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On 7/28/21 3:37 PM, Mica Semrick wrote:
> There is an option in darktable to view the edit you've made instead of
> the embedded jpeg in the light table view. So Light room isn't the only one.
In RawTherapee, it's like Gimp: you view all modifications on rawfile
when you are editing it.
You open raw file, edit it and export as png. For me it's just the
normal way :)

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> -m
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> On July 28, 2021 3:36:50 AM PDT, Olivier Croquette <ocroquette at free.fr>
> wrote:
>
>     On 27/07/2021 13:14, Øystein Andresen-Sund wrote:
>>     Most RAW applications do this, including Adobe Lightroom (unless
>>     you go to edit mode). Rendering directly from RAW would slow down
>>     the viewing and browsing process considerably and you would
>>     probably see an image with different colors than what you see in
>>     your camera.
>>     Try using RawTherapee or Darktable for RAW processing.
>
>     Lightroom does something that neither DK, RT or DT do: it caches the
>     processed image, so that it is what I see when browsing. It is the
>     best of both world: displaying is quick, but I see what matters to
>     me. Once I have defined processing settings in RT or DT, the
>     embedded preview in the RAW file is completely irrelevant and can
>     even more hurt than it helps if the processing changes the image
>     substantially, for instance major cropping.
>
>     Questions to the developers: would it be thinkable to call RT or DT
>     to render the image, and store this as preview in the DK database,
>     instead of the embedded one?
>
>


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