Hi, guys,
I am a photographer with quite an experience with using numerous commercial software such as Capture One Pro, Affinity Photo, Pixelmator, Aurora HDR, Aperture etc.
I would like to learn how to use RawTherapee effectively. Is there a manual for RT 5.5?
I played with one of my ORF files using RT 5.5 with less than satisfactory results.
Any guidance is appreciated.
Thank you,
L
Howdy!
A good starting place is always going to be the wiki: RawPedia. (There’s a PDF of the wiki available also).
A good follow-on place is to go ahead and ask questions here. There’s quite a few helpful users right here that I’m sure can help guide you.
Open a playraw with one of your ORF files 
Hi, heckflosse,
What is playraw?
Thank you,
L
Hi, patdavid,
Thank you for the reference. Looks like RawPeida is a good place to start.
L
Hi @Leo and welcome!
Here is a good start:
http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Getting_Started
And here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rawtherapee
Also, follow a lot of threads in this forum.
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
We have users that upload images for everyone else to edit and practice working on (they are free for you to practice with). You can find the full list of them here:
Hi, guys,
Thank you for the warm welcome and for the links.
May sound a little bit off-topic, what Linux software can be used to straighten the horizon?
GIMP does not have a custom rotation feature. What could be used instead?
Thank you,
L
Rawtherepee | Transform | Lens/Geometry →
Select Straight Line
Thank you, Claes,
That is a very important feature. A lot of software does not have it.
You can also access the straighten tool directly from the editor panel (I’m not on my computer now, but look at the buttons on the top of the image preview, it is somewhere around the pipette, crop, etc… tools.
GIMP actually has a custom rotation if you need it (I’d link a video but I’m not in front of that machine at the moment…).
I would shamelessly point you to this video of mine:
It shows some basic tools as a starting point quite similar to the rawpedia getting started article. It is important to notice that it starts processing in neutral mode. Newer RT version don’t open an image in neutral.
The good thing about the playraws is that many people post their .pp3 files, which is the file where the information about the processing is stored. You can then load those and see what they did.