Hope i make sense. I got about 300.000 images in PSD format i want to process into JPEG form previous photoshoots. I was using Rawtherapee as the interface is so much better than darktable to handle image selection but after few days fiddling around with Rawtherapee-CLI i can’t get it to export JPEG using a pp3 file (to apply Canon Portrait style) making me apply the style in every folder to every image (copy style).
Is there really an issue with Rawtherapy to work the way i want oit to work?
I wrote a script that recursively runs through all model folders and in eaxch model folder is a xxxxxx.pp3 file to indicate which camera it was taken with and which style i want to apply to all images. I expert using quality 8/9 and dont change resolution. It works if i don’t use a pp3 file but that kills automation.
I got as far as finding the interface to work properly but not the CLI since it is probably missing the main DLL’s needed which aren’t included in the installation package? (Libraw and some other…?) I’m not an expert unfortunately so i hope you guys can set me off in the right direction to make this work.
Here’s the code if it makes sense i run in Powershell v7…
$RTCLI = “C:\Program Files\RawTherapee\5.12\rawtherapee-cli.exe”
$RootFolder = “E:\Space Keeping\Modelsabcde”
Loop through each model folder
Get-ChildItem -Path $RootFolder -Directory | ForEach-Object {
$ModelFolder = $_.FullName
$PP3 = Join-Path $ModelFolder "camera.pp3"
if (!(Test-Path $PP3)) {
Write-Host "No PP3 found in $ModelFolder — skipping"
return
}
Write-Host "Using PP3: $PP3"
# Process RAW files inside this model folder
Get-ChildItem -Path $ModelFolder -Recurse -File -Include *.cr2, *.cr3 |
ForEach-Object -Parallel {
$rawFile = $_.FullName
$jpgPath = [System.IO.Path]::ChangeExtension($rawFile, ".jpg")
if (Test-Path $jpgPath) {
Write-Host "Skipping (exists): $jpgPath"
return
}
Write-Host "Converting: $rawFile → $jpgPath"
& $using:RTCLI -o "$jpgPath" -p "$using:PP3" -j=95 "$rawFile"
} -ThrottleLimit 8
}