Hello,
I have a question about the general workflow with raw files, RawTherapee and other image processing apps.
I’m a beginner with RawTherapee and noticed it saves all the processing parameters as a separate .out.pp3 file that is saved together with the target image. This makes it possible to easily change the processing parameters after the images have been converted. This is a very useful feature (and a great improvement over DigiKam which I’ve used before).
I use the following naming system for importing my raw files: “year/month/raw/”. Example:
~/images/2026/2026-05-00/raw/imgp1234.pef
Because RawTherapee doesn’t (yet?) support saving images in JXL format, I’m currently using RT to process raw files into TIFF images that are in a separate temporary directory. Then I use DigiKam to convert the TIFF into JXL format. I end up with the following files:
~/images/2026/2026-05-00/raw/imgp1234.pef
~/images/2026/2026-05-00/raw/temp/imgp1234.tiff
~/images/2026/2026-05-00/raw/temp/imgp1234.tiff.out.pp3
~/images/2026/2026-05-00/imgp1234.jxl
After the TIFF->JXL conversion I have no use for the temp files. Is it ok just move the “.tiff.out.pp3” file(s) back to raw dir? Can I re-use them if I need to make another edit in future?
Thanks!