If a photo has an associated processing profile, a green check mark will appear over its thumbnail.

When you use the 'force saving current settings to the processing profile' keyboard shortcut from the Editor tab.

When you manually save the processing profile using the Processing Profile Selector panel in the Editor tab.

When you close the current image by closing RawTherapee.

When you close the current image by opening a different image if using Single Editor Tab Mode (SETM).

When you close the current image (the Editor tab) if using Multiple Editor Tabs Mode (METM).

When you apply a processing profile manually or using a dynamic profile.

The processing profile is written to disk: That processing profile also stores all the tool tweaks you made in the Editor tab. Whenever you edit an image, the tool settings you want applied to that image are stored in a processing profile that is particular to that image (ranking information, the history panel contents and snapshots are not stored in these files yet, see issue #473).Īs simply viewing the image requires processing, RawTherapee stores the settings it used to show you the image in a sidecar processing profile. To have it appear there, save it to the 'profiles' folder within the 'config' folder - see the File Paths article to find it. When you make a processing profile which you want to re-use, for example one which works well with your camera and your style, you can save it so that it also appears in the Processing Profile Selector drop-down list, in the 'My profiles' section. They are the ones you see in the Processing Profile Selector drop-down list's 'Bundled profiles' section, in the Image Editor. Their purpose is to give you a good starting point, to demonstrate how the tools can be used together. RawTherapee comes with a bundle of profiles.

Processing profiles come from three quite different sources, though they work in exactly the same way: Or on the processing profile you selected from the right-click context menu if you right-clicked on a thumbnail.Your dynamic processing profile rules, if any.In order to do this, there are many settings which need to be set to something, and what these specific values are depends on: When you open an image for editing, or when a processing profile is assigned, RawTherapee will convert the real raw data into a viewable image.

You apply a dynamic processing profile.You apply a processing profile manually, by using the right-click context menu in the File Browser or Filmstrip.A processing profile is assigned to the image the moment one of these actions are taken: The thumbnails shown for images which have no processing profile assigned (images which have never been opened or edited) are created from the JPEG image embedded in each raw file. When you open a folder with photos in RawTherapee's File Browser for the first time, none of the images will have PP3 sidecar files. They are stored alongside their associated photos, which is why they are also called sidecar files. If you are familiar with other raw processors, you may know their equivalent as 'presets'. Processing profiles (with a PP3 extension for version 3 or PP2 for the older version 2) are text files which contain all of the tool settings which RawTherapee applies to the associated photo. 7 Creating Your Own Processing Profiles.6 Partial Processing Profiles and Fill Modes.

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