RawTherapee — Raw imagr processor for all platforms

Do watch this series for more information on my adventure with Windows in Dubai and Photography….

For the impatient ones, download the application here.

Recently I was stuck with a Windows only laptop for a months time and I was in Dubai. Went to Dubai Aquarium and Underwater Zoo there and as usual took the photos in RAW mode with my D5000 Nikon camera. Alas, now I did not have a decent application to modify the images. On my Fedora system I use UFraw and the hunt began for a decent and somewhat advanced software for windows. Couple of them looked promising like Picasa, FastStone Image viewer but nothing comparable to UFRaw until I remembered anothe one that I used RawTherapee (BTW, UFRaw port for cygwin is there but I was not able to install it on cygwin, the server was not reachable). So, here is the features of this pretty good image editor having the capability to edit RAW images.

Making your subjects more prominent and stand out in the photos with gimp.

Lets first take a picture that we want to modify. We have done the corrections in the photo that are required like the curves, <a class="zem_slink" title="Colorfulness" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorfulness">saturation and others. So, here is the photo after the modification. Now we will make the modification to make photo de-saturated other than the subject of interest.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/gallery/home/DSC_0018.jpg"><img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/gallery/home/DSC_0018.jpg" alt="DSC_0018" />

Okay, now fire up gimp and open the <a class="zem_slink" title="Image" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image">image in gimp.Once the image is open, on the left bottom of the image, you will see a square. Click on the square and the whole image will become red. Now, select eraser tool and erase the color from the subject of interest.

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