After a year of active development release of a program for organizing and processing digital photos . Darktable acts as a free alternative to Adobe Lightroom and specializes in non-destructive work with raw images. Darktable provides a large selection of modules for performing various photo processing operations, allows you to maintain a database of source photos, visually navigate through existing images and, if necessary, perform distortion correction and quality improvement operations, while maintaining the original image and the entire history of operations with it. Project code licensed under GPLv3. Binary assemblies for Windows and macOS, and for Linux Π² .
Main changes:
- Complete redesign of the interface and transition to GTK/CSS. All interface elements can now be controlled using CSS themes. Prepared a series of themes optimized for low and high resolution monitors: darktable, darktable-elegant-darker, darktable-icons-darker, darktable-elegant-dark, darktable-elegant-grey, darktable-icons-dark, darktable-icons gray. The requirements for the minimum version of GTK have been raised to 3.22.
- The change history now shows previously hidden "system" modules. The status of modules in the history is displayed with an icon.
- Support for reordering modules in the order applied to the image (Ctrl+Shift+Drag).
- Support for assigning hotkeys to individual sliders. For example, exposure compensation controls. This opens up the possibility for quick editing using specialized consoles.
- Lighttable undo/redo support for labels, color labels, ratings, metadata, edit history, and applied styles.
- Support for bitmap masks (a special type of parametric mask).
- The image feed and histogram modes have been redesigned.
- Added color saving mode to the base curve module. Attention! This mode is on by default (in Lightness mode) and can noticeably change the appearance of newly imported files compared to JPEG files created by the camera.
- New versions of the "film tone curve" and "tone equalizer" modules. The modules provide powerful imaging tools and can completely replace the Base Curve, Shadows and Highlights, and Tone Mapping modules. The interface of the modules is very complicated, so it is easier to get acquainted with the logic of work on real examples from .
- The profile noise suppression module has been redesigned. Added support for new camera profiles.
- New "3D Color Lookup Tables" module with support for PNG Hald-CLUT and Cube formats. The most popular free set of CLUTs can be downloaded from , and the details of the work can be found .
- A new "basic settings" module that allows you to quickly adjust the black, white and gray points, change the saturation and automatically calculate the exposure of the image.
- New "RGB Levels" and "RGB Tone Curve" modules that support working with individual channels in RGB space, in addition to the already existing modules that work in Lab space.
- The Color Picker tool in the Blending, Tone Curve, Color Zones, and Glow modules that supports sampling the average value over a selected area (Ctrl+Click on the eyedropper icon).
- Support for quick search of modules by name.
- Added image culling mode (pairwise comparison).
- Added export metadata settings dialog that allows you to manage the export of Exif data, tags, their hierarchy and geotagging data.
- Migrated from POSIX threads to OpenMP.
- Made multiple optimizations for SSE and OpenCL.
- Added support for over 30 new cameras.
- Support for the new Google Photo API with the ability to create albums directly from darktable (does not work at the moment due to blocking by Google).
- A significantly revised user manual will be published shortly.
Source: opennet.ru