If you shoot anything outside of standard visible light - like deep infrared or UV - you need to know which demosaicing algorithm is actually going to save your image from turning into a colorful mess of artifacts.
Honestly, you can't just click through tutorials for this stuff because everything - from setting the white balance to choosing a demosaicing algorithm - requires manually overriding what the software thinks is right, which means abandoning your favorite easy-to-use program entirely.