So now let’s move on to the Black and White tool.

It does help a bit and I don’t want to overdo it as it has consequences on the whole image. RawTherapee – Converting to Black and White 3 I’m going to try the highlight compression slider to see if that can help with it a bit. There’s a bit of a highlight issue on the orange pot. I’ve pushed the basil leaves a BIT too far on the saturation, but I think that’s probably going to work out good for me in black and white. Overall, I like to get a picture I would like as a color picture before I go black and white.

RawTherapee – Converting to Black and White 2 Now I’m going to take a look at the contrast and saturation. It seems pretty similar (to my eyes) to the real thing. I’m going to skip adjusting the white balance, because I like how the camera did it. I make a slight adjustment to the midtones. So let’s start off on the Exposure Panel and look at the Exposure Compensation slider. It’s not as crucial with this image, but I just wanted to test out the feature. Too often I’m stuck zooming in and out of an image to check various parts of the image as I make changes. I’ve activated here one of my favorite features RawTherapee has that Lightroom does not, two windows showing just a small region up close.

RawTherapee – Converting to Black and White 1 I wanted to document my process for getting to a black and white photo that I like both as a tutorial of sorts, but also to document for myself how it works with RawTherapee. Issues with tags and titles aside, I am really liking RawTherapee so far as my Lightroom RAW processing replacement.

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