ART feature requests and discussion

[priort (Todd Prior)]

Some ideas were thrown around here

Trying to emulate Adobe's clarity in RawTherapee

The clarity slider in Adobe Lightroom/Camera raw is quite a famous one, and many users of these product (ab)use it. In fact its effect seems quite complex, but used with taste, it can give a nice pop to the images. I’ve seen people asking how to emulate this kind of effect in RT. So I’ve tried. First I tried using filters available in the dev build, using mostly the capabilities found in the “Wavelet levels” panel. But since a couple days, I’ve tried using a build from the waveletnew branch, i…

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How does one emulate the LR's clarity slider in RT?

I did a bunch of Googling today and I can’t find an answer. Sometimes, back when I used to use Lightroom, I would use the Clarity slider as a subtle sharpener or desharpener. I didn’t know it at the time, but learned today that it’s basically changing the contrast of the midtones to give an appearance of more or less sharpness. Because of the subtlety of the effect, it was often nicer for producing a soft focus in post than messing with the global sharpness slider. (And going the other way, coul…