I photograph stage productions where the lighting varies from scene to scene - to differentiate between indoors, outdoors, sunshine, dusk, etc. Although this works for the audiences it does not work in photographs where costumes and skin tones change color.
White balance is all I want to alter in RT. All the rest I will do from exported TIFFs in Picture Window Pro.
Can anyone explain a good workflow so I can do this quickly? I’ll start with thumbnails in a browser page. To find a good image to pick a good white point I need to go into edit and click on the chosen spot. Presumably I then go back into browse and copy that profile with CTL C and CTL V.
What the best way to lay out the screen for a speedy routine?
I’d recommend copying only the white balance by ctrl clicking the copy icon (top right) whilst in edit mode and checking only the whitebalance checkbox. Then switch back to file browser, select all relevant images and paste the copied profile settings.
All images can then be exported with your pasted whitebalance.
You right click on an image and choose “Copy”. Then you select multiple target images, right click and choose “Paste - partial”. Then a similar PopUp opens like the one for saving a partial pp3 …
Your raw image is flat (and possibly needs brightness/exposure added to it in post) by default.
I don’t want to be that guy (but i guess I will be), but RawTherapee is a very powerful and capable tool. You can get a lot more out of it than just white balance.
