Panels Overview

The right side of the editor has seven tabs, each with a single-letter shortcut. The tabs appear in three groups (separated by a divider): Info at the top, the editing tools (Adjust, Crop, Masks, Inpaint) in the middle, and Presets, Export at the bottom. This page is the map.

Adjustments panel showing the histogram at the top, panel-switcher icons on the right, and the Basic section header — The Adjustments panel with the panel-switcher icons running down the right side.

The tabs

The order below mirrors the actual right-panel switcher in RapidRAW.

Group	Shortcut	Tab name	What it's for	Deep dive
Top	`I`	Info	EXIF, GPS map, tags, ratings, color labels.	Metadata
Middle	`D`	Adjust	Basic tone, color, curves, detail, effects (the global edit pipeline).	Basic, Color, Curves, Detail, Effects
Middle	`R`	Crop	Aspect ratios, rotation, straightening, perspective transform, lens correction.	Crop
Middle	`M`	Masks	Local adjustments: AI subject/sky/depth, gradients, brushes, color/luma ranges.	Masks
Middle	`K`	Inpaint	Object removal and quick local masks: Quick Erase, Subject, Foreground, Brush, Linear, Radial.	Inpaint
Bottom	`P`	Presets	Save, apply, organize, import/export looks.	Presets
Bottom	`E`	Export	Format, quality, resize, watermark, batch.	Export

How the panels relate

Adjustments in RapidRAW are non-destructive. Every panel writes to the same .rrdata sidecar. Order of operations doesn't matter visually; RapidRAW always renders the final image from the original RAW plus the full set of adjustments stored in the sidecar, in the canonical pipeline order baked into the GPU shader.

Adjustment visibility (Settings → General)

In Settings → General, you can hide individual adjustment groups inside the Adjust panel. The defaults reflect what most users want to see:

Group	Default	Notes
Chromatic Aberration	Hidden	Manual CA sliders in Detail. Most users rely on Lensfun corrections instead.
Color Calibration	Hidden	Camera-profile-style primaries shifts in Color. Niche tool.
Grain	Visible	The Grain group in Effects.

Hiding a group only removes it from the right-panel UI; any saved values keep being applied at render time.

Working between photos

Right-panel state is per-photo. When you switch photos via the filmstrip or arrow keys, every panel updates to show that photo's settings.

To carry adjustments between photos, use Copy & Paste Settings (Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V); see Copy & Paste Settings. Or save a preset.