The other 20% of my photos are usually those that have more dynamic range, dark corners where I want to seek details, or other reason that make me want to use the RAW. For these, I then delete the RW2 file, and only keep the original SOOC JPG and the PP3 processing file as archive. I now first work on the JPG in rawtherapee, and for a good 80% of my photos just simple ajustments yield a finished image to my liking. In the beginning I used to work first on the RAW file, only to find after some work that my finished work wasn't as good as the SOOC JPG! I record both, but I am far from being expert on RAW editing with rawtherapee. Now on the question of waste of space to record both, here is my take on this. If I understand correctly, it uses the JPG image that is imbedded in the raw file. If you try it and/or think I've left out anything important, let me now.ġst, one doesn't need to record both RAW and JPG for the above to work. But most of the time, the images look identical to me.

You may also notice that the distortion correction might give a bit different result than what the camera does (in my experience, it's usually better in RawTherapee). I don't like the camera's noise reduction anyway, and prefer to just enable it for images that really need it. There may still be differences, like noise reduction (which is not enabled with the above profile). Notice I said 'almost perfectly' in step 3. Then in RawTherapee's settings, set the standard profile for RAW files to this profile. I have called it 'DCP tone curve without vignette corr.pp3'. To have the above PP3 profile be applied automatically for every image, save it in the profiles directory (~/.config/RawTherapee/profiles).

Now to match the SOOC JPEG almost perfectly, you will have to adjust a few settings: use the DCP's tone curve, use neutral exposure settings in the Exposure module, enable distortion correction, disable vignetting correction (if it's off on your camera as well) and enable CA correction.After doing this, the option 'Camera-specific color profile' will be selected for images made with this camera. I had to rename the file to 'Panasonic DMC-G80.dcp' for RawTherapee to pick it up (it will automatically look for files that have the same name as the camera model in the EXIF info). I prefer to have this done automatically, so I copied my favourite profile (Panasonic DMC-G8 Camera Standard.dcp) to the 'dcpprofiles' directory (on Linux: ~/.config/RawTherapee/dcpprofiles for other platforms, see ). However, you'd have to do this manually for every photo. dcp files for your camera anywhere and use them by opening the Color tab, clicking Color Management and then manually select the DCP profile. Instructions on getting these profiles can be found here: Get one or more DCP profiles for your camera by copying it from the Adobe DNG Converter.Since RawTherapee introduced the 'Auto-Matched Tone Curve' feature, it has become pretty easy to come fairly close to the SOOC image, but I noticed certain colours (especially highly saturated blue) would still be rendered a bit differently, and the tone-curve matching algorithm seems to have problems when your input has blown highlights.Īfter a while, I found out that you can get a closely matching image by using a DCP profile. I like to start my RAW editing process with an image that closely matches the JPEG output of the camera.

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