If you have a photo opened in an Editor tab and you make changes to it from the File Browser, the changes are reflected immediately in the Editor tab. 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: