Help with "fast" export of KDC file to JPG

Software RawTherapee
1

img-1 png

Hi,
I am using RAWTherapee only for exporting of raw KDC files (which are large) to JPG files. It works generally great, but pictures with worse light are exported in very bad quality, although the original one isn’t so bad. In the attachment you can see two images - first one, PNG screen shot of original KDC file, and the second one, which was done by RAWTherapee export. You can see, that JPG image is much worse, than PNG. How can I make “nice” JPG file (at least as attached PNG quality) directly with RAWTherapee?

2

Hey

Please upload a sample raw file (either directly attach it here, or use https://filebin.net/ ), and in the meanwhile read:

3

Are you using neutral profile?

You can otherwise just adjust the black level, or use a curve where the lower left point is traslated a bit on the right, maybe copying and pasting the profile to every picture took in similar conditions.

4

Hi,
thank you all for very fast response and great suggestions - the problem was really in profile. For dark pictures is the generic “Equilibrated” profile the best.

Thank you.