Yes, I saw that. It’s fixed in the code (I’m now copying at least one of those sets of metadata tags, Dublin Core).
Building and publishing a new release is not fully automated and takes a little time, but it’ll be in the next beta.
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Released a new version, should be fixed.
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After reviewing the options, I decided to waive the non-commercial requirement.
If this was preventing anyone from contributing, have at it.
License is MIT No Attribution.
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Great, thank you for the new build.
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Is RethinkRaw still under development? There was no release since January. Do you plan any enhancements?
I haven’t had much time for it, to be honest.
I’ve just released Beta 6 will all changes since January. Edge is better supported (at more or less the same level as Chrome/Chromium). I’ve added (very rudimentary) print ability. And there were a few fixes. Also, dependencies (ExifTool, etc) have been updated. But that’s pretty much it.
On the “roadmap” I have a couple of “big” features that might not be very interesting to others, but which are to me: “remote editing” (store photos in one device, edit from another) and Google Photos upload/sync. I’m a bit stuck on these, work gets in the way.
Thank you for continuing the development. I would very much like to use RethinkRaw more often. The biggest drawback is the quality of the saved file because you can’t work further on the compressed image. But RR offers the opportunity to export as dng. Wouldn’t it be possible to implement to save the result as demosaiced dng? The DNG converter offers this option and the result is much more like a tiff with which I could work further on.
Unfortunately a linear DNG only solves the demosaicing step, it does nothing in terms of white balancing, color grading, tone mapping, etc. I can add the option of exporting a linear DNG, but IMO that doesn’t help much.
So there is no chance at all to get more out of RT than the preview and the dng?
None that I can think of. Sorry.
Is the project still alive?
I think this might have killed it TBH. I don’t care how useful software is but if you make this statement, you disqualify yourself entirely from any kind of open source perspective. Dead as a doornail, at least to me.
If you’re making money from photography, and find my software useful in your endeavours, you should really license some Adobe photography software yourself. If you hold a valid license to Photoshop/Lightroom/Elements you’re free to use my comparatively small contribution however you want, including commercially.
This was not the last thing he said about licensing and usage, and doesn’t appear to reflect the conclusion he eventually came to.
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I know but using the Adobe DNG Converter as core for anything seems like a certain recipe for failure in any situation. That, as well as the earlier remarks such as the one I quoted, also points to a certain way of thinking which I do not feel conductive to any enthusiastic following on the open source side. Too many strings attached IMHO.
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It’s alive in the sense that it is still the only software I personally use to edit RAW photos, which, admittedly, I don’t do a lot of.
Most of my enjoyment with photography is the actual picture taking; editing, for me, is mostly a chore. I also organize my photos in Google Photos, because it’s the easy/lazy thing to do for the other half of decent photos that are taken with the camera I (and my wife) carry at all time: our phones.
So my goal, eventually, is to streamline the process of taking RAWs from SD card into: files for archiving, JPEGs for Google Photos; with the option to actually edit every 1/1000 file, and print it, either at home, or in a minilab (and my minilab accepts Adobe DNGs with edits for printing).
This allows me to do all that, albeit in a kludgy way, and not have use Adobe software I’m not supposed to install in the corporate laptop that I mostly use, unless the company pays for it.
People are free to use binaries and code for anything they want; licence is MIT-0. Contributions to the GitHub project are welcome, both issues and PRs.
Nothing significant has changed, so I haven’t published new builds, but you just want me to update dependencies and rebuild, file an issue on GitHub.
I have kids, a challenging full-time job, some other OS packages to maintain, and, regrettably, I haven’t had the time for more. I wish I did, because every year my unedited photos pile up, and I remind myself “there has to be a better way.” I haven’t found it though (IMO) and haven’t been able to fix it myself (for myself, which is the goal).
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Made a new release: https://github.com/ncruces/RethinkRAW
New features:
- updated dependencies
- Homebrew and Scoop installers
- a server mode that allows you to run this over a network
Server mode is something I wanted to do for a while. Install this on my “home server”, which has all my photos, edit from a (work) laptop that I can’t even install anything on.
Enjoy (or not)!
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Bravo, I just tried this new version. Interesting, it works well.
An easy way to compare the results obtained by DT and those by ACR.
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I finally got round to porting RethinkRAW to Linux.
It requires a working version of Adobe DNG Converter running under Wine, but that’s pretty much it. No further configuration necessary, it should just work.
You can download the latest release from:
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Thank you - I tried it under macOS 11.7, but it does not open (“is damaged and cannot be opened”). Any hint?
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To run on macOS, applications must be signed by Apple, otherwise they’re considered “damaged” by default. This process costs around $100/year, and requires some paperwork that I don’t intend to go through at this time, for what’s essentially a hobby. I’m sorry.
It used to be possible to bypass this safety check by simply ctrl-clicking (instead of double-clicking) the app to open it. That doesn’t seem possible anymore.
If you want to run the app anyway, there are 3 remedies, all of which require using the Terminal:
- use Homebrew
to install the app:
–brew install ncruces/tap/rethinkraw - use
curlto download the dmg, then install the app:
–curl -L https://github.com/ncruces/RethinkRAW/releases/latest/download/RethinkRAW.dmg > ~/Desktop/RethinkRAW.dmg - remove the quarantine flag from the app after installing it:
–xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RethinkRAW.app
It’s totally understandable if you don’t want to mess with any of these. These security measures are put in place to prevent spreading of malware. Unfortunately, hobbyists are caught in the process.
Edit: being open source, the other alternative is to download and build directly from source, which is actually very easy as long as you have Go.