![]() I don't know if what I wrote is of any help. At least that's what happens in my case, sometimes. Compare also the day after, sometimes "eye fatigue" makes you think sharpen is better, but later when you review sharpened images, you may think it's too much. If not sure, sharpen slightly, and compare sharpened and unsharpened versions. Check the result in normal viewing conditions, if you like the result then don't sharpen. Just try to process your images with no sharpening at first. When I photograph people (portraits or models), I tend to not sharpen at all currently. Regarding sharpening, it depends on taste, and on the scene. Just install the regular version, unless you need to experiment with local adjustments (Local_Lab) or dehazing/shadows recover (Retinex). I recommend to always try the latest version (as found on my Google Drive, link in my signature) as it is always improving (new features, bugs fixed). Is it therefore recommendable for me to zoom in a photo 100-200% and apply sharpness up till te point to where halo's and edge enhancement start appearing? I know a lot of people I think are inclined to apply (too much) sharpness, just take a look at televisions. I find it also difficult to pinpoint how much sharpness I 'd need to apply. I am foremost interested in post processing to get the best natural image quality (exposure, sharpness etc.) while maintaining the natural look (as seen by my eyes), not so much post processing in a sense to be more of an image editor and changing the whole feeling and circumstances of a photo and applying a lot of 'artsy' changes. master (the main program, without local lab nor retinex, but can be more up-to-date regarding some features and bug corrections) retinex (an algorithm still in development, which can be used for dehazing, and recovering shadows) local lab (adds the possibility of applying contrast/lightness/chromaticity/noise/blur changes locally, with some limitations but it can be helpful) Last word, if you are Windows, you can try my RT builds (link below in my signature), I' try to build the most up-to-date versions, and I provide 3 flavours of the program : Rawtherapee support Adobe LPC profiles, I'm planning to try profiling the lenses I own (Fujinon 35, 18-55 and 55-200mm, and Rokinon/Samyang 12mm f/1.2), if I succeed I'll post the resulting profiles. Sometimes it doesn't do anything and some manual adjustment helps. I saw you find the auto lens correction button, indeed it tries to match lens correction based on the jpeg embeded in the raw files. If I am careful, I don't even need any sharpening because the raw demosaicing algorithm extracts all the detail I need, and Fuji lenses are that good too. I realized that my own workflow evolves constantly, it also depends on the subject of images. I'm late to reply, so it seems you already got a good starting point. After inspection it seems to match the JPEG correction, or at least very much RawTherapee however doesn't do this automatically.ĮDIT: Yeah, found the auto-correction button under distortion correction. I've read that most programs apply lens correction by determining the lens out of the EXIF data. The only lens profiles you can load are these of the X100 and X100s I think, none of the XF and XC lenses are there. ONE important question remains however: how can I get RawTherapee so far as to automatically apply the lens correction. Do people have more advice and or tips? Maybe we can determine a range of basic RawTherapee settings that improve photo's on a more technical level, instead of settings that more influence an artistic aspect of a photograph. This profile is very much based on inquiries on different Fuji sites on the internet and tips of Eric. For higher ISO pictures and more risk at noise you can disable the microcontrast and detail by levels, or even the tone mapping. Gives already a great starting point for pictures with low ISO and noise. enabling microcontrast with a 3x3 matrix and the rest the default values of 20 and 50 enabling contrast by detail levels while using 1.20 for step 0, 1 and 2 and the rest the default values setting sharpening to RL Deconvolution (while changing the setting to radius 0,65 amount to 65 damping to 20 and iterations to 100) instead of unsharpen mask enabling tone mapping with a strength of 0,10 and the rest to the default values setting demosaicing to 3-pass and false colour suppression steps to 1 I am playing a bit with RawTherapee and have found that when you'll start from scratch and applying auto levels in combination with: Thanks everyone, also Eric, for the advice.
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