Raw Therapee

Infobox_Software
name = Raw Therapee



caption = Raw Therapee 2.4m1 screenshot
developer = Gábor Horváth
latest_release_version = 2.4 milestone 1
latest_release_date = 23 April 2008
operating_system = Cross platform
language = Multilingual
genre = Raw image processing
license = Freeware
website = [http://www.rawtherapee.com/ www.rawtherapee.com]

Raw Therapee is a cross platform raw image processing software, released as freeware. It is written in C using a GTK+ frontend and dcraw by Gábor Horváth of Budapest, Hungary. The name stands for "The Experimental Raw Photo Editor". Some of its features include [http://www.rawtherapee.com/ Raw Therapee website] ] :

* Processing algorithms, especially those for demosaicing and highlight recovery, can rival commercial products [ [http://www.rawtherapee.com/RAW_Compare/ Comparison of various RAW demosaicing methods] ] .
* Images are processed with 16 bits per channel.
* Generous set of tools for modifying colors in the CIELab space, including exposure, curve adjustments, color enhancement, etc.
* Correction for chromatic aberration, vignetting, and distortion.
* Available in Czech, Deutsch, English, Espanol, Italian, Latvian, Magyar, Nederlands, Polish, Russian, Slovak, and Swedish.

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