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Oh, they might have a bigger problem than that:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/raw#Verb

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapee#Noun

It's the rapist finder .com but even worse

Why on earth would someone choose a name like this?!

> RawTherapee was originally written by Gábor Horváth of Budapest, Hungary. The name "Therapee" was originally an acronym derived from "The Experimental Raw Photo Editor".

I wouldn't be surprised if the author (Hungarian has the same etymology for therapist, therapy etc.) thought therapee means therapy or perhaps therapist. Because RawTherapist would make sense as a name.

There's a fork of RawTherapee that solves the name problem, except they named it ART which is completely undiscoverable. Some projects are just cursed with bad naming, I think.

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/63690246

You joke, but every time I see this product mentioned my brain thinks it's some sort of trendy alternative medicine thing that's made from cow urine or something before I remember it's a photo processing tool.

I guess the name is memorable, at least.

It's following in the footsteps of the gimp, which is probably not a name which would have been chosen today.

Whenever I see that name, I think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8kPqAV_74M

Let's pour one out for the naming of yesteryear, today's realm of acceptability is just soooooooo bland

Except for Coq.... you can carry on, good sir

Before clicking, I legitimately thought this was going to be some sort of urine analysis med tech startup. What is the reasoning behind this product naming? Does therapee mean something in photography?

Let me guess, a startup "claiming that it had devised urine tests that required very small amounts of urine and that could be performed rapidly and accurately, all using compact automated devices which the company had developed." with a surprisingly young and ambitious founder?

Considering the capabilities, and the quality of the results you get, this software is a true gem with darktable.

I love and use both of them with great results.

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