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Welcome to the home page of ART, a free, open-source, 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.
Downloads
Source code
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The latest stable version is available at: https://bitbucket.org/agriggio/art/downloads/
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Source code of the current development version is available at: https://bitbucket.org/agriggio/art/src
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Starting from version 1.8.2, the release files are digitally signed with PGP. The signatures can be verified with following key stored in the OpenPGP keyserver: https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/942FCFB1CBE1E38928A1A6BEA94D951156835A5D
Binaries
- Starting from version 1.24, binaries are available at: https://github.com/agriggio/ART-releases/releases
3rd-party binaries (nightly builds and/or optimized builds for specific architectures)
- Optimized Windows binaries: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PiiTzfY1uSD8nV3bzgKDAR4o2aVZUJMS
- Packages for openSUSE:
- Tumbleweed: the package is part of the main repo-oss repository, so it can be easily installed with
sudo zypper in ART
- Leap 15.x: the package resides in the
graphics
OBS repository, so to install it a few extra steps are needed. First you need to install opi, the OBS package manager, withsudo zypper in opi
, and then you can install ARTsudo opi ART
. Please report any installation/runtime bug here.
- Tumbleweed: the package is part of the main repo-oss repository, so it can be easily installed with
- Packages for ArchLinux and derivates (via AUR): https://clttr.info/art-aur
- Experimental Mac OSX builds (please test!): https://art.r42.us/
Features
At a first glance, ART appears very similar to RawTherapee. Compared to the latter, ART differs in the following main aspects:
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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.
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Various new tools for performing local edits have been added, with support for various masking modes (both drawn and parametric).
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A new automatic perspective correction tool (taken from darktable) has been added.
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Better metadata handling (thanks to the exiv2 and exiftool libraries), with (optional) support for reading and writing XMP sidecar files.
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Support for using LibRaw for decoding raw files.
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Support for ACES CLF LUTs using OpenColorIO.
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Support for CTL scripts using the ACES CTL interpreter.
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Star ratings and colour labels can be loaded and stored from/to XMP sidecar files.
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Snapshots are now permanent, saved in the processing profiles.
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Processing profiles have
.arp
extension instead of.pp3
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The "inspector mode" tool of the file browser has been significantly enhanced.
Status
The current version is 1.24. It was released on October 4th 2024. Change log.
Contact
Documentation
"Official" documentation:
Other documentation sources ("unofficial", not maintained by the project):
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Troubleshooting lens corrections support: Windows, Linux AppImage
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ART French community website, with links, tutorials, and forum for French-speaking users.
Video demos
Compilation instructions
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For other systems, see RawPedia. The only difference between compiling RawTherapee and ART is that ART depends also on exiv2 and (optionally, but highly recommended) LibRaw, OpenColorIO and the CTL interpreter.
License
ART is released under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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