priort
(Todd Prior)
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Rawtherapee now has some of the same tools… its just not presented as “White balance” its packaged as color appearance model.
DIscussed a bit here and I think in much greater detail in a couple of other threads…
Perhaps the implementation and examples here in RT docs will make some sense of it to you…
https://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/CIECAM02#Color_Appearance_&_Lighting_(CIECAM02/16)_et_Color_Appearance_(Cam16_&_JzCzHz)_-_Tutorial