I was wondering if someone knows a setting in RT 5.11 that automatically let’s me rename a snapshot after creating it. When I create snapshots, I often create 3 or more and thus, renaming them becomes essential in order to keep a good overview.
As of now, I have to double-click on the snapshot in order to rename it which is not horrible, but does take up a bit of time. The solution to this would be a setting that, if enabled, would make me go into “renaming mode” automatically after creating a snapshot.
I’m excited to see if someone has an idea on how to do this.
Hello & welcome here!
In RawTherapee there’s no other way to rename snapshots as you described.
What you want - if I understand you well - is available in ART though, that’s a fork of RawTherapee. When creating a snapshot, the original name, Snapshot 1, is selected and you can directly change that name.
Big advantage of ART is that snapshots are stored in the sidecar file, so the next time you open your photo, all the snapshots are still there! In RT they are lost after closing the photo.
So the functionality exists (in ART) but it’s not implemented in RT.
I suggest to open a feature request on the following link.
Perhaps it’s easy for a RT programmer to port that code (I can’t tell as I’m not a C++ programmer).
Thank you for the warm welcome and the quick and super helpful reply.
I always thought that ART was a completely different program to RT and consequently dismissed it, but I will definitely look into it now. Any tips on resources for getting to know the basics?
Also, thank you for the link, I will try to describe my problem there.
One of the links there goes to an article describing the basics of ART, that I wrote nearly 5 years ago. Of course ART had evolved over time, but it gives you at least an idea how it works.
To be clear, I don’t want to push you to ART. I use both programs (RT and ART) and have contributed to both of them, mainly translations. But as said above, the ability to store your snapshots in a sidecar file is a very big plus for ART.
