How to use the Dehaze tool in RawTherapee

The Haze Removal tool removes atmospheric haze and increases the contrast and saturation. However, often creates over-saturation and an blue cast. In this video we are using two pictures and we correct the colors using the color correction tools.


The details about the algorithm are available here: http://kaiminghe.com/cvpr09/


The pictures used in the video are available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GRnQR3A-dcWUYVmBHWB2ICpzQUDXnmJ_


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