I am a relatively new user of Raw Therapee (4.1.64, Windows 10).It works very well, and possibly this is not a bug but a setting that I have not done correctly, but when I make changes to the raw file (NEF from my Nikon), those changes are saved on the original NEF file. An output file is given an appendage to keep from overwriting an existing jpeg file, but not in the case of this raw file. Incidentally, this happened when I used RT to edit a PNG file - changes were saved directly onto that file. Am I doing something wrong? I really don’t want to make backups of all my RAW files before using RT!
What do you mean the changes are saved to the raw file?
It will keep the last settings you used, but they’re not stored in the raw file, which should be untouched.
Anything done to a raw image in RawTherapee is saved in a “sidecar” file: <filename>.pp3. Your original raw file is completely untouched.
Now, editing png, tif, jpeg images might let you overwrite them, but it’s a setting for sure you can change!
Then I must be doing something wrong. When I look at the thumbnail images, the raw/nef file shows the changes that have been made in a previous session. When I “open” it, it’s the changed image that shows up in the editor. There is a pp3 file there as well, but I don’t know how to get back to the original raw image. Perhaps if I deleted the pp3 file? here’s a link to what I see on my screen, and you can see the NEF file that shows the changes previously made to it. enter link description here
Select the default or neutral profile and bam, back to normal.
Right, RawTherapee will apply the last saved processing edits that it will read from the associated pp3 file.
You can delete the pp3 file if you want to completely reset things. You can also just set the processing profile back to “Neutral” or “Default”.
From the thumbnail view, you can also Right-click on the image in question and reset the processing parameters:
Yay! That worked! I’m glad - I didn’t want to give up on RT, but I definitely didn’t want to hassle with saving backups of the RAW files whenever I wanted to use them! Thanks!
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By the way, 4.1 is very old, I highly recommend you get the latest 4.2.something development version.
What steps are needed to install a development version on Windows?
Grab the latest Windows non-debug version from http://rawtherapee.com/downloads