ART (Another RawTherapee) is cross-platform raw image processing program.
ART is a derivative of the popular RawTherapee, trading a bit of customization and control over various processing parameters for a simpler and (hopefully) easier to use interface, while still maintaining the power and quality of RawTherapee.
This is free and open source software.
ART differs from RawTherapee in the following respects:
- The user interface and the underlying processing pipeline have been significantly restructured, with many tools removed, some new tools added, and several tools rewritten and/or refactored.
- Various new tools for performing local edits have been added, with support for various masking modes (both drawn and parametric).
- A new automatic perspective correction tool (taken from darktable) has been added.
- Better metadata handling (thanks to the exiv2 and exiftool libraries), with (optional) support for reading and writing XMP sidecar files.
- Support for using LibRaw for decoding raw files.
- Support for ACES CLF LUTs using OpenColorIO.
- Support for CTL scripts using the ACES CTL interpreter.
- Star ratings and colour labels can be loaded and stored from/to XMP sidecar files.
- Snapshots are now permanent, saved in the processing profiles.
- Processing profiles have .arp extension instead of .pp3, to avoid conflicts with RawTherapee.
- The “inspector mode” tool of the file browser has been significantly enhanced.
Website: bitbucket.org/agriggio/art/src/master
Support:
Developer: Alberto Griggio, Daniel Catalina, Jean-Christophe Frisch, and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
ART is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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|---|---|
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| ART | Fork of RawTherapee |
| ansel | Fork of Darktable |
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| vkdt | Workflow toolbox for raw stills and video |
| DNGLab | Camera RAW utility and DNG converter |
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how to install ART in linux
Depends on your distro. But the project provides a binary release, or you can compile the source code.
Linux Mint 20.3…
ART – installing latest versions on Debian or Ubuntu
sudo apt install build-essential cmake curl git libcanberra-gtk3-dev libexiv2-dev libexpat-dev libfftw3-dev libglibmm-2.4-dev libgtk-3-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev libiptcdata0-dev libjpeg-dev liblcms2-dev liblensfun-dev libpng-dev librsvg2-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev libtiff5-dev zlib1g-dev
wget https://bitbucket.org/agriggio/art/raw/master/tools/build-art -O build-art
chmod +x build-art
./build-art
Error… error… error…
If you can’t build it, use the binary release available from the project’s code repository.