Important things first: RawTherapee rocks!!!
Yes, I did use Lightroom extensively – but I am happy to get back to RawTherapee. Especially the Dynamic Profile Rules are suche a win and made me switch.
The only downside for me is the image quality in the File Browser. I just can not manage to get nice thumbnails from my processed raw files. I need to review easily and quickly what images are to keep and process and which ones are to trash. A grainy and low quality preview is misleading here.
It seems that thumbnails of unprocessed raw files are better. I can guess, these are the original jpgs embeded into the raw files?
I went to the preferences and set up the max image height. I can view larger thumbnails now - quality stays low.
Any suggestions how to fix that?
Thanks a lot!
Stephna
By the way: I am using RawTherapee 5.1.0 on a Mac 10.11
It’s a guessing game unless you show screenshots of what you see and what you expect to see.
Having said that, the thumbnails are not 100% accurate representations of the images, as some tools are skipped when generating thumbnails for speed reasons.
Totally, I think - I just had some badly processed images here
Now, as I am playing around with it, I do not really have that issue. I will post a screenshot when I am experiencing that issue again. But I think, it was just some weird color bending or procecing on my side…
This was more about shouting out, how happy I am about using RawTherapee again!
Then, I went to process the image quickly. I changed the white balance, some curves and added noise reduction. By doing that, the thumbnail gets recreated as needed:
In comparison to the original thumb, I see more grain in the darker areas and some color gradients in the lighter areas.
I am aware, this might be a littly picky. There are some photos that are worse – most photos are better. I just want to understand, what is going on here, maybe I can change some settings to get better quality thumbs? I am fully aware, that this is due to better performance and speed.
