I finally decided to call what I’ve been futzing with over the past ten years 1.0:
From here on, I’m going to publish a periodic release with accumulated bug fixes and updated libraries, particularly Libraw for new cameras.
It now does all I need for raw processing, and thanks to PlayRaw it supports a large collection of cameras. I still have things to do to it, however:
- ACES/OCIO support, of some sort…
- librtprocess goodness: chromatic abberation correction, highlight recovery, and whatever else @heckflosse puts into this outstanding library offering
- A better color saturation algorithm. The OKLab thread is one candidate for this.
- Other things I can’t recall at the moment.
While rawproc is fully usable in a raw workflow, my main motivation for writing it was to provide a teaching tool, both to me individually and in dialogue with others. To that end, I 'm going to make a couple of videos, one touring the panels and menus, and another walking through the processing of a raw file into an image rendition. I’ve found the G’MIC-inspired toolchain approach to be profoundly instructive, laying explicit the steps needed to go from raw measurements to pleasing renditions.
Anyhoo, FWIW…