This site documents a modern RAW photography workflow built on open standards, file-based metadata and open-source tools – and the tech that makes them possible.
Sometimes things grow quietly. My daughter Jessy recently put a small collection of her painted artworks on Printler. No announcement, no fuss, just pieces she made and decided to share. Her Printler shop sits there like a compact digital gallery. Clean layout, simple navigation, clear previews. You can choose sizes, framing options, different finishes. It’s... Continue Reading →
5 minutes read time ****** START TELEGRAM ***** ----- 1914 - BARNACK - WETZLAR - STOP -UR-LEICA - FIRST - PORTABLE - 35MM - STOP -EISENMARKT - FIELD - TEST - STOP -IT - WORKS - STOP -PHOTOGRAPHY - CHANGES - FOREVER - STOP ----- ***** END TELEGRAM ***** The photo above gives an impression... Continue Reading →
GIMP 3, Broken Plugins, and Why Your Old AppImage Finally Gave UpWhen GIMP 3.0 first arrived, the rule was simple: if you needed plugins, don’t touch it. The new release had a completely rewritten plug-in system, Python 2 was gone, the API had changed, and none of the classic add-ons like Resynthesizer, Heal Selection, G’MIC,... Continue Reading →
A commercially-interested guy told me: most popular LUTs barely make it past 5,000 to 30,000 downloads. Anything above 50,000 is already considered “exploded,” “blew up,” or “viral-ish” in the community. So yes - I’m rather proud of this one. Which is exactly why I’m back here again with that one LUT. And don’t worry -... Continue Reading →
Update 13/10/25 - Just back from a few days of bushcraft. As any camper knows, setup and teardown take time - and so does unpacking the Land Rover, cleaning gear, and storing everything for the next adventure. In short, I’ll be off the radar for a bit, catching up before visiting fellow photographers’ sites or... Continue Reading →
Some time ago I wrote a couple of pieces on recreating the Polaroid SX-70 look inside your photo editor (like Rawtherapee), later followed by how to turn that look into a cross-platform LUT, and - because not everyone enjoys fiddling around - for the “make-it-easy” crowd, a ready-made PictureFX Polaroid SX-70 LUT. We also talked... Continue Reading →
Part Two: From Identity Files to Cross-Platform LUTs In part one, we built a “film simulation” inside RawTherapee by tweaking the Tone Curve, Channel Mixer, and Color Toning. Those adjustments were saved as a RawTherapee preset with the familiar .pp3 extension. That’s fine if you only ever work in RT. Load a neutral RAW (preferably... Continue Reading →
Polaroid SX-70. Anyone who ever pulled a stack of old prints from a shoebox knows the look: faded contrast, colors drifting toward olive and cream, a touch of timeless imperfection. That’s what we wanted to bring back - not through a filter or gimmick preset, but by actually building it as a LUT. The goal... Continue Reading →
3 minutes read time Well, my first 100 days of running the new PictureFX LUTs download site on picturefx.itch.io are behind me. The obvious first question: did anyone even show up - let alone download something? Surprisingly, yes. Considering I also use freshluts.com and traffic is split between the two, plus the fact that I’m... Continue Reading →
5 minutes read time If you remember the last article, ‘Chasing the Aurora: Overlay Experiments with Northern Lights’, you’ll recall that while the results were more or less okay, there were definitely some flaws—mainly with the overlay technique itself. I first came across this method years ago from Trey Ratcliff, who used it—probably in Adobe—to... Continue Reading →
Reading time: 7 minutes. Recently, my fellow blogger and good friend Mark G Adams from One Camera One Lens – https://onecameraonelens.com/ – mentioned an alternative version of RawTherapee: ART.ART is indeed just as powerful, but it offers a slightly simpler interface compared to the standard RT version - So I thought, why not discuss all... Continue Reading →
Renowned photographer and creator Mark G. Adams, founder of OneCameraOneLens.com, has once again dazzled the photography community with his latest innovation: Film Recipes for Nikon cameras. With a reputation already established through his exceptional Fujifilm Recipes, Adams has now turned his focus back to his old love, Nikon, reigniting the magic of film simulation recipes.... Continue Reading →
Featured picture is the skyline of Antwerp during the Tall Ships Race in 2016, old photos are also worth reviving, dreaming of those beautiful memories of when it was still "different". Now it seemed worthwhile to "color" them or should I say decolorize them.I have used the Agfa 200X in Cube format in Darktable here.... Continue Reading →
Also the cover picture for the month of February, developing RAW with Rawtherapee / Artherapee, with Agfa Black and White Film Simulation.We have four scripts in one download this time. Agfa 200X and Agfapan 25,100 and 400. Download belowThey are what I call "mini scripts" because they are clean and contain only what is needed.On... Continue Reading →
Today I'm going to take a closer look at how to work with curves.Because I can imagine that many wonder how you actually make such a curve, and especially how you adjust it.Actually this is not difficult at all, Rawtherapee even has a tool to help you with that. First of all : the purpose... Continue Reading →
