I’ve been a Raw Therapee user for some time but, probably like most users, I use but a small part of it. The RAW tab, for example, I’ve mostly stayed away from and have not been very clear on what it is about; my assumption has been that it was for someone who wanted to modify how the RAW conversion is done.
The other day I took some photos of fireworks, however, and particularly with my first few attempts, the light of the fireworks was blown out; it was nice and bright but there was none of the color that I had witnessed with my eyes. In post-processing, I just assumed these images were hopeless - though I did not delete them.
Today it occurred to me that this might call for help from the RAW tab. I reasoned that in the RAW file, the color should still be there but was lost in the RAW conversion; by the time it the RAW sensor data was converted to a pixel map the color was all gone.
What I needed to do was to clip the intensity pixels - perhaps using a control cage - to reduce the intensity BEFORE the raw processing created the image. Unfortunately, I was not able to find anything in the RAW tab that would let me do such a thing. But maybe I’m just missing something.
Is there a feature like this somewhere? Should there be?
