Raw Therapee Basics: Crop Tool Usage & Visualisation Problems - EASY 2 STEP FIX

Raw Therapee Basics: Crop Tool Usage & Visualisation Problems - EASY 2 STEP FIX

So many people have problems with the Crop Tool in Raw Therapee, especially new users coming to Raw Therapee from other applications such as Lightroom.
In this video I show you how to EASILY FIX the crop tool 'visualisation' problems and make it work visually just like the crop tool in Lightroom or Photoshop - or any of the commercially available raw processors.
Can't get rid of the bounding box? Easy Fix!
Still see your 'cropped pixels' ? Easy Fix!

[Rnder]

Nice, thanks Andy. Once you have selected the crop if you shift and hold the click you can move the crop around as well.

[arnoczkyzoltan]

Thank You Sir! I almost lost my mind. God bless you! :)

[KuruGDI]

Good length and straight on the point. Very nice video 😀

[bin]

Thanks for the RawTherapee tutorials. You are truly an knowledgeable ambassador for the software. I would love to see a similar video on resizing an image. And maybe add some workflow tips on resizing and cropping for export to apps like IG. Or would you do those steps in an editing program like Gimp or PS?

[aljo.antony]

Thank you for putting out RawTherapee videos.

Black and white background will affect how the image is going to appear. The same image may look darker with a white background and vice versa. It's a optical illusion. So we can switch the background while editing keeping in mind where the final image is going to end up. If it's in a portfolio with a white background, then we can edit the image with a white background in RawTherapee.

[stewartwilson]

brilliant and fixed that annoying issue when working on a cropped image

[gregjakubowski]

Dammit, Andy! Where was this tip a year ago? It took probably 100 images to figure this crop stuff out.

Well done.

[Deleba]

Thanks Andy, yet another good tip that I probably wouldn't have found by myself.

[lilteacup]

This was helpful, but the intro was really long. I watched the whole thing on 2x and it still felt longer than necessary. But I very much appreciate the content, and I'm guessing you normally do much longer videos. Thanks!

[terrybrooks]

Thanks and LOL 2 years on it's still the same

[lizardltd]

Thank you so much!
Your videos are super helpful!

[Eigil_Skovgaard]

Disturbingly short video. I had just leaned back - and it was over. What now, what am I going to do the next 40 minutes, Andy?
Anyway, it was a good tip - only, I had expected more from that cat.

[fintonmainz]

Thanks for the video. It's still ridiculously complicated.
I just use RT for basic raw editing then finish in another editor. Life's too short.

[AlessandroDiCandia]

Hi Andy thanks for your video. I want to ask you if is possible to move the crop selection if this is in a wrong position. I hope you understand my question.

[benoittissier]

Is there an equivalent to the "done" button ? Almost every time I move my mouse, I accidentally change the crop. Drives me crazy.

[DavidWilliamsA]

I have been using Affinity Photo. In that programme I can set a crop size and crop the image from outside the image area. I set a crop size to 4:5 say (for Instagram) and I am able crop the image so that here is a space either on top and bottom or both sides (depending on the crop ratio.) I can then fill that blank space (usually with black) using the fill tool. This way I do not lose any part of the image. Is this possible in Raw Therapee?

[bidenisasnake]

I've played with most of the pic editors at this point. Options are always good but the simplest things are to damn convoluted