently. Youtube searches are sketchy too.
There are good hints here, but finding them is rather tedious.
Don’t get me wrong, I am fully with on the finding info issue.
Yes, I know. The suggestion to replace ART with RTF was really just a dumb joke to create a valid use for RTFM. Sorry. It was not intended to anger you or the RT team, or to make a joke of either project.
oh no, I’m the dumb one – I so didn’t get it 
@agriggio, there’s a certain “cachet” in being hard-to-find… 
Seriously, a good product will stand on its merit, albeit at a slower pace.
I vote for something that has the acronym AARTVARK. 
I was going to suggest
Forked
Another
Raw
Therapee
But then decided against it. 
Hmmm… That could help with discoverability indeed 
Don’t let the Glimpse people find out about that one.
Hmmm, don’t think so. There’s a lot of prior art for the word… 
Someone beat me to FART, although, that would probably only narrow search results a bit anyway…
So, maybe, Forktherapee. Or Sporktherapee. Or Psychotherapee. Or Rawcooker.
It seems common for open source developers to hobble their project with a poor software name. “Art” as a title is going to be impossible to find and it comes across as having a grotesque ego being named after a word that represents the entirety of creative endeavor. I rarely find myself rooting for an open source project to fail but in this case I think I am. If the goal is to create RawTherapee with a simpler interface, and I think that’s a worthy goal, then I would rather RawTherapee itself be updated to provide that improvement.
Just because you don’t like the name? I mean, root for whatever you want, but a more constructive action would be to start submitting PRs to RawTherapee…
Oh, and “ART” is an acronym, sufficiently distinguishable from the word “Art” in my view. Or, you can piss off the legions of Arthurs in the world…
You seem not to have read Alberto’s take on this, earlier in this thread: he doesn’t care if the “general audience” doesn’t find his software. And that’s his prerogative.
That’s pretty rude and seems uncalled for.
If you’d done any reading or research before sharing your mean spirited and terrible opinion, then you’d know that RawTherapee won’t remove tools, to preserve backward compatibility. So the removal of tools won’t happen in RT, hence ART.
I did read Alberto’s take before I posted, he is being stubborn in favor of a bad decision. Perhaps I am too harsh on him though, it’s his fork and his choice. I think it’s a stupid name though.
The RawTherapee project doesn’t have to destroy their current interface to simplify things, they could add a feature that lets users switch to a streamlined interface. Though if RawTherapee devs are really so stubborn they won’t ever streamline their UI then that project probably needs to be replaced with a better fork, but not if the fork is just going to have the same stubborn response to user feedback.
You fail to realize that in the world of open-source software, trying to change the direction of an existing project without a fork is like trying to herd cats.
I think you should fork RT and show 'em (RT team and Alberto) how it’s done.
