It offered excellent results, used good quality color gamut profiles (ICC sRGB v.4, for example) and could integrate my camera profiles created by X-Rite ColorChecker. RawTherapee surprised me by its breadth and innovation: an hierarchy of "wavelets" in place of high-pass or calculated edge masks as the basis for sharpening CIECAM02 color-contrast modeling (very impressive). Pixelmator, Acorn? Not targeting this market.
There is an English word "gimp" borrowed from the german 'gimpel' that I think of every time I consider trying it again. Photoline is very powerful, mature, and a bit eccentric: I like it. Serif's Affinity seems OK but still inferior to the ACR-Photoshop system (except on price, of course). Recently I decided (for fun) to take a look at what alternatives were available. Most important for balancing time/effort and results, is that Ming does 70% of his processing in ACR and uses Photoshop for curves, dodging & burning (if needed) and sharpening (all destructively no fiddling with layers). So I subscribed to the Adobe suite and followed the (excellent) advice of Ming Thein ( ) on using a Bridge-ACR-Photoshop processing workflow that produced impressive but naturalistic, sharp results emphasizing the subject/idea of the shot without using elaborate filters and in about 90 seconds per image once you know the ropes. the interface seemed unduly bare, maybe amateurish, and the delay enforced by applying floating-point calculated adjustments was a bit of a pain.
I liked the keyboard controls, but still. Like a lot of people (apparently) I first looked at RPP a year ago when I was trying to avoid the Adobe subscription model but I didn't really understand the choices RPP offered or what it was doing behind the scenes.
I wrote it for myself, but if you're here because you're curious about RPP, it may interest you, too. I've decided to use it to (mostly) replace Adobe Camera Raw. RPP seems to be an outstanding raw processor.
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