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Our goal is to create an image that looks most closely like a real-life view of these plants. Our eyes are the most accurate check, but it can be helpful to keep an eye on the color graph in the top left that shifts when settings are changed. A good rule of thumb is for the peak of the three curves to land near this region of the graph.
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*Laptop screens and Monitor settings will impact what we are working on. Try to always use the same screen when creating color profiles.
Exposure Compensation & Highlight Compression
These two go hand-in-hand. Exposure compensation should always be set to slightly more than Highlight Compression
Lightness
Has a similar effect to Exposure Compensation
Saturation
Toggle keeping in mind the intensity of colors on the color checker.
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Apply, Adjust, Exit
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Before exiting the program, we must apply our profile to the rest of the images within the batch. This can easily be done by:
CRTL+A
Right click
Hovering over Processing profile Operations
Hovering over Apply
Scrolling/Hovering to the desired profile
Selecting profile
Wait for profile to apply to all images
Sometimes applying to all images takes a bit of time to complete. RawTherapee will not allow clicking out of the selected images or scrolling unless it has finished applying to the selected images. We will know what images have had a new profile applied to them by looking for the gray check icon in the upper left corner of the individual image.
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If most images look acceptable and a handful do not, we can choose select images by holding the CTRL key and clicking each image. Once all are selected, find the tab labeled “Batch Edit” on the right-side panel. Stick with toggling the same sliders we changed earlier. Do this until satisfied with the results. No need to re-save anything. As long as every imaged within the folders of our batch have the grey check mark, we are ready to exit RawTherapee and send into the pipeline.
3. Running the pipeline
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When the color profile has been saved, we must send it through the pipeline. Be sure to be navigated to the Field folder and make a new screen, use uppercase r (-R). If returning to an already existing screen, use lowercase r (-r) with the appropriate screen name.
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