I have been using RawTherapee for a number of years now. The development seems to be stuck at 5.8 released way back in February 2020. Stumbled upon ART while I was browsing Flickr RT group. ART seems to be a better replacement for RT and the development is active.
One question. Portability of the program is very crucial for me. RT allows that and is also available on PortableApps.com. Is there a way to make ART portable? My workflow involves keeping the program on a flash drive and edit photos on different machines. All the presets, preferences etc. are stored in the RT directory on the flash drive. Can this be achieved in ART?
Hi,
yes, you can have a portable installation in the same way as this is possible for RT. I will need to check what is needed though, as I don’t remember on top of my head.
However, note that the development of RT is still very active. Even though there has been no “official” release for a while, you can get development builds that should be pretty stable. I don’t remember the URL right now but if you search around this forum you should find it.
@agriggio Thanks for the quick feedback. Would appreciate if you can let me know how to make ART portable the same way as RT. I find the UI of ART more modern than RT.
Will try the development builds of RT. Don’t know whether they can be run in a portable mode. Is it as simple as replacing the exe file in the portable installation?
Thanks. The page that you mentioned has multiple dev versions such as Skylake, Icelake, generic, haswell etc. I have no idea which one to download. Appreciate your help in understanding these versions.
Thanks for the explanation. Looks like I have a 10th generation processor! The systems specs show Intel(R) Core™ i3-1005G1 CPU. Will download the Icelake version.