Waveform histogram

[heckflosse (Ingo Weyrich)]

@Sunhillow

And big thanks for implementing all kind of useful tools!

Don’t thank me, thank @Lawrence37, who implemented waveform and vectorscope for RT and he’s the one who can give you better answers for this than me.

[mbs (Miguel B)]

@Sunhillow

Now my task will be to understand what it indicates

This is a good explanation: How to Use and Read the Four Primary Video Scopes

I just compiled the latest dev, and the new scopes seem to be working great. These are very useful tools, thanks @Lawrence37!

[ggbutcher (Glenn Butcher)]

@heckflosse

Don’t thank me, thank @Lawrence37, who implemented waveform and vectorscope for RT and he’s the one who can give you better aswers for this than me.

Oh, but you’re the first one to provide an explanation that made sense to me…

[Sunhillow (Hansgeorg)]

@heckflosse

Don’t thank me, thank @Lawrence37, who implemented waveform and vectorscope for RT

Of course, @Lawrence37! Great work
(and one of @heckflosse’s latest merits were earned with the excellent capture sharpening tool)

[heckflosse (Ingo Weyrich)]

@Sunhillow

and one of @heckflosse’s latest merits were earned with the excellent capture sharpening tool

Thank you for this words

[heckflosse (Ingo Weyrich)]

Have a look at the latest video from Andy. Very good!

Raw Therapee 5.9 Preview: SCOPES - AWESOME Waveform & Vector Scopes

[Andy_Astbury1 (Andy Astbury)]

Cheers Ingo

RT has always been brilliant but these have made it stratospheric - colour just got silly-simple thanks to @Lawrence37

[Thanatomanic (Roel)]

Hi @Andy_Astbury1 thanks for the nice tutorial on the waveform and scopes! You’re a great ambassador for RT to the public
Did you know you can also click-and-drag on the canvas of the scope and waveform itself to change the brightness? Might save you the hassle to click the small slider.

Also, on a more fundamental note, what is the advantage of using the RGB curves when setting the skin tones? My first instinct would be to go for a hue related tool, in L*a*b* probably since it behaves nicely (mostly) linear. And would a properly white balanced shot with a grey card even need this adjustment step?

[McCap]

Where can I find 5.9 dev??
Or whatever it is called…the one with the waveforms…

[Jade_NL (Jacques)]

You can get it (read: clone/pull and build it yourself) from GitHub:

Beep6581/RawTherapee

Instructions on how to build from source can be found at the bottom of the above linked page. I’m on Linux (Debian 10) and it compiles/builds without any problems.

I’m not aware of there being an appimage or nightly build for the development version. See next post by @XavAL

PS: At the moment of writing this I’m not able to reach the RawPedia website (temporarily down?)

[XavAL (Xavier Bartol)]

If I’m not wrong, you can download development version appimages from here: Release Automated Builds · Beep6581/RawTherapee · GitHub

[Andy_Astbury1 (Andy Astbury)]

@Thanatomanic

You’re a great ambassador for RT to the public

You’re too kind Roel

@Thanatomanic

Did you know you can also click-and-drag on the canvas of the scope and waveform itself to change the brightness? Might save you the hassle to click the small slider.

Now that’s something I didn’t know - useful tip thank you.

@Thanatomanic

Also, on a more fundamental note, what is the advantage of using the RGB curves when setting the skin tones

Only one - trying to keep it real simple. Anyone with a long history of Lr/Ps will be familiar with RGB curves and will understand this method pretty much straight away.

@Thanatomanic

would a properly white balanced shot with a grey card even need this adjustment step?

Depends on how much you trust your lighting and grey card! But it would be a wise move to go through the motions just to check everything - IMO of course…paying clients can be quite picky! And here I’m thinking cosmetic product shots and pantone matching more than your standard portrait sitting.

Cheers Roel