UPDATE!
I'm attaching a new batch of
non-pixel shift processing profiles with some minor updates. The
tone curve has been slightly retweaked from the last time & I'm experimenting with
luminance curve detail &
median filter settings. Trying to remove specks while still trying to keep fine detail.
Before deleting your old profiles, download these & give them a try. I only have the non-pixel shift ones at the moment. The previous set of
pixel shift processing profiles remain the same.
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How to install the processing profiles so that they show up in RawTherapee's Processing Profiles section.
Download the the appropriate processing profiles. Extract the folder(s) out of the zip to your desktop or wherever you want.
Once you are done installing RawTherapee, you will need to navigate to RawTherapee's "profiles" folder. Basically the path to the folder should look something like this. It might be named a little different depending on how you installed it, but you get the gist of it.
WINDOWS (need to have administrator privileges)
C:\Program Files\RawTherapee\
profiles LINUX (need to have root privileges like using "gksudo nautilus" in Ubuntu for example)
usr/share/rawtherapee/
profiles
Once you navigate to the "
profiles" folder where you'll see "
BW", "
Faded", "
Generic", "
Pop", "
Portrait", etc. folders, place the folder(s) that you extracted from the zip(s) inside the the same "
profiles" folder. That is all. Windows might ask you for a confirmation.
It gets a bit more trickier in Linux 'cause you have to set folder permissions or else RawTherapee won't start or if it does start, you might not be able to select your processing profiles. The easiest thing I have found to do is to copy one of the existing folders, rename it, delete its contents, & paste the processing profiles into it. The Linux heads will know what to do.
If you can't install the processing profiles into that "
profiles" folder for whatever reason, then just manually load the profiles that you want to use by pressing the "folder" button right next the area where you select the processing profiles on the upper right hand side in RawTherapee. You navigate to wherever you placed the processing profiles at.
But wait! What do the processing profiles do? They are a good starting point for developing pictures. Instead of fumbling around with the all the options trying to figure out the optimal setting, these profiles have the settings kind of figured out for you. Once you select the appropriate processing profile, you can start tweaking color, exposure, or whatever else to your liking.
Remember that the PIXEL SHIFT processing profiles are for Pixel Shifted images. You'll get weird looking images if you use them on non-Pixel Shifted images. You can use the regular processing profiles on Pixel Shifted images, but you're not going to get the clean Pixel Shifted image. It will look like a regular image.