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RawTherapee review

Since my Adobe Lightroom expired days ago (and right now it costs almost 200usd on Adobe's main page) I decided look an alternative and give it a chance.

The main alternative I found is RawTherapee



My main preoccupation about was about what happens when I import a Canon Raw 2 (.cr2) image and if it's work correctly.

It works fine!

I been trying like 20 minutes some changes and doing profiles until moment of saving a image THIS happens.
 
I opened again an I found my changes on course, and I didn't lose anything, then I exported my result.

What I found is something I been looking through the edit process that is a BIG NOISE on the image.


Then I make another test on Adobe CameraRaw  
As you see, there is noise but in any way comparable with how RawTherapee manages it.

Conclusion: Since I used the worst possible photo to edit, Adobe manages wide better the noise, doing it some preprocess that never gets same result on an app as RawTherapee. But still I will continue using it because it's not that bad on lighter images.



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