Develop & Develop RAW Tool

The Develop Raw tool in Aperty is essential for processing raw images. It offers precise control over various adjustments to enhance the look of your portrait. It includes sections for camera profile selection, white balance correction, and light adjustments, all of which aim to provide the best base for further editing.

Camera Profile Section This section lets you choose how colors and tones are rendered based on your camera's profile.

• Camera Profile Dropdown: This dropdown selects the color profile to interpret the raw image. By default, Aperty is selected, which provides a balanced interpretation of colors and tones. You can switch to other profiles depending on your camera or desired look to better match your vision for the portrait.

White Balance Section White balance is crucial for ensuring that skin tones and colors in the portrait appear natural and true to life.

• As Shot: This option retains the white balance settings captured by the camera when shooting, it serves as the default starting point.

• Temperature: Adjusts the warmth or coolness of the portrait. Moving the slider to the right (higher temperature) adds warmth (yellow tones) while moving it to the left (lower temperature) cools the image (blue tones). Use this to correct or enhance the overall mood of your portrait.

• Tint: Fine-tunes the color balance by shifting the tint between green and magenta. This adjustment is useful for correcting any unwanted color casts and ensuring that skin tones look natural.

Light Section The Light section offers detailed control over the tonal range, helping you to achieve the perfect exposure and contrast for your portrait.

• Exposure: Adjusts the overall brightness of the image. Increasing the exposure brightens the portrait while decreasing it darkens the overall image. This is useful for correcting underexposed or overexposed shots.

• Contrast: Controls the difference between light and dark areas. Increasing contrast makes the highlights brighter and the shadows darker, adding depth to the portrait. Lowering contrast gives a softer, more even look.

• Highlight: Adjust the brightest areas of the image. Lowering this slider reduces brightness in these areas to recover details in highlights (such as bright skin or shiny hair), while raising it makes the highlights more prominent.

• Shadows: Controls the dark areas of the image. Raising the shadows brings out details in darker regions of the portrait while lowering the shadows deepens them for more contrast.

• Whites: Specifically affects the brightest whites in the image, helping you control highlight clipping. Raising this brightens the whites while lowering it can bring back lost detail in overexposed areas.

• Blacks: Adjusts the darkest parts of the portrait. Lowering the slider makes shadows deeper and more dramatic while raising it lightens the blacks and reveals more detail in shadowed areas.

Adjust the White Balance to ensure accurate skin tones when working with raw portraits. Then, use the Light section to fine-tune the exposure and contrast, keeping an eye on Highlights and Shadows to preserve important details in the face and background without losing depth.