07/10/2026
Inspired by a friend of mine, Mark Adams over at One Camera One Lens, I thought I'd try out Rapid RAW, a new Open Source photo editing tool by Timon Kach. The version I am using is 1.6.5 which is the latest version. In all honesty I didn't expect much from such an immature program but I was blown away by how good this tool is. Global editing, masking and local editing, community presets, cropping, transforms, optics and camera settings and an excellent export tool, all working perfectly. It even offers noise reduction but I haven't yet tried this yet. It's an absolute doddle to use if you are familiar with any type of photo editing software but I am guessing that even for those with limited post-processing experience, it won't be overly daunting. In fact, for many of the photographers I know, I suspect that this will the perfect editing tool. Best of all, it's 100% free. Yep, you read that right, zilch, nada, rien, free! Visit https://www.getrapidraw.com/ for more information and to download.